Mr McClure says it is highly unusual for a wombat to attack a person.
A wombat unprovokedly attacking a person? Killer wombats!
Posted on 04/05/2010 8:24:02 PM PDT by myknowledge
A man is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a wombat at Flowerdale, north-east of Melbourne.
Paramedic Robert Gill said the man was a survivor of the Black Saturday bushfires and was living in a caravan while he built a new home.
He said the when the man went to leave the caravan this morning, he found the wombat on his door mat.
"Unfortunately the gentleman stood on the wombat and 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," he said.
"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."
A local resident said the man managed to kill the wombat with an axe.
Mr Gill said some other residents had had a run-in with the wombat earlier.
"They were able to exercise caution with him and get rid of him further down the road but unfortunately the next stop was this gentleman's door mat," he said.
Mr Gill said the man was bitten on the arms and legs, and taken to the Northern Hospital in stable condition.
Jeff McClure from the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) says it is highly unusual for a wombat to attack a person.
"Wombats that are in an advance stage of mange will become very agitated from the suffering and the irritation of the mange," he said.
He said if they are approached or feel threatened wombats will rush towards someone.
"But it's not known that they will push the attack to where they would physically attack someone."
Mr McClure says it is highly unusual for a wombat to attack a person.
A wombat unprovokedly attacking a person? Killer wombats!
That’s just what I want on my tombstone.
“Mauled by a wombat.”
Totally inaccurate headline. The camper was the BS who initated the attack on the wombat.
And how blind/drunk to you have to be to step on a wombat?
I walked past my young son one day. He was singing:
American Wombat.
Stay away from meeee.
American Wombat.
Don’t come near meeee.
Can you blame him?
Per the article: The guy stood on the wombat. That's provocation in my book. If someone were to stand on me I guarantee something bad would happen.
>>”And how blind/drunk to you have to be to step on a wombat? “
“Vile infidel! Know, you have trod on the toe
Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.”(the wombat)
http://209.17.166.106/lyrics/a011.html
(Sudden jihad syndrome, wombat style.)
I told him the song is really about a much more dangerous creature than an American Wombat.
You haven’t changed the dragon into a wombat. LOL.
Well, he can’t say he hasn’t been warned. ROTFL
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