Noooo, not the always enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver!!
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 was yet another sad case of “touch the beaver and die”.
They are a wonderful example of God’s plan for domestic loyalty.
Nobama has never seen a beaver.
Have you been on the road between Intercourse and Paradise?
Don’t leave it to Beaver.
But out here in the western part of the state we have Beaver County, where quite literally EVERYTHING is named after the beaver. Beaver Valley, Beaver High School, Beaver River....mention this county to anyone out-of-state and they can’t keep the smirk off their faces.
Noooo, not the always enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver!!
I enjoy watching all of the Alaska outdoor reality cable programs and think about how you can’t just call an ambulance if you get seriously injured.
Intercource is about halfway between Blue Balls, Pa and Paradise,Pa (or way that Bird in Hand)
There is also a Climax, Ga.
new populations were introduced....Ah, yes. Appalachian pit beavers. Nasty creatures, just nasty.
Used to be the old “69 Tavern’ in Lickingville, PA. I think I still have T-shirt around from that.
I just came back from Vail, CO. While there I wentt the local sub store and adult beverage storage.
I bought a shirt at both places and now I have Beaver Diver and Beaver Liquor shirts.
True story and you can look em up.
That was the other town I was trying to remember!!!
Yep, I use to live in Greenville, DE and would pass through Gap on my way to Lancaster for some antiqueing.
One time I was going through intercourse with a friend, just happens to be female(LOL), and she sees these two crotchety ol men who had just pulled a dead person out of a hearse onto a gurney. Yes, the body was in a bag.
They are taking the body, on the gurney, into a funeral home.
Anyway, it’s the dead of winter with ice everywhere and they are having one hell of a time getting the gurney and the body up on the sidewalk.
I mean, they are wrestling with this thing and trying to keep it from falling over, which it almost did, as they slipped and slided.
So, just as we are passing by these these two fellas and the dead person, they slip and nearly fall over.
Just as they regain control of the gurney and right when we pass my friend remarks “Gonna have a hell of a time with all that dead weight they are trying to carry”.
I lose it and I am laughing all the way to Lancaster and again on the way home right as we pass the funeral home.
When we get to Gap, PA I remember “Auntie Anne’s Pretzel’s” is one of my customer and I’m starving. So we stop into Corporate HQ and I make a quick customer call.
Good timing.
Their corporate kitchen had just made up a batch of fresh pretzels.
So I’m talking with my customer and he’s headed over the kitchen to try some fresh pretzels. Quality Control.
He invites me and my friend to go with him.
We get there and he orders a plain pretzel and pours mustard all over this thing.
Not thinking I relay this story about the two old men and the corpse in intercourse.
Before I get to the punch line his eyes are already widening as he’s thinking the whole thing sounds funny and he wants to laugh but, he’s got a mouth of full of pretzel and mustard.
Just before I get to the punch line my friend says “Don’t tell him that. Don’t tell him that” she pleads, cuz she don’t want to look insensitive. She’s a guryl fer Chris Sake.
Too bad...for everyone.
So I deliver the punch line and this guy with a mouth full of pretzel and mustard starks nervously looking around. I later assume it’s because he needed to spit out his mouth full of loaf.
Well, he doesn’t find a place to spit out his mouth of pretzel and mustard. So he bends over, trying to staunch the oncoming laugh.
As he does, he sprays pretzel and mustard everywhere and all over himself.
My eyes go wide and as he starts laughing, I’m stunned and then I can’t help myself and then neither can my heartless friend, who eventually gets to the point of laughing so hard she can’t breathe.
Man! Here is this guy with mustard and bread all over himself laughing his ass off and so are we.
He actually had a change of clothes and just changed.
Told me never to talk anything but business next time I see him.
Saw him a month later and as I’m walking up, I guess we both have the previous encounter in our minds and have this stupid grin on our faces.
Just as we start to shake hands we both lose and as we both start trying to talk, sounding like little girls, in a high pitched voice he blurts out “Dead Weight!”.
We both collapse into our respective chairs laughing and probably took five minutes to get to business without laughing.
At the end of our meeting he says “Man. Your friend is pretty cold for a girl” a ended the sentence on a high pitched voice again.
We laughed all the way to the parking lot, wiping tears and it took me a minute or two before I felt comfortable putting my car in park and driving off.
LOL!!!
I live near Beaver Valley, Pa.
Great story! We live in Franklinville NJ, directly east of Wilmington. We haven’t been to Lancaster Co for some time. I understand many of the Amish are leaving for Ohio since it’s so crowded in Lancaster Co these days.
Probably not far from BlueBall but a good distance from Intercourse.......
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