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Old 04-13-13, 07:59 PM   #1
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He needed the holy handgrenade of Antioch. It worked for King Arthur on the killer rabbit.
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Old 04-13-13, 09:12 PM   #2
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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...
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not what i thought......
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Old 04-13-13, 10:49 PM   #4
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not what i thought......
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Wait..... I thought beavers only ate wood.
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Old 04-14-13, 12:34 AM   #6
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Rather tragic and sad imo.
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Old 04-14-13, 05:47 AM   #7
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Old 04-14-13, 06:38 AM   #8
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Wait..... I thought beavers only ate wood.
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.
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Old 04-14-13, 07:36 AM   #9
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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?

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.
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