Posted on 08/02/2014 10:14:42 AM PDT by aimhigh
Bryce Moser, of Marysville, and his grandmother, Lelani Grove, were both expected to survive their injuries, family members said. Grove has "hundreds of stitches" and a significant eye injury, while Moser has nine staples in his head and cuts all over his body.
"I just hear him screaming, 'Help! Get it off of me! Get it off of me!' and he goes underwater," said Moser's mother, Tabitha. "And then he comes up and I see the thing all the way on top of his head."
"(The otter) had him by the back of his head and it was holding him down," added witness Dean Springer, Bryce's great-uncle. "Just the whole body was wrapped around him."
"It immediately went to the same position on the top of her head and had hands on her eyes and was biting the back of her head," Moser continued. "As I'm hitting it with an umbrella and trying to get it off of her, it's just getting more and more mad."
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We used to liveaboard in the San Juans, WA. and fished, recreationally, for Salmon. A number of times you’d fight a salmon for a while and then the line would pay out radically, then release. Invariably you’d real in a Salmon w/ the belly missing. Then the otter would do the backstroke while he dined.
Thanks. Wow, they’re really strong, too! He dragged that rat around, probably twice his weight, like it weighed nothing at all. Straight up the wall.
Imagine if the otter was in an SUV?!
You need to get back to your Bible. All this is explained in the book of Genesis.
Natives along the Amazon in South America call otters “River Wolves”
Then there’s the Honey Badger. Nothing can stop the Honey Badger. It’s pretty badass.
You otter be careful out there.
I “think” he’s kidding.
It will badger you until it gets your honey?
Yep. Otters do get rabies. I remember a few years ago there was an FR thread about a man attacked by a rabid otter.
Teens savagely attacked by wild river otter describe it as a scene out of ‘Jaws’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teens-recall-otter-attack-article-1.1411469
http://i.cbc.ca/1.1519497.1379102231!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/hi-bc-130813-otter3-4col.jpg
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/bozemandailychronicle.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/56/55610d6e-f328-11e2-b733-0019bb2963f4/51edc377851cf.preview-300.jpg
A Fig Plucker? lol. Talk about an ‘accidental slip o the tongue’ waiting to happen. And it WILL happen! I can’t even think of the phrase without reversing the letters in my head.
Like a log in a cloggin contest...
I believe that any mammal can get rabies.
Yes, Honey Badger just doesn’t care.
Three times fast as you can.
My favorite drinkin joke...
Otters with guns bump.
I wasn't anywhere NEAR the place!
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