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Iowa teen known as "deer magnet"

Tuesday July 27th, 2010

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A central Iowa teen has earned the

nickname "The Deer Magnet" after hitting five deer in the past

year.

Seventeen-year-old Kacee Larson of Conrad says her string of bad

luck began last July when she was driving home from her job at an

ice cream shop. She saw the deer an instant before hitting it.

Larson's second collision happened a few months later, while she

was driving to church on a Sunday morning.

The streak continued. After Larson hit her fourth deer, her

pastor's wife advised her to start praying before she got into a

vehicle.

Larson says was doing just that Friday when she hit her fifth

deer. The crash totaled her minivan, and the air bag left bruises

on her arms.

Larson says she can't help asking: "Why me?"

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 

AP-NY-07-26-10 1456EDT

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