Angry Beaver

[Feuer Frei!]

Never heard that this could and is possible:


A fisherman has been bitten to death by a beaver after trying to take its photograph.
The man was on a fishing trip at Lake Shestakov in Belarus with two friends when they spotted the animal on the side of the road.
He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.
His friends attempted to stem the flow of blood from the wound but the animal’s bite had severed a main artery and the man, who came from Brest, bled to death.


SOURCE (http://news.sky.com/story/1076746/beaver-bites-man-to-death-in-belarus-attack)

[fireftr18]

He needed the holy handgrenade of Antioch. It worked for King Arthur on the killer rabbit. :har:

[August]

Assuming the story is true then it seems that the Beaver got in a one in a million shot akin to hitting the exhaust port on the Deathstar.

Maybe the beaver used the Force...:hmmm:

[Armistead]

not what i thought......:D

[Sailor Steve]

not what i thought......:D
'S whatcha get for thinnin', Baba Louie! :O:

[Mork_417]

Wait..... I thought beavers only ate wood. :haha:

[Reece]

Rather tragic and sad imo.:oops::cry:

[Wolferz]

There's a reason they're called :huh:WILD:huh: animals. :hmmm:

[Feuer Frei!]

Well, not ALL wild animals seperate main arteries in legs either.

[raymond6751]

Wait..... I thought beavers only ate wood. :haha:

This was probably a wooden leg.

(kidding)

Those guys might not have told the whole truth. They may have been abusing the beaver. Any animal will defend itself.

[Platapus]

The fact that beavers have survived as a species for so long is due to the fact that a beaver is capable of defending itself from attacks.

Who would have thought that an animal with jaws so powerful and teeth so strong that they can fell a tree might be capable of biting someone? :doh:

It is a wild animal and it will defend itself (and its young) from what it perceives to be an attack.

I wonder how the guy was photographing the beaver. I guess he never heard of a telephoto lens???

Raymond may be on to something. Perhaps the photographer was trying for an unusual picture by poking the beaver or throwing rocks at it.

He stopped so that he could take a picture but as he approached the beaver it pounced on him, biting him in the thigh.

Unless the beaver was rabid, I am having a hard time believing that by simply approaching a beaver that it would suddenly attack. He must have been pretty close to the beaver. Probably more to the story than has been released.

[TarJak]

Brings to mind this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

[u crank]

Don't mess with Castor canadensis. :O:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_30P69p8A

[August]

Could be a coverup for murder or an accidental killing I suppose.

[Jimbuna]

Could be a coverup for murder or an accidental killing I suppose.

My initial thoughts.

[August]

My initial thoughts.


"Yeah Officer, a beaver attacked the little snit,.... err our best buddy, we swear!"

[Jimbuna]

"Yeah Officer, a beaver attacked the little snit,.... err our best buddy, we swear!"

And a vampire variety of the species at that! :o

[Wolferz]

Brings to mind this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

I can see why this story reminded of that Primus video. In the poker scene, one of them is holding a hand of Aces and Eights.:O:

I love Primus by the way:up:.

[Stealhead]

The beaver clearly severed the mans femoral artery such an injury is often fatal.The only way to avoid death be to apply pressure proximal(nearer the heart) to the wound if the blood is spurting if that fails to stop the bleeding then a tourniquet is the only option.

Unfortunately for this man he got unlucky twice the first was that the beaver severed his femoral the second was that he buddies did not have any training in what should be a part of basic first aid which would be when to realize that a person has a severed artery and how to try and stop the bleeding and how to apply a tourniquet properly.

[NeonSamurai]

I strongly suspect there is a whole lot more to the story. Beavers are very slow on land, and don't exactly pounce well. They will fight viciously if cornered (like any critter), but they are not super well endowed for fighting on land as far as agility or speed.