Posted on 07/31/2015 5:57:36 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Don’t mess with Texas armadillos.
That is the lesson that one local man learned the hard way when he landed in the hospital with a bullet wound after trying to shoot one of the hardy armor-plated critters.
Officials in Cass County, Texas, say the man suffered a graze wound to the head when he fired at an armadillo and the bullet ricocheted off the mammal's rigid protective covering and struck him.
The bizarre incident took place at around 3am Thursday in the 27,000 block of Highway 77 in the Marietta area, according to a report from KLTV.
The shooting victim was taken to a local hospital to be treated for minor injuries.
The hapless gunman has not been named. There is no word at this time on the armadillo's status.
The incident was classified by sheriff’s deputies as an ‘accidental shooting’.
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My uncle shot a badger in the head after it kept following him and not letting him walk back to his truck. He put the dead badger in with the bag of live snapping turtles he had caught. Then he realized why the badger was so persistent - there was a young badger up the trail. He caught the young badger.
Driving down the road in his hatch-back he heard a commotion in the back. The adult badger had only been knocked out! Tore through the sack and now he’s got a badger and two or three snapping turtles loose in the back end!
He finally killed the badger with a shovel iirc. The small badger was raised as a pet!
Funniest thing I had happen was on I-20 eastbound. I was running with another driver, and we we’re chatting on the radio.
All of a sudden he goes quiet, and I heard a thump through the radio. Before I could ask him what happened this giant “rope” came out from under his ICC bar.
Before I could react it hit my windshield.
If it wasn’t 10-12 feet, and as big around as a softball then my wife and I were both hallucinating.
Oh man blood and snake guts everywhere.
He didn’t know what he hit until I told him.
Maybe it was that critter on the ELP “Tarkus” album cover and shot back.
I did that once with a coon. Ran a trap line, had a coon in a leg hold trap. Clubbed it in the head, thought it was dead so I put it in my backpack and headed home. 5 minutes later I was ripping off the backpack and going to town on the backpack with a ironwood tree root.
Some things you never forget. After that I carried a .22
That is why there is so much armadillo roadkill. Their reaction to being startled is to jump into the air rather than freezing or trying to escape horizontally.
The "aim" probably had a lot of Jack Daniels confidence added to it.
“I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you’ve ever seen”
Never fly and shoot on the same day...
I don’t remember hitting any snakes, usually possum or armadillo (possum on the half shell), I did take out a coyote once.
Biggest scare I ever had was on a trip from Miami to Cheyenne.
My wife was riding along for the first time, so I had taken gator alley to Miami so she could see a gator. It was cloudy and rainy all the way, so she never saw one.
On the way to Cheyenne it was nice and sunny.
I’m driving along and she lets out a squall like she was being killed.
I jumped like I had been shot, dang near lost control of the truck.
I had to hit the shoulder and stop to calm down. I asked her what had happened.
She had seen her first gator, sunning on a clump of grass at the edge of the swamp.
She was like a kid getting her first puppy.
It took several hours to get my blood pressure back down.
***** “Kind of an armor-plated possum!” *****
When you run across one they are pretty much blind so when you spook them they start digging ... grab that tail, them lil suckers are strong!
And yes they jump, might as well say goodbye to them when you drive over them cause they will jump straight up into your undercarriage.
If you get them in your yard you will know, there will be hundreds of small holes everywhere, kinda like a hundred squirrels trying to remember where they buried their nuts.
Cute lil buggers, but their shell is not that hard, the guy was most likely hit by the ricochet from a round that went through the dillo, hit something hard and it came back. Entirely possible that it went through the dillo twice, they ain’t that tough.
Seems like you might be preaching to the
very people who you might not mind having
as neighbors.....American FReepers.
Your target should have been Rick Perry for
bringing people in and Jerry Moonbeam Brown
for his complicity in sending people and jobs
away from my state.
Three AM? I bet this guy shot at the critter and missed and a piece of jacket, lead or pavement struck him.
Took pictures of an armadillo on an FM road west of Lampasas years ago and every time the shutter opened and closed it reared up on hind legs in a threat posture.
It’s just a humor rant, nothing serious.
You will probably see it someday, I post it every year or two, depending on the circumstance.
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My post was tongue-n-cheek, as well.
I wouldn’t wish Jerry Brown on anyone.
There is really a downside to growth.
We conservatives have learned that in
California.
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