Payback!
10-06-2004, 10:43 AM
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Payback!
Payback or "what comes around goes around"?
From yesterday's Chicago Tribune (Jeff Long)
Man hurt in tussle with deer files suit
A Harvard (IL) man claims in a lawsuit that an escaped deer from the grounds of a casle under construction in rural McHenry county savagely attacked him last month.
"He was punctured by this deer through his body," said Jay Orlowski, the attorney for Richard Maguire.
Orlowski said the 10-point buck tore off a piece of Maguire's scalp that had to be stapled back into place and caused other injuries requiring more than a dozen stiches.
"Let's put it this way: I'm lucky to be alive," Maguire said about the incident. He declined to comment further because of the lawsuit.
McHenry County Sheriff's Police Captain Glenn Olson confirmed that the Sept. 4 attack sent Maguire to Mercy Hospital anf that the case was turned over to the Illinois department of Natural Resources for investigation.
"He became engaged in a struggle with this deer for 10 or 15 minutes," Olson said. "He became gored by this deer."
No criminal charges have been filed. A resources Department spokesman said the deer has been destroyed.
The deer escaped from the 17500 block of Lincoln Road, according to the lawsuit. The Sheriff's andResources Departments confirm the deer came from there.
"This was a captive deer that had escaped," said Joe Bauer, spokesman for the Resources Department.
Henri Giugni, who is building the castle in Hartland Township with his wife, June, said in an interview that they had raised the deer from the time it was a fawn.
In his lawsuit, Maguire said the deer attacked him as he walked on property he owns on nearby Irish Lane.
Maguire was "repeatedly attacked by a deer which had strayed onro (Maguire's) property," states the lawsuit, filed in McHenry County Circuit Court on Sept. 22.
Maguire suffered external and internal injuries and "has suffered and will in the future suffer pain, has been permanently scarred; has become obligated for large sums of money for medical care and will in the future be obligated for large sums of money for medical care," the suit states.
"If you mishandle the deer, he can be aggressive," Giugni said.
But Giugni admitted no wrongdoing and said he did not know for certain that it was his deer that attacked Maguire.
The lawsuit names Harris Bank Woodstock Trust as the defendant in the case. Orlowski said the bank is named because that is how the title to the property is set up. He will name the actual owner of the property in the lawsuit once that can be determined, Orlowski said.
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Uncle Matt (in IL)
From yesterday's Chicago Tribune (Jeff Long)
Man hurt in tussle with deer files suit
A Harvard (IL) man claims in a lawsuit that an escaped deer from the grounds of a casle under construction in rural McHenry county savagely attacked him last month.
"He was punctured by this deer through his body," said Jay Orlowski, the attorney for Richard Maguire.
Orlowski said the 10-point buck tore off a piece of Maguire's scalp that had to be stapled back into place and caused other injuries requiring more than a dozen stiches.
"Let's put it this way: I'm lucky to be alive," Maguire said about the incident. He declined to comment further because of the lawsuit.
McHenry County Sheriff's Police Captain Glenn Olson confirmed that the Sept. 4 attack sent Maguire to Mercy Hospital anf that the case was turned over to the Illinois department of Natural Resources for investigation.
"He became engaged in a struggle with this deer for 10 or 15 minutes," Olson said. "He became gored by this deer."
No criminal charges have been filed. A resources Department spokesman said the deer has been destroyed.
The deer escaped from the 17500 block of Lincoln Road, according to the lawsuit. The Sheriff's andResources Departments confirm the deer came from there.
"This was a captive deer that had escaped," said Joe Bauer, spokesman for the Resources Department.
Henri Giugni, who is building the castle in Hartland Township with his wife, June, said in an interview that they had raised the deer from the time it was a fawn.
In his lawsuit, Maguire said the deer attacked him as he walked on property he owns on nearby Irish Lane.
Maguire was "repeatedly attacked by a deer which had strayed onro (Maguire's) property," states the lawsuit, filed in McHenry County Circuit Court on Sept. 22.
Maguire suffered external and internal injuries and "has suffered and will in the future suffer pain, has been permanently scarred; has become obligated for large sums of money for medical care and will in the future be obligated for large sums of money for medical care," the suit states.
"If you mishandle the deer, he can be aggressive," Giugni said.
But Giugni admitted no wrongdoing and said he did not know for certain that it was his deer that attacked Maguire.
The lawsuit names Harris Bank Woodstock Trust as the defendant in the case. Orlowski said the bank is named because that is how the title to the property is set up. He will name the actual owner of the property in the lawsuit once that can be determined, Orlowski said.
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Uncle Matt (in IL)
