Ananova:

The hunter became the hunted when a deer took revenge on the man who shot it.

Randy Goodman, 47, from Sedalia, Missouri shot the stag twice with his rifle and assumed it was dead.

But seconds later the 240lb deer came back to life and turned on Mr Goodman, knocking him to the ground and pounding him with its hooves.

Mr Goodman, a veteran hunter who described the attack just before Christmas as "15 seconds of hell", also suffered the indignity of having a clip of the incident watched by thousands on YouTube.

After the attack the deer then ran a short distance before collapsing. Mr Goodman was able to recover enough to fire two more shots, making sure the angry animal was definitely dead this time.

He then drove himself to hospital were he received seven stitches to his head.

Most people who watched the clip on YouTube did not have much sympathy for Mr Goodman.

"I was laughing, and almost crying. Anybody who has read Bambi would laugh their socks off," wrote one.