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Bushfire Victim Hurt In Freak Wombat Attack
SKY News ^ | 4/6/10 | Adam Arnold

Posted on 04/06/2010 7:07:38 AM PDT by Sax

An Australian man has reportedly killed a wombat with an axe after the animal attacked him and pulled him to the ground in a 20-minute ordeal.

The 60-year-old victim had stepped on the creature which then became "rather nasty" and bit the man's lower legs and arms.

He was brought down by the wombat and also suffered injuries to his chest after finding it outside his caravan door.

The man tried to get away from the creature but it "kept coming at him", said a paramedic.

Eventually he managed to grab an axe and kill the animal, it is claimed.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


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KEYWORDS: wombat
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You sir, have offended my honor by placing me beneath your boot! You have left me no other choice than to settle this injury through fist-to-cuffs. Prepare to defend yourself!

1 posted on 04/06/2010 7:07:38 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Sax
This'll never happen to me.
 
No sir.
 
I've read up on wombats, and I'm prepared.
 
 



2 posted on 04/06/2010 7:12:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Sax; tx_eggman

Any of you old VAX system users out there ever type the word “wombat” as a line command?


3 posted on 04/06/2010 7:12:54 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: Sax

You know alcohol was involved somehow...


4 posted on 04/06/2010 7:14:39 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Sax

Sounds like the man provoked the animal.


5 posted on 04/06/2010 7:15:48 AM PDT by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: Sax
I wonder what sort of enchantments were on that wombat. ;)
6 posted on 04/06/2010 7:17:40 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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7 posted on 04/06/2010 7:17:55 AM PDT by Sax
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The 60-year-old victim had stepped on the creature which then became "rather nasty" and bit the man's lower legs and arms.

I hear that wombat bites can be rather nasti.

8 posted on 04/06/2010 7:21:06 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Sax

Did the day shift fix the headline?


9 posted on 04/06/2010 7:24:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The real death threat is their legislation" Rush Limbaugh, 3/25/10)
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To: NonValueAdded

Must be an Aussie thing.


10 posted on 04/06/2010 7:26:06 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Sax

Its really hard fo rme to believe this story - really.


11 posted on 04/06/2010 7:27:04 AM PDT by ZULU
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Hey! Pick me up! Stop! I've been attacked by a wombat! No, really!

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12 posted on 04/06/2010 7:28:30 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Sax


13 posted on 04/06/2010 7:34:27 AM PDT by theymakemesick (Full of hatred for those that disagree, liberal democrats are the most intolerant bigots on Earth)
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To: Sax

The man is now a wounded wombat veteran...


14 posted on 04/06/2010 7:34:35 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Bushfire Victim Hurt In Freak Wombat Attack

Bushfire's fault!

15 posted on 04/06/2010 7:36:06 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: Sax

Well?....He stepped on him!....I’d bite him too!


16 posted on 04/06/2010 7:38:57 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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17 posted on 04/06/2010 7:38:57 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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18 posted on 04/06/2010 7:40:15 AM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: dead; OB1kNOb

speaking of nasti...


19 posted on 04/06/2010 7:40:18 AM PDT by Sax
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To: SpinnerWebb

So let’s each send a rabid wombat to the White House.


20 posted on 04/06/2010 8:18:16 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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