WATCH: Cop Wrestles Buck, Saves it From Net in Scotch Plains

Scotch Plains, NJ -- As a police officer and an animal lover at heart, it was only natural for the Scotch Plains native Tim Majek to chase down a buck and rescue it from being tangled in a netted fence.

And the 21-year veteran Woodbridge police officer got the whole thing on video.

Majek was home about a month ago when his neighbor from down the street called him. He told Majek a buck was stuck in a black nylon net that sits behind his basketball hoop to prevent the childrens' ball from going into the woods.

"When I got there the deer and his antlers were intertwined in the net and he was going crazy, kicking, bucking," Majek told Patch.

He was able to cut loose part of the net but before he could remove the rest from the buck's antlers, it took off into the woods.

"As he was running through the woods the net would get stuck on the trees and violently slam him to the ground," Majek said. "He was going to get hurt or killed and he actually broke one of his antlers off in the process."

Majek took off after the buck and chased it through the woods for about 15 minutes until he was able to catch up to it and grab on to the netting. He used a knife to start cutting away the netting.

While cutting through all of the netting, the buck would sometimes remain calm and at times freak out again.

As soon as Majek cut the buck loose, he was surpised by its reaction.

"He kind of looked at me, like in a deer voice saying 'thank you' or maybe he wanted to jam his other antler in my gut," laughed Majek.

The buck appeared to be unharmed during the process and Majek only suffered a cut to his hand from the antler.

Majek still has the broken antler in his home and said he thinks he saw the buck again in his neighborhood.

This isn't Majek's first encounter with animal rescue.

In the past he has saved kittens from a sewer pipe in Flemington while visiting his sister off-duty and also saved a few ducklings who also got stuck in a sewer pipe in Woodbridge while working on duty as a police officer.

Watch Majek's video below: