Oh, you’re on thin ice now, Mister!

by Meg on February 1, 2008

Verrrry thin ice.

If only there was some way to get you out of there…

   

"Just doin’ a little ice skatin’ nyere", Ross and Jo-Lynn L.!
(read more here)

{ 114 comments }

1 Mina 02.01.08 at 4:07 am

waaaaaow funny kitty xD

2 Kiran 02.01.08 at 4:12 am

Yes that’s a pretty nice kitty mina

3 Jim 02.01.08 at 4:12 am

Whew. That was stressful. I feel better now.

4 Nanette 02.01.08 at 4:12 am

I hope he enjoyed the ride! His family will never believe his story!

5 Jupiter Star 02.01.08 at 4:17 am

I’m just amazed that the leetle deer’s legs weren’t turned into freezy-pops!

6 Kuu 02.01.08 at 4:20 am

Who else thought “bambi” as soon as they saw this? :P

7 M. 02.01.08 at 4:26 am

Kuu-

I did! :D

8 Lizzy 02.01.08 at 4:30 am

Oh deer!

Sorry, couldn’t resist. *dodges pelted puddings*

9 Vicki 02.01.08 at 4:31 am

I did, Kuu. ^_^

I literally cheered when the deerlet got to the shore.

10 sessile 02.01.08 at 4:32 am

Except for the freezing-off-the-’tocks part, that actually looks like loads of fun. :)

11 sc 02.01.08 at 4:33 am

awesome use of a helicopter! :)

12 fish eye no miko 02.01.08 at 4:34 am

Deer: “WHEEEEEEE!!”

13 Laura-Kathleen 02.01.08 at 4:35 am

He needs a bunneh to show him the proper way to ice skate, obvy.

14 A thinker 02.01.08 at 4:40 am

Most. Brilliant. Use. Of a helicopter. Ever.

15 anniebird 02.01.08 at 4:54 am

This just BLEW ME AWAY when i saw it! Sorry

16 lurkingsmirk 02.01.08 at 4:54 am

Awww…you just know the deer was fretting and then suddenly–whoahhhhhhh what’s going on???

Also–I just noticed there is an ad on the side for a dating site specifically for finding Chinese women. Weeeeeird.

17 berthaslave 02.01.08 at 4:55 am

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!

The behbeh deer is saved!!!!

This is almost as good as Barack and Hillary making nice!!!!

18 harlemgrrl 02.01.08 at 5:40 am

i’m not sure which was cuter, the behbeh or the chopper pilot saying “nyere” while saving him.

19 Juniper Jupiter 02.01.08 at 5:46 am

BOOO, Lizzy!!! Rotten Tomaters comin’ atcha!!!

‘Course, sincha beat me to it, they’re not comin’ towards ME! :P

Anyhoo, this is a great deer vid!! Love what the copter dude did to the lil feller!!! Just great! Who knew that would make him go gracefully over the ice like that!!

20 Annie J 02.01.08 at 5:55 am

Lol, they BLEW him over?! XD That’s hilarious. At least he the deer was saved! And it got to ice skate ;)

21 Crazed 02.01.08 at 5:58 am

YAY! ^_^ I was all “Oh noes!” and then we were cheering – Seriously, we were.
I agree, that really is the best use of a helicopter.

It’s things like this that make me think maybe, just maybe, my hope for humankind is not misplaced.

22 Kar 02.01.08 at 6:10 am

I ‘member this! They went on the ice but the deer just panicked and went farther out on the ice to get away from them.

Luckily that news copter was there.

My fave are those ear wiggles as he’s sliding cross the ice.

23 Sarah 02.01.08 at 6:26 am

Definitely Bambi. With Thumper there teaching him how to ice skate. haha.

24 Maggie 02.01.08 at 6:58 am

Ohh. I’m ever so glad he got out (thanks Mr. Pilot!), but it still made me sad. Ice is sharp, and legs are thin, and it’s so cold-looking out. I have to lean towards not so cute :( .

But I am *really* glad Mr. Pilot helped him get out.

25 Shannon 02.01.08 at 7:45 am

That was FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!

I agree, Crazed. I have lost so much faith in humanity. This makes me feel like not all is lost!

26 Michelle 02.01.08 at 7:49 am

Hooray! :D :D

27 Hon Glad 02.01.08 at 7:54 am

I think we all had the Bambi thought. Thank you Mr pilot.

