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I tried to take a selfie with a deer in the wild — I ended up with multiple broken ribs
New York Post ^ | Nov. 3, 2023 | Ben Cost

Posted on 11/03/2023 9:11:41 AM PDT by nickcarraway

He got a lot of bang for his buck — and not in a good way.

A tourist’s attempt to photograph a deer ended painfully after the critter rammed him and broke his ribs, as seen in a wince-worthy video blowing up online.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Gian Carlo Triacca, 42, told Caters News Service of the attack, which occurred while he and his wife, Erika, 40, were vacationing in Greece. The couple, who hail from Cancun, Mexico, had reportedly been entranced by a menagerie of beasts seen where they were on holiday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bambi; deer; video; watch
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To: nickcarraway

P.O.ed buck mule deer can be scary as krap ...

back in the day, i worked at a government lab located in several hundred acres of natural meadow that housed a resident mule deer herd ... one evening, a YUGE buck with at least 5 points on each rack rose up out of the grass and started pawing and snorting at me ... the deer was maybe 25 yards away and the parking lot was maybe 75 yards further ... i looked around for intervening trees to climb or hide behind and nada ... no way was i gonna run away from this deer ... i SLOWLY walked away without looking at the deer ... one of the times i most scared in my life ...


41 posted on 11/03/2023 12:07:35 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: nickcarraway

Play stupid games, win, stupid prizes

Or, from the deer’s point of view, FAFO.


42 posted on 11/03/2023 12:19:46 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: nickcarraway

Idiot! You should have sung to it first. Works for bears. Kinda.


43 posted on 11/03/2023 12:24:40 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Blennos

Help!

Yes dear. Soon as I get this picture.


44 posted on 11/03/2023 12:33:22 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Wild rules!


45 posted on 11/03/2023 12:37:34 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: pgyanke; sauropod

A broken rib will hurt every day for six weeks.

I have heard that bruised ribs only hurt for a month. 😄

I’ve only had the broken kind. Seriously one of the worst pain experiences ever.


46 posted on 11/03/2023 12:41:32 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart
A broken rib will hurt every day for six weeks.

Yeah, but a broken rib doesn't hurt constantly, only when you breathe...

47 posted on 11/03/2023 1:00:22 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

Or laugh, or cough, or God forbid if you have to sneeze or throw up.

I couldn’t sleep in a bed at all for three weeks.


48 posted on 11/03/2023 2:15:15 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Wilderness Conservative
He should go to Yellowstone and pet the bison

Don't give the moron any ideas.

We've already got more than enough of that sort of fool already.

Between that crap, people trying to cuddle with grizzlies or going wading in 300 degree volcanic pools we've got almost a Darwin Award winner every hour out of Yellowstone all by itself.

Add the similar fun and games up at Glacier (substituting 500 foot falls for the goofy wading deal) and Montana usually keeps a whole group of hospitals busy doing nothing but patching up tourists during The Season.

Now that even winters at the parks are being exploited we get to deal with avalanche and freezing "victims" as well.

Two final points:

Montana IS NOT A THEME PARK

F.. AROUND AND FIND OUT.

49 posted on 11/03/2023 6:32:17 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason)
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To: ConservativeMind
The couple from Mexico was on vacation in Greece ... that is some kind of Macedonian deer.


50 posted on 11/03/2023 7:54:40 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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