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Dan Rockwell
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Really unusual animal attacks
 Sat Sep 07, 2002 6:07 pm
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I decided that there are just a few really unusual animal attacks that are just so unusual that they need their own thread. This one is account is one of the most unusual ones that I have ever read and I just had to post it here.
Buffalo attacks house
By Alan Hardie
August 28, 2002
A ROGUE buffalo that has attacked police has struck again - ramming an officer's house while he slept.
Constable Clay Evans told yesterday how he woke at daybreak to find his elevated house at Maranboy, 50km southeast of Katherine, shaking.
He walked to the back veranda _ to be confronted by a buffalo banging and rubbing its head against the outside stairway.
The officer tried to chase it away but the buffalo stood its ground and continued shaking the house. Finally, Constable Evans hurled a thong at the animal, hitting it on the head.
The buffalo looked up, swung its horns against the stairway a couple of times - then turned and trotted off.
Police believe it could be the same buffalo that loomed up in front of Sergeant Gavin Kennedy's car in January, causing the vehicle to roll.
The latest incident happened shortly before 6am on Sunday.
"I woke up and the whole house was shaking," Constable Evans said yesterday."I have two big dogs weighing up to 50kg each and I thought they were running up and down together. "But the shaking continued. "So I went out to the back veranda - and there stood a huge bull with massive horns. "It was nudging the stairs with its head, but it was a pretty heavy animal, a wild buffalo. "That's how it was shaking the house."
Concerned the beast would seriously damage his building, Constable Evans threw the thong.
"I didn't know what it would do, but the animal just trotted off," he said."My house is considered a yard for buffalo who often come to eat the grass, but nothing like this has happened before."
After Sgt Kennedy encountered his buffalo in January, he lay in his overturned vehicle for about 25 minutes until a passing motorist stopped to help.
The buffalo had just come out of the bushes and bounded towards his car.
It struck the left-hand side of his vehicle as he tried to avoid it.
But where were Constable Evans' dogs while the buffalo attacked his house this week?He admitted they hadn't come to defend him.
"They were hiding under the house," he said.
Northern Territory News
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4986835%255E13762,00.html |
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emfx13
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Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:17 pm
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That thong,tha-thong,thong,thong!!!!! |
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Dan Rockwell
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Sun Sep 08, 2002 4:32 am
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I had to read the story a few times to make sure that I wasn't imagining that the officer hurled a "thong" at the buffalo and hit it in the head with it. - ROFL!!! - I just hope it wasn't his.  |
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KrissaTMC2
Joined: 05 Feb 2002
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Fri Sep 20, 2002 12:35 am
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ROFL Dan. Gawd, I just wonder who the thong belonged to. I hope it wasn't his. LOL.
Well anyway. here's another animal attack for the thread.
Minn. wildlife researcher survives rare attack by black bear
Associated Press
Sept. 16, 2002 07:09 AM
ST. CLOUD, Minn. - A wildlife researcher was in fair condition Monday after a rare attack by a black bear, normally a timid species that runs from people.
Miles Becker was tracking woodcocks fitted with radio transmitters when the bear attacked him Sunday in the Four Brooks Wildlife Management Area 10 miles north of Milaca in central Minnesota.
Becker, 24, was taken to St. Cloud Hospital for treatment of broken facial bones, puncture wounds to his head and left leg, lacerations and a broken leg.
Wildlife officials set a trap for the bear, one of an estimated 30,000 in the state.
Dick Tuszynski, manager of the Mille Lacs Wildlife Management Area, speculated that Becker might have been wearing earphones to listen to the birds' transmitters and might not have heard potential bear warning signs such as growls.
"I've bumped into bears when I was out jogging early in the morning or when hunting, but bears are almost always wary and will leave," he said. "It's usually them that run away."
The only other black bear attack recorded in Minnesota happened in 1987, when a bear attacked campers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of extreme northern Minnesota, said Dave Garshelis, a bear biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources.
That bear might have been seeking food, Garshelis said. This year, however, berries, nuts and other foods are so abundant in Minnesota's forests that hunters have been having trouble luring bears with bait, he said.
In August, a black bear dragged away and killed a 5-month-old girl in New York state's Catskills.
Black bears have killed only about 50 or fewer people in North America in the past century, according to the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minn.
In most cases, the bears "are just big chickens," Lynn Rogers, director of the center and of the Wildlife Research Institute, said after the New York attack. "They've survived by running without question. The littlest hound can chase the biggest bear up a tree."
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On the Net:
North American Bear Center: http://www.bear.org
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0916BearAttack16-ON.html
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Dan Rockwell
Joined: 10 Dec 2001
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Sat Sep 21, 2002 4:38 am
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Yeah that was a really weird account Krissa.
Tiger attacks kindergartner at Scotts Valley school
Published 3:35 p.m. PDT Friday, September 20, 2002
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - A tiger attacked a kindergartner at a school assembly Friday, sending the 6-year-old boy to a hospital.
The tiger was being led out of an auditorium at Baymonte Christian School by its trainer when it suddenly lurched over a row of seats and grabbed the boy by the head in its jaws, Scotts Valley Police Capt. Harry Bidleman said.
Principal Steve Patterson was sitting one row behind the boy and wrestled him away from the declawed animal, said school spokesman Jenny Paul.
The boy was airlifted to Stanford Medical Center, where spokesman Robert Dicks said he was being evaluated Friday afternoon. Scotts Valley is about 60 miles south of San Francisco and about 30 miles south of Stanford.
Paul said the tiger was brought to the school as a reward for children who had sold 10 or more magazine subscriptions. About 150 students, from kindergarten through eighth grade, attended the assembly, Paul said.
The 1-year-old tiger is owned by Zoo To You, a company that brings animals to schools, she said.
"He was here last year when he was a little cub. It was his second visit here," Paul said.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/4474402p-5495017c.html
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Dan Rockwell
Joined: 10 Dec 2001
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Location: Stamford, CT, USA |
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Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:09 pm
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Today: September 24, 2002 at 7:00:22 PDT
Alligator Bites Off Arm of Fla. Man
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAINESVILLE, Fla.- An 11-foot alligator tore the right arm off the director of a botanical garden as he was weeding a pond. Surgeons were unable to reattach it.
Don Goodman was working Monday in a water lily garden at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens when the alligator bit his right arm off from just below his elbow, said Justin Lagotic, spokesman for Alachua County Fire Rescue.
About an hour after the attack, wildlife officials harpooned the male alligator, known as Mo-Jo by garden employees, said John Duncan, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Authorities then shot the alligator and slit his stomach open, finding Goodman's arm inside.
Officials took the arm to Shands Hospital at the University of Florida but doctors could not reattach it, botanical garden spokeswoman Barbara Bennett said.
Goodman was in fair condition Tuesday morning, hospital officials said.
The gator probably attacked because it mistook Goodman's hand for another animal, said Gabe Duclos, a gardener at Kanapaha.
This is the first alligator attack at the park, employees said.
Goodman has been the director of the gardens since 1978. The 62-acre park is owned by Alachua County and maintained by the North Florida Botanical Society.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/sep/24/092408491.html |
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