Kalamazoo, Michigan Police questioning a driver who had been sitting in his car at around 2:30 a.m. in a hotel parking lot were startled when a deer jumped out of the vehicle’s trunk.

Officers said the man was sitting in his car at a Red Roof Inn when they approached him to investigate. The driver told them that he had struck a deer with his car and loaded the dead body into the trunk so he could take it home and cook it.

While the officers were talking with the man, the deer jumped out of the trunk. Lieutenant Stacey Geik said, “The officer was certainly surprised. One held his ground better than the other as the video indicated.”