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Feuer Frei! 04-13-13 07:11 PM

Angry Beaver
 
Never heard that this could and is possible:

Quote:

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.

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fireftr18 04-13-13 07:59 PM

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

August 04-13-13 09:12 PM

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 04-13-13 10:47 PM

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

Sailor Steve 04-13-13 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 2041009)
not what i thought......:D

'S whatcha get for thinnin', Baba Louie! :O:

Mork_417 04-13-13 11:01 PM

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

Reece 04-14-13 12:34 AM

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

Wolferz 04-14-13 05:47 AM

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

Feuer Frei! 04-14-13 06:04 AM

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

raymond6751 04-14-13 06:38 AM

True
 
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Originally Posted by FloppyRat (Post 2041014)
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 04-14-13 07:36 AM

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.

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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 04-14-13 07:44 AM

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

u crank 04-14-13 08:22 AM

Don't mess with Castor canadensis. :O:

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

August 04-14-13 08:45 AM

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

Jimbuna 04-14-13 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by August (Post 2041151)
Could be a coverup for murder or an accidental killing I suppose.

My initial thoughts.


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