Friday, September 24, 2010

Woman kills rabid fox with bare hands


A woman in Eastern Pennsylvania had to think fast after being attacked by a fox. Rachel Cohen went to a friend's house so the two of them could go for a walk. A fox emerged from a drain spout, and the animal immediately started trying to bite Cohen's ankles.

Not only did Cohen need to defend herself, but she also wanted to kill it. "I was just focused on, 'Must, must keep the animal so they can test it for rabies,' and, you know, obviously, you don't keep a wild animal. It had to be dead," said Cohen.

"It felt like a life-and-death battle with the forces of good and evil," added witness Karen de Balbian Verster. Cohen eventually smothered the fox with a plastic bag.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says the fox tested positive for rabies, and Cohen is now getting rabies shots. She was not bitten during the attack, but she did get scratched.


Angler catches and is bitten by fish with ... human teeth?

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After reeling in what he assumed was a catfish or a carp during a recent night-fishing expedition on South Carolina's Lake Wylie, the angler reached down to grab his prize and it chomped down on his thumb.

Yarborough realized then that it was no catfish or carp, but an odd-looking denizen that clearly did not belong anywhere near Lake Wylie.

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But that's not the creepy part. The fish brandished teeth resembling those of a human. They looked like an older man's dentures, but were yellowish, as if from a person who never brushed.

"They looked as though the fish had chewed tobacco all its life," said Robert Stroud, a fisheries biologist for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

Yarborough, presumably after washing his hands and disinfecting the molar-like imprint on his thumb, delivered the 5-pound, 19-inch specimen to the DNR and it was identified as a type of pacu, whose habitat is the Amazon River basin in South America.

Stroud said the teeth of a pacu sometimes grind down to where they resemble molars. According to lore, he added, some Amazonian tribesmen used to wear sets of pacu teeth around their necks, as if they were wearing human teeth, to intimidate enemies.

Pacus are popular among aquarium keepers and Stroud believes the fish Yarborough caught had been an aquarium pet that grew too large for its tank and was set free in Lake Wylie, which straddles the Carolinas.

The biologist stressed that dumping non-native fish from aquariums into lakes is illegal and ecologically harmful. Other exotic species caught in Lake Wylie have included a red oscar and a voracious snakefish.

Yarborough, 40, who lives in Clover, is proud of his pacu catch and said during an interview this week that the fish is in his freezer but will soon be delivered to the local taxidermist.

"Even before I knew what it was, I knew I was going to have it mounted," he said.

JOKE: The Horse Don't Look So Good

horse whiteA rich man's daughter wanted a white horse for her birthday gift. He saw a poor man with a beautiful white stallion and asked to buy it. "I'll give you $500 for that horse," he said.

The poor man replied, "I don't know, mister; it don't look so good."

The rich man searched everywhere, but couldn't find a horse as fine, so he found the same man and this time offered him $1,000 for his horse. The poor man said, "I don't know, mister; it don't look so good."

On the day before his daughter's birthday, the rich man was desperate. "I'll give you $2,000 for that horse," he begged. The poor man needed the money, so he agreed, and the rich man took his horse home. His daughter absolutely loved her present. She leapt onto the horse and took off at a gallop... right into a tree! The rich man found the poor man and demanded an explanation for the horse's blindness.

The poor man replied, "Remember? I told you it don't look so good!"

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Woman says flying fish almost killed her



It's a fish tale that Jennifer Herrin of Nesbit, Mississippi admits may sound almost unbelievable. Herrin said, "It was unbelievable. It was like fish, fish! People wouldn't believe a fish could do that to you." She and her family were at Tunica Lake inner-tubing behind a boat when the unthinkable happened.

Herrin said, "All of a sudden we got to one area of the lake when hundreds of fish started jumping out the water everywhere." In what seemed like a scene from a horror movie, hundreds of Asian Carp went on the attack damaging the family's boat and hitting Herrin. Herrin said, "I remember going under water and trying to get back to the top to get a breath and I couldn't get to the top. The fish kept me under water and I remember thinking this is it. This is my last breath."

It was also frightening for her husband and son. Herrin said, "He was screaming to his son I don't see her. I don't see her and finally the fish moved and my life jacket floated to the top of the water and they spotted my life jacket." Her husband jumped in to save her because she wasn't breathing and her collarbone was broken. Herrin said, "The action of him swimming and his arm going up against his stomach so hard pushed some of the water out and started choking and started spitting water back up and actually came back to."

Jennifer Herrin says she won't ever get back into the water again at Tunica Lake and warns others to be careful. Herrin said, "I wouldn't swim. I wouldn't tube or ski and if you're out there just be very, very cautious." Herrin also says she hopes the Mississippi Wildlife and Fishery agency will eventually place warning signs at Tunica Lake to let people know what might be in the water.

VIDEO: Four dolphins kept in dirty 30ft swimming pool

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Animal campaigners aretrying to rescue four dolphins being kept in a filthy swimming pool just 30ft square by 13ft deep. The bottlenoses, two male and two female, were found by a British man working in Egypt who was alerted by their distinctive cry.

He found them shielded from view by a tarpaulin in the back yard of the tatty villa in Hurghada on the Red Sea coast. The water is so filthy the 6ft dolphins disappear from view when they dive. And they swim in their own excrement because the filtration system is unable to cope.

Concerned Egyptian wildlife campaigners are desperately trying to help the new dolphins, which they fear may die if they are not rescued. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association have taken up the case.

HEPCA says the villa's owner claims the dolphins were caught in Japanese waters and not illegally in the Red Sea. Pete Johnson, 47, from Lancashire, who found them, said: "The water is disgusting. The dolphins are forced to live in their mess and close to one another."

Vampire bats kill five children in Peru

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At least five children living in Peru's northern Amazon jungle region have died after being bitten by rabid vampire bats, the health ministry said on Wednesday. At least five children living in Peru's northern Amazon jungle region have died after being bitten by rabid vampire bats, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The victims, all aged between five and 10, were members of the Awajun and Wampis communities living in the province of Condorcanqui, 620 miles north of Lima on the border with Ecuador. Fernando Borjas, a medical doctor with the health directorate in the regional capital Chachapoyas, said that the rabies outbreak has been going on for several months.

Health authorities have sent teams with vaccines to the remote jungle villages, but after a 15 hour river trip they often arrive too late. "I cannot discount the death toll mounting, because unfortunately we cannot get them the vaccines quickly enough because the communities are so remote," Mr Borjas said.

Mr Borjas said that the two communities have reported that 3,500 people were bitten by vampire bats this year. "These bats feed at night, and since they do not find large animals they bite unprotected people," Mr Borjas added. At least 20 people, both children and adults, have been killed in total this year in the region after they were bitten by rabid bats, officials said.

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JOKE: A couple about to be married go in for their exam

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A couple that are about to be married go in for their exam. Afterwards,the doctor called the guy into his office and tells him that he has some good news and some bad news. "The good news," he explained, "is that your fianc�e has a particular strain of gonorrhea that I have only heard of once before."

The guy paled. "If that's the good news, then what the hell is the bad news?"

"Well," the doctor elaborated, "the bad news is that I only heard about this nasty strain just last week from my dog's vet."

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