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Let’s let Greta Robinson tell this story.

“We were walking home from school and I saw some deer when I was coming around the corner,” the 5-year-old Rattlesnake Elementary School kindergartner said. “One of them jumped into someone’s car. Her window was shut, and the deer jumped right through the window and broke it. The lady was afraid it was going to kick her in the head, so she jumped out, and when she turned around, the deer was driving her car away. It hit a mailbox and it fell over. So she got back in and she told the deer ‘get out now.’ It got out and ran away.”

That’s the eyewitness account of what happened to Rattlesnake staff member Jenn Jencso, who was driving her Honda Odyssey minivan on Gilbert Avenue at 2:45 p.m. Thursday. One minute she’s watching children walking home from school. The next, a yearling deer is thrashing in her passenger seat.

“It’s a minivan — the window doesn’t even open,” Jencso said. “It shattered the whole glass and then came up in the front with me. It was kicking and I was screaming and trying to hold the wheel with my left hand and hitting it with my right.”