Video: 'Dead' deer wakes up in car, bounds off into Wis. woods

It's alive!

A Wisconsin driver got quite the surprise Thursday night after hitting a deer and, thinking it was dead, putting it in the back of his car.

"But once he arrived home the deer was alive and kicking," says a Facebook post from the Adams County Sheriff's Office. "The deer refused to give a statement and ran into the woods."

Watch the not-so-dead deer encounter for yourself:

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