“About ten years a deer came wandering through our street. Five cruisers with sirens and lights blazing rushed in to protect us from fierce Bambi.”
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I can beat that one....
Back in the late fiftys, there were two, maybe three separate incidents of black bear wandering around various neighborhoods in the city.
Memphis is probably 400 miles from any native habitat.
I do not think they ever discovered where they came from.
And yes, the police were going crazy, zooming all over our neighborhood.
There were bears in the Wolf river bottoms in the sixties, I remember a reports of sightings.