LOL...Ohh how the stories fly around. he, he
That buck was originally photo'd here in MN by a guy just out on a nature walk with a camera. He came up to this creek/small river expecting to get some great shots right after it had just snowed. When he came up to the river, he saw this buck struggling to get out. He could really do nothing, but to sit there and watch. Eventually the buck got tired enough and floated down stream a bit where he found bottom and was able to get out. That's the story in a nut shell. The article explaining it all was in a MN outdoors paper called Outdoor News(
www.outdoornews.com). I can try to find the article to verify it, but it might be tough. That story was out around 3 months ago now.