Posted on 05/02/2010 1:35:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A man who survived last year's deadly bush fires in Australia is recovering in hospital after falling victim to a rare attack by a wombat.
Bruce Kringle, 60, was pulled to the ground by the animal and bitten on the legs and arms after apparently stepping on it by mistake.
He escaped after killing the wombat with an axe. Animal experts said it appeared the wombat had been suffering from mange, which had made it irritable. Paramedic Robert Gill said it appeared Mr Kringle had trodden on the animal when he left his caravan in Flowerdale, north-east of Melbourne. He was living in the caravan while he rebuilt his home after the "Black Saturday" fires.
"The wombat proceeded to get rather nasty and attacked him and inflicted some wounds to his lower legs and also to his arms as well," ABC News quoted Mr Gill as saying. "It took about 20 minutes. He did try to exit the area and get away from the wombat but my belief is that it kept coming at him."
Kelly Smith, a friend of Mr Kringle, said that once he was on the ground, the wombat had climbed on his chest.
"Bruce managed to find an axe and killed it," Ms Smith told the AAP news agency. "It's bizarre what happened." There were reports that local people had complained about a rogue wombat in the area in recent days.
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Further proof that democrats/progressives/liberals come in all shapes and sizes.
;-)
Looks like Waxman.
I think a wombat ate your baybeeee...
Ya think?.......by the way do you notice the resemblence to Helen Thomas?
Passing cube shaped dung would make any animal mad.
Cut us some slack! That picture is way too hard on the eyes at this point of the morning.
Babies natural enemies in Australia.
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