28 Holy Cuteness 02.01.08 at 8:29 am

Ahw, poor Bambi.. Glad he made it!

29 SixFootJen 02.01.08 at 8:41 am

Deer: “Brrrrrrrr!”

Deer: “Ehn! Ehn!”

Deer: “Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

Deer: “Byeeeeeeee!”

30 SixFootJen 02.01.08 at 8:43 am

Ooops, I had typed in “stage directions” but used the wrong brackets and they disappeared! Let’s try this again.
===================
Deer: “Brrrrrrrrr!”
(scrambles out of ice-hole)
Deer: “Ehn! Ehn!”
(cue helicopter)
Deer: “Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
(glides to shore)
Deer: “Byeeeeeee!”
(bounds off into woods)

31 Barbarella 02.01.08 at 9:30 am

I was so worried when I first saw this, but then I was laughing! Even though it was stressed out, the sliding bit must have been FUN!:D

32 CheshireCat 02.01.08 at 9:42 am

So happy to see teh deer get safely whoooshed to shore! Hooray!

33 DLR 02.01.08 at 10:33 am

Whoa, talk about making good use of the downdraft from heli blades. That’s one heck of a pilot too in coming that close without causing problems. That poor deer’s heart must of been going a mile a minute.

34 Subhangi 02.01.08 at 11:15 am

LOL and awwwww. That’s a very clever use of the helicopter! (Though the poor deer must have been freezing!)

Yay!

35 Wendy 02.01.08 at 11:58 am

Sad.

Funny.

Scary.

Tense.

Happy.

Silly.

SOOOOO many mixed emotions in such a short time!

Yay, helicopter pilot for saving the day.

Yay, deer for being O.K!

36 Brian 02.01.08 at 12:19 pm

Your site doesn’t load in Firefox anymore since a few days ago! Wah!

37 bookmonstercats 02.01.08 at 12:45 pm

The ‘copter pilot is now my hero. Sixfootjen LOL. Shannon, sorry you’ve lost faith in humanity, but there are SO MANY great peeps out there, fix on them instead of the b*st*rds. I do and (cheeeeeesy grin) visitin’ CO is the best way of doing it.

38 miss.LOL 02.01.08 at 12:57 pm

i thout bambi the first second i saw that and look SKATING DEER SKATING DEER!!!LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

39 Kipling 02.01.08 at 1:01 pm

OMG that was frightening!
Poor little frozen tooshie.

40 Lola88 02.01.08 at 1:12 pm

Wear I am, it’s gray and rainy and depressing out today so I’m in a bad mood.

What if nobody had found the lil fawn? It just made me sad…. I hate that animals have to live outside all year in the cold. They should build warming huts in all the forrests.

41 ButtaRumCake 02.01.08 at 1:15 pm

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DEER’TOCKS!!!!!!!
OH-EM-GEEEEEE!!!!

Thanks so much CO – my schlep to work was SO worth it today LOL

42 SayYesh 02.01.08 at 1:31 pm

Yahooooo!!!!!

43 jen 02.01.08 at 2:17 pm

at first i was stumped as to when the ‘cuteness’ would begin, then i LOL’d as the wind got lil deer’s momentum going in a supreme skid across the ice. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!what a happy ending!

44 blair 02.01.08 at 2:33 pm

whatever happened to lenny skutnik?

45 Theo 02.01.08 at 2:36 pm

*WHEW*

46 LovesCats 02.01.08 at 2:36 pm

That was sad and stressful–not CUTE! Thank goodness that deer got off the ice. That was not a fun video!

47 Joy 02.01.08 at 2:37 pm

Aww… this one made me sad!!! I hope he found his mama! and I hope he wasn’t too frozen after that!

48 Tisha_ 02.01.08 at 3:01 pm

Hey! This is from Oklahoma! The chopper from our own CBS affiliate. For real!

49 blair 02.01.08 at 3:07 pm

oooooOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH-
klahoma where the propwash blows deer acrosst the iiiiice…

what?

50 rachel! 02.01.08 at 3:13 pm

MELTS MY HEART!!!!!! that was so cute. they saved that cute lil guy!! awwwwwwwwwww

51 Cute-porter Jade 02.01.08 at 3:16 pm

I thought, at first, it was a cute or sad vid! The happy ending made it all worth it.

52 kathryn 02.01.08 at 3:23 pm

Yeah!! Seeing this made my morning! :D Hooray for nice helicopter pilots!

