Posted on 05/29/2013 4:33:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It was the most serious in a string of beaver attacks on humans in Belarus, as the rodents have turned increasingly aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools.
The fisherman wanted his photo shot with a beaver. The beaver had other ideas: It attacked the 60-year-old man with razor-sharp teeth, slicing an artery and causing him to bleed to death.
It was the most serious in a string of beaver attacks on humans in Belarus, as the rodents have turned increasingly aggressive when confronted by humans after wandering near homes, shops and schools.
“The character of the wound was totally shocking for us medical professionals,” recalled village doctor Leonty Sulim. “We had never run into anything like this before.”
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And the Democrat party loses one of their own genius voters
I dispute the claim that b evers damage forests. Farms yes but not forests. Indivual trees of course but not forests.
Beware of man eating beavers. That’s my new T-shirt idea.
Beavers enhance swamps.
In Yellowstone years ago they told us a family placed their kid on a buffalo, resulting in him being tossed about a hundred feet.
And I believe it because even after hearing that story, I produced a video tape of myself and other idiot tourists inching closer to a moose, including the panicked run when it charged.
I used to live in Beaver creek
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I have a military survival guide which says you can swing a beaver by the tail and kill it by smashing it into a tree. However, the guide warns to be careful because “the beaver is a considerable animal”.
“That must be some beaver.”
“Bite your head off man.”
Let this be a lesson to us all: Never trust strange hairy beavers.
"Oh, Ward! Don't you think you're being a little hard on the Beaver?"
Just wait until someone seeks medical help for turtle injuries! Hey, that is covered under obamacare.
In colonial times it was thought that prostitutes spread veneral diseases through contact with their pubic area, so the women were made “bald” in that area for health reasons. However, their clients did not like that look and business began to suffer. Therefore, pubic wigs, called merkins, were manufactured for the prostitutes. These merkins were made out of beaver pelts. Hence the term beaver. Learned this on a historical tour of Philadelphia.
Years and years ago, when I was in high school, I had a regular satirical newspaper column in our school paper.
One addition I accurately quoted a desk dictionary in the journalism classroom on the definition of “beaver”. It went something like:
A small warm blooded, brown furred, mammal with a wide flat broad muscular tail and nocturnal feeding habits.
As it was not my first transgression, my column was put on mandatory hiatus for the next two additions.
Apparently this beaver was not eager?
Anyone read “ZOO” by James Patterson?
Hmmm, you went on a red light tour of Philadelphia?
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