Posted on 05/29/2013 12:33:39 PM PDT by redreno
A beaver has attacked a 60-year-old fisherman in Belarus, slicing an artery and causing him to bleed to death. It was the latest in a series of beaver attacks on humans in the country, as the rodents, who have razor-sharp teeth, have turned increasingly aggressive after wandering near homes, shops and schools. "The character of the wound was totally shocking," said the village doctor Leonty Sulim. "We had never run into anything like this before." Once hunted nearly to extinction in Europe, beavers have made a comeback as hunting has been banned or restricted and new populations were introduced. In Belarus, a former Soviet republic between Russia and Poland, the beaver population has tripled in the past decade to an estimated 80,000, according to wildlife experts. That has caused beavers increasingly to encroach on populated areas.
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this is gonna be good....
Paging Uncle Si....Bring your napalm!!!
Gosh, Wally! I guess I went and kilt him, huh?
Gonna remind me of the time I lived in Michigan and sent a female co-worker into hysterical convulsions on the floor by pulling out a road map and proving to her that there WAS actually a town named Shy Beaver, Pennsylvania.
Little Beaver would never treat Red Ryder that way.
What an inglorious way to go out....killed by a beaver.
No comment!!!
Did a little beaver hunting in my youth. But then I got married and my wife forced me to give it up... :(
What kind a idiot tries to grab a wild animal with razor sharp teeth just to have a photo taken with it?
Do people really think that wild animals look upon humans as friendly?
He got what he deserved; stupidity kills.
I was going to say that the citizens of Belarus need to place a call to the Robertson clan. They’ll have them suckers cleaned up in no time!
Ah! the glories of our youth! (as wife slaps face). LOL
Momma always said, stupid is as...
Latest in the series of beaver attacks?
Sounds like a movement to me.
Looks like a run on beaver traps is looming down at the feed and grain store.
Well at least he died happy.... Oh wait the rodent.
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