Death by Beaver?

I always thought it was a slow thing

A shark bite, sure. That's definite cause for terror amongst the world's ocean swimming lot.
But Lillian Peterson wasn't swimming in an ocean. The 83-year-old was climbing out of the water after a dip in Virginia's Lake Barcroft when she felt an excruciating shot of pain on the back of her leg.
Turning her head around to see what attacked her, the Falls Church resident met with the deranged, beady eyes of a rabid beaver.
"It bit me so bad," Peterson told the Washington Post on the phone from her hospital bed. "I started kicking it with my other leg, but I wasn't sure what I would do."
The real estate agent's co-worker, Mike Korin, happened to be giving a fishing lesson at the lake that same night and witnessed the attack.
Korin told the Post that at around 6 p.m., he noticed a beaver splashing around the water — an unusual sight. Shortly after, he witnessed the animal making a beeline for Peterson.
"I heard horrible yelling and knew it was the real deal," he said. "She was saying, 'I can't get out of its grip. It's got me.'"
Before he could maneuver his boat to come to her aid, the beaver took a chunk out of Peterson's right calf, tried to gnaw off her thumb and left a series of bite marks all over her body.
But the athletic senior wasn't going down without a fight.
Peterson told the paper she tried to blind the beaver by grabbing a walking stick and aiming for its eyes.
But like the cyborg T-1000 in Terminator 2, the beaver could not be stopped.
After taking its pound of flesh, the beaver headed straight toward Korin's boat, perhaps seeking an escape route. Instead, it met with Korin's canoe paddle, with which he said he began to "savagely" beat the creature.
While the beating broke Korin's paddle, it only managed to stun the unflappable animal.
Using the brief respite to attend to his co-worker, Korin raced toward Peterson, only to watch as the beaver ran for them once more.
A few more blows with a broken paddle seemed to finally do the trick. The beaver lay still until an emergency medical crew arrived.
Then, just as they began to treat Peterson's wounds… "All of a sudden, the beaver flips over and comes back to life," Korin said.
A third beating, this time by paramedics, allowed Korin to trap the animal with a net.
This proved an effective tactic until animal control officers would arrive to put the creature down.
Between 12 and 15 beavers live in the lake, which serves as a popular recreational spot for suburban Washington boaters, fishermen, and swimmers, and no one can recall a similar attack.
Biologists believe these uncharacteristic attacks can often be traced to a case of rabies and police later confirmed the animal was, in fact, carrying the disease.
To add more pain to her already considerable ordeal, Peterson is also being treated for rabies with those gigantic needles your mother used to warn you about so you'd steer clear of raccoons.
Who would have ever believed Canada's national animal could prove so much more terrifying?


Rabid beaver proves a formidable foe in attack of 83-year-old woman | Daily Buzz - Yahoo! News Canada

Ok, when I read the title of this thread, I really thought this story would go in an entirely different direction.

But since it didn't...



Live in fear!

She must have provoked it. Old people have stick like legs as well.

It just goes to show you that no matter how seemingly friendly an animal is, you just never know if there is something wrong with it. Rabies is a nasty disease, and I am hoping that the rest of the beavers in the lake aren't infected with it as well.

That just screams sex appeal to the average beaver too.

**** you oh darkest one. My legs are FAT ------but very attractive and muscular-------oh yeth.

The moral being , don't mess with rabid beavers............??

If she can't afford the cost of an rabies shot, she's gonna die.


Nasty = fatal in the case of rabies. No known survivors before the vaccine came out.

Mostly if you see a friendly wild animal.............run. Or shoot it.

Probably just wanted to gnaw on the bark.

Now, now, SLM, nobody said anything about the beaver having a woody.

...which begs the question, did the beaver have a woody?

Beavers are ****ing crazy..... My chums and i found a beaver near the road a long way from water he was going in the right direction and we guessed he had another km to do till he found a river. Well we pulled over and the beaver was all bloody on its feet and legs from walking on the ground and it still managed to lunge a bit at my buddy when he got close. He didnt bite my buddy though, but tried

I expected a very different thread...

Each to their own, I always say.

Inquiring minds want to know.

That's what I said. Nice to know I'm no the only one who "goes there".

This also works if the thread goes the way I thought it would.





And finally.....

That thread has now been created. It's called the LOLBeaver thread.

Every spring, or whenever, mummy and daddy beaver kick the kids out of the house. Probably cause they feel the mating call and don't wanna do it in front of the yung'uns.

Lots of young beaver walking the streets in the spring. Or summer. Whenever. I forget.

Too old to follow the beaver exploits.

Suffice to say, they travel across land and creek, trying to find their own territory.

Lots of loose beaver.

Thank god for Canada.

Canada. Come for the Beaver.

That'll bring the tourists in!

..............Enjoy the fishing.............

That'l help the ones with lame pick up lines.

Check out e.bay.ca......................beaver

Lots of coats, hats, etc., but no actual CANADIAN BEAVER.

Sue the bastards.


nite all.

Good night, Nuggler.