--- description: Was it Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, or Blitzen? title: A Flying Deer Hit a Cop Car in Kentucky image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4f36f6deeda10ec/69876b3ecd1bba16e86f3c80/04498585.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [animals](/tag/animals/) ## animals Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Flying Deer Hit a Cop Car in Kentucky by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 5:52 PM CUT  epaselect epa04498585 Santa Claus waves to the crowd from his flying sleigh drawn by reindeer over the Geneva Lake and in front of the Swiss and French alps as the sunset on the first day of the 20th edition of the Christmas Market in Montreux, Switzerland, 21 November 2014\. Santa Claus flying with the aid of a cable above market and the lake on a distance of 385 meters. EPA/LAURENT GILLIERON epaselect epa04498585 Santa Claus waves to the crowd from his flying sleigh drawn by reindeer over the Geneva Lake and in front of the Swiss and French alps as the sunset on the first day of the 20th edition of the Christmas Market in Montreux, Switzerland, 21 November 2014\. Santa Claus flying with the aid of a cable above market and the lake on a distance of 385 meters. EPA/LAURENT GILLIERONLAURENT GILLIERON—EPA by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 2, 2015 5:52 PM CUT Officer Chris Pittaluga of the Kenton Country police department collided with a deer that was mid-air during a drive over the weekend. The officer and deer were both unharmed, with the deer standing up and darting into the forrest after the collision. “We did place a call to Santa just to be sure this deer didn’t belong to him (we would hate to end up on the naughty list). He was quick to point out that he employs reindeer and that, although this deer did appear to fly, it was not a reindeer (we still aren’t clear whether we will be making the nice list or not),” the police department posted on its [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/KentonCountyPolice/videos/vb.59568024715/10153318454494716/?type=2&theater "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4132920/flying-deer-kentucky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4132920/flying-deer-kentucky/"},"headline":"A Flying Deer Hit a Cop Car in Kentucky","datePublished":"2015-12-02T17:52:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:03:01.476Z","description":"Was it Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, or Blitzen?","url":"https://time.com/4132920/flying-deer-kentucky/","keywords":["animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4f36f6deeda10ec/69876b3ecd1bba16e86f3c80/04498585.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4f36f6deeda10ec/69876b3ecd1bba16e86f3c80/04498585.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Christmas market in Montreux","caption":"Christmas market in Montreux","creditText":"LAURENT GILLIERON—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4132920/flying-deer-kentucky/","name":"A Flying Deer Hit a Cop Car in Kentucky"}}]}] ```