53 Tisha_ 02.01.08 at 3:23 pm

And, he was honored by PEtA for it…

http://www.newsok.com/article/keyword/3009967

54 Electra 02.01.08 at 3:24 pm

How kewl. That guy was all like normal and not all cutiepie sentimental about saving that leedle Bambi… He was a MAN… a GOOD MAN… a straight thinking PRACTICAL MAN… but such an attentive humane MAN just going about his thing and being a decent human being. I WANT A CUTE OVERLOAD PRACTICAL MAN LIKE THAT in my life! Aaaaw
I love him

55 Laura 02.01.08 at 3:33 pm

This made me tear up and smile at the same time. Ah, a happy ending….

56 estella 02.01.08 at 3:39 pm

Speaking of C.O. practical men…I just have to brag that recently I asked my man to set up my wireless network in the place I just moved to. One of my neighbors named his network “HellsFury.” I left it up to my boyfriend of 7 yrs to decide what to call mine.

I came home from work to discover he named it “OohFluffies.” And the password is a combo of words from the C.O. glossary. And this is why I LOFS HIM.

57 Jacquie 02.01.08 at 3:41 pm

Land hoooooooooooo!!! “Blump” now….RUN LIKE HELL!!!

58 Theo 02.01.08 at 3:53 pm

Estella? …he’s a keeper.

Just so you know, though, given what you just said, I’d likely be able to hack your wireless. Might wanna customize that password a bit with some special characters (numbers, caps, punctuation, etc.)

;)

59 j 02.01.08 at 3:55 pm

i believe this was about a year back, happened locally for me. and yeah, that pilot is awesome. i know that the police will use him when they have a high speed chase sometimes. (even thought its a news channel heli & pilot). and everyone was happy about the deer being safe.

60 CoffeeCup 02.01.08 at 3:55 pm

Must’ve been freezing in that water, I’m glad the deer made it…and got a fun ride along the way, haha. I couldn’t stop giggling to myself while it was sliding.

61 Annie 02.01.08 at 3:56 pm

Thank God I am not at work watching this I am sitting here crying tears of joy for the deer.
Yay!

62 CoffeeCup 02.01.08 at 3:59 pm

@Lola88: These are wild animals, they’re…in the wild. It’s outdoors. They were born to be in the forests. I don’t feel bad about deer being outdoors because it’s where they live. Puppies and kittens that are domesticated are another thing, but deer are wild animals. And warming posts in forests perhaps will harm the area because it would throw off the balance of the temperatures in the forest. Predators might figure out where these posts are and stay near them to hunt? Sorry you’re in a bad moon though. It’s rainy and dark here too, I just want to sit in my PJs and watch TV but I have to go to work.

63 CoffeeCup 02.01.08 at 4:01 pm

You mean Estella’s network pasword isn’t bleenuffehn?

64 brinnann 02.01.08 at 4:05 pm

Estella: Best. Network Name. Ever. Can I say it just once? OohFluffies; just makes me wanna giggle.

65 Theo 02.01.08 at 4:06 pm

SHHH, CoffeeCup!! Jeez!

66 CoffeeCup 02.01.08 at 4:16 pm

Oh noes! I feer I haves bin shshed by teh grate Teho, hed of all teh qte! Whutevs shale I doos?

:-P

[Why, immediately and categorically disavow any & all insider knowledge of abovementioned sensitive information, knowing that the executive branch will back you up should it come to subpoenas and/or press conferences... - Ed.]

67 LisaL 02.01.08 at 4:17 pm

Aww,, well I’m glad the deer got saved!

68 Alex(andria) 02.01.08 at 4:17 pm

I was so scared when I started watching this! I don’t know if any of you have ever fallen through ice, but it is the most horrifying experience i’ve EVER had. Not only does it physically hurt to be in ice cold water, the amazing amount to stress you’re feeling when you can’t get out is….well. I am thankful my friend and I got out.

And who ever thought to use a helicoptor to blow a deer across ice? Fast thinking animal rescuers! And good blowing Mr. Pilot! I’m glad Mr. frozendeertocks made it out ok.

69 Pheas 02.01.08 at 4:21 pm

D’oe!

70 Annie 02.01.08 at 4:25 pm

Okay I posted and then went back and read all your Comments. HEhehehe you all are so funny.
The perfect pre homework warm up. Not only was the deer saved but great comments too.

I love C.O.

71 CoffeeCup 02.01.08 at 4:31 pm

But Teho…press conferences are awesome.

