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A white-tailed deer made an unwelcome visit to a downtown Viroqua business late Sunday afternoon, crashing through a double-pane glass window.

The deer, one of a group of three whitetails that wandered into the downtown historic district, lept through the window at Thrivent Financial, 217 N. Main St. The deer broke the window and destroyed items in the office. The call for the incident came to the Viroqua Police Department at 4:55 p.m., Chief Mark Rahr said.

The deer ran out of the Thrivent office and up West Terhune Street, by the Western Technical College where it was destroyed by a Viroqua Police Department officer. The deer had cut itself badly on the broken glass.

The other two deer, adult antlerless white-tails, escaped the city by running east and exiting the city limits through the Viroqua Cemetery.

It’s not the first case of white-tails wreaking havoc in Viroqua. In the mid-1980s, a whitetail ran headlong into the front door at Viroqua City Hall on Main Street. The glass to the door broke, Rahr said, but the deer didn’t get in the building. That deer also escaped the city.