72 estella 02.01.08 at 4:32 pm

Teho, I’d be honored if you hacked my network ;) I’d just have to hack into your computer in return, and whenever you try to access any webpage or program, your screen will only display pictures of our cuteoverlords.

73 hey-h 02.01.08 at 4:35 pm

Oh my gosh. Watching that video totally stressed me out. Although the part when the deer gets the free ride across the ice? Pretty awesome. I like how nonchalant it was: Hey, dudes. I’m hydroplaning. It’s the bomb.

74 Theo 02.01.08 at 4:36 pm

That’s what I like to hear, CoffeeCup. You’re a team player, and we take care of our own.

Estella –
http://k-i-v.com/2007/08/02/upside-down-ternet/
(hehe)

75 estella 02.01.08 at 4:44 pm

Theo — I’ve seen that before and it’s pretty cool :) though I’d modify it so people only see upside down pictures of LOLcats saying “i’m in ur compooterz, upsidedowning your stuffz”

76 wordnerd 02.01.08 at 5:01 pm

When I first starting watching this clip I was like “The poor deer! This isn’t cute! Why did Meg put this on here?!” But I had faith and knew it had to have a happy ending – otherwise our intrepid leader of the qte would not put it on. I had to congratulate myself for not succumbing to the stress.

Anyway, long story short — yay for the deer. And yay for the helo pilot. I wonder what was going through his mind? “Hmmmm, I wonder if this would work….?” I’d love to see what his call sign is now – prolly like Nature Boy or something. Hee!

77 Darlie 02.01.08 at 6:13 pm

Sometimes I just love humanity. That was “moving” .

78 LOLbaby Mama 02.01.08 at 7:24 pm

One more reason why we Okies RAWK. I heart Mr. Choppers McSweetiePie for his excelente flying skilz and his compassion.

79 onion 02.01.08 at 7:56 pm

poor deer musta been scared but on the other hand pumping blood was just what he needed to get moving and warm up. best wierdest rescue evahr 8D

80 rabble 02.01.08 at 8:11 pm

that was an emotional rollercoaster. i actually puked a rainbow for the first time; what a trip!!

81 starling 02.01.08 at 8:56 pm

Scuse me! Why won’t Cuteoverload load in Firefox anymore? I tort it was my ad block, but even with it switched off I only get the winged hampster background.

82 Lisa 02.01.08 at 9:01 pm

That was an AWESOME video! Disturbing at first, but what an ending. I love how nonchalant little frozen-tocks deer-pants was. My husband (who’s home for a snow day) made me replay it 3 times.

In other news…I’ve realized that the nuffers don’t irritate me NEARLY so much as the stupid comments. And that’s saying something, because nuffers irritate the hell out of me. Stupid people make me want to commit unspeakable acts.

83 boo 02.01.08 at 11:27 pm

Pheas – too funny ;-)

84 ljlmkj 02.01.08 at 11:32 pm

I don’t know…. That deer didn’t look particularly young. I didn’t see any spots. I doubt it was still dependent on its mother.

Ummm, Meg? I don’t know how much control you have over the ads here, but there is a mail-order bride service being advertised on the bottom left. It is semi-masquerading as an Asian dating website. It isn’t one. It talks about “marriage” and the women don’t even have names. Just numbers, age, height, weight and where they’re from. Please do something or get an ad program that lets you choose your ads. I suggest BlogHerAds, BlogAds, ADSDAQ or AdBrite.

85 Amanda 02.01.08 at 11:34 pm

I was really feeling terrible at the beginning…that wonderful gust of wind that blew him to safety must have been heaven-sent.

86 chanpon 02.01.08 at 11:49 pm

Wow, it’s belly must have been frozen after swishing over that ice!! Poor baby, but glad it made it out ok. He did kind of look like he enjoyed the gliding part of it…

87 Kimski 02.02.08 at 12:10 am

And then the friendly giant blew and blew the little deer aaaaaaaaall the way onto the snow.

: )

88 muhj 02.02.08 at 12:14 am

Brrrrrrroshus. The white soggypants were Qte, but yeah, it was a tense momenut.

89 Angelique Crest 02.02.08 at 12:35 am

AHH I was getting worried about da deer. Now I’m happy it’s off back in the wild again. =)

90 CoffeeCup 02.02.08 at 1:01 am

CO loads in Firefox for me…then again I’m on mac at work and at home. Is it not loading for PC Firefox users? Eesh.

91 mydogoscar 02.02.08 at 1:05 am

Hate to be this way, but chances of that deer surviving even though it got out of the water are pretty low. This was definitely not cute.

92 mydogoscar 02.02.08 at 1:07 am

Hate to be this way, but chances of that deer surviving even though it got out of the water are pretty low. This was definitely not cute.

93 Lisa 02.02.08 at 1:10 am

Amanda – are you serious? Did you have your speakers on?

94 Cheryl 02.02.08 at 1:37 am

I’m in Firefox on a PC, and it’s working fine for me.

95 DalMomma 02.02.08 at 2:31 am

Thank goodness this ended good – or else I would question it’s cuteness – whew

96 DalMomma 02.02.08 at 2:33 am

Thank goodness this ended good – or else I would question it’s cuteness – whew

97 Marie 02.02.08 at 2:53 am

Oh I saw this before! All I can is what heroes! And I love how the deer seemed to enjoy the ride. I did want to wrap the poor baby in a warm, toasty blanket, however.

98 Maggie 02.02.08 at 3:31 am

Well, it loads on my husband’s PC laptop, and not on my PC desktop. Both are on Firefox, and both are on the same network (though the laptop is wireless). I can’t figure it out…

99 CoffeeCup 02.02.08 at 3:39 am

Maggie, it has to do with your Firefox settings then. What is it doing? Is it just a blank page, as if it begins to load but stalls, or does it give an error message? Try erasing your cookies and then refreshing the page. If that doesn’t work, try uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling.

100 claudia 02.02.08 at 6:17 am

YAY!!! I actually cheered at the end. Good one.

101 kahmac 02.02.08 at 9:10 am

Please can we have a warning next time for those of a sensitive disposition? This was sooo NOT cute! Even though it was great that the deer was saved, I did not enjoy watching a terrified, traumatized animal. And, sliding across the ice would NOT have been enjoyable to an animal in distress. Got to look at loads of cute kitty pics to try to get these horrible images out of my mind!

102 Jan 02.02.08 at 4:17 pm

The video is gone… “sniff” I wanted to see it!

J

103 Jan 02.02.08 at 4:20 pm

OK it just played on this page…weird… wow, what a rescue! That was soooo cool that they “blew” it over to the side. GREAT thinking!!!!!

104 spongebrooke 02.02.08 at 5:01 pm

haha i’m sorry but omg that’s hilarious XD

if anything what a unique way to solve that problem!

105 nads 02.02.08 at 5:22 pm

Wow. Watching this was kind of like when your kid falls down and he’s totally fine and you want to laugh because it was a REALLY funny fall, but you can’t cuz its evil to laugh at your kid who fell, even though they were fine. Except this time I laughed. And not an inner laugh, a loud laugh. And the deer sliding across the ice reminded me of how i slid about 20 feet on my stomach after totally tripping while skating yesterday.

106 Kris 02.02.08 at 7:44 pm

Oh my gosh – that has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen! Wheeeeeeee!

107 Alex 02.02.08 at 9:31 pm

The site doesn’t load with my FF either since a few days. Was all fine before and I didn’t change anything on the settings.
I normally user Firefox/2.0.0.11, but now have to start the IE everytime I want to read CO.

108 Rema 02.02.08 at 10:12 pm

I just noticed how he scurried off, scared as hell

Poor deer must be scarred for life (plus cold ‘tocks, talk about uncomfy!)

109 HvsL 02.02.08 at 11:41 pm

I think it must have been FREAKED OUT at first, but then it was like, hmm, I do better if I just sit here so WOAH this is kinda fun! -ear twitchy-
Onion, I agree, if blood to feet was the goal, big scary but helpful sky monster was a good way to get it going!
and yay cool for Peta award- not that I’m a peta fan but he deserved recognition.

110 Theo 02.02.08 at 11:48 pm

Firefox loads CO just fine for me, with boring old Windows XP.

111 Alex 02.03.08 at 4:09 pm

Hi Theo,

today FF loads the main page of the Blog, but just shows the background when I want to see an individual entry with comments. Also XP here.
Strange.

112 starling 02.03.08 at 9:19 pm

Ditto, Alex. Oh well, at least I can see the main page again. Hurrah!

113 Alex 02.03.08 at 10:22 pm

No everything works again. Hooray!

114 jp 02.03.08 at 11:31 pm

nice helicopter mang

now run! here come hunter mang

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