Man killed by beaver.

[edbermac]

A 60-year-old fisherman died after trying to take a picture of a beaver on a trip to Lake Shestakov in Belarus, Sky News reported Thursday.

After the angler moved closer to the beaver for a photo, it grabbed onto his thigh and severed an artery. Despite his friends' attempts to stop the blood flow, the man died before they could get medical help.

Sergei Shilinchuk, an environmental official in Brest, Belarus, told the Telegraph that beaver attacks are rare and that he'd never heard of a beaver killing someone.

"People have lost fingers -- that's the worst I've come across. The beaver is not normally aggressive, but it does have big teeth and immensely powerful jaws; it can cut down a tree three feet wide," Shilinchuk said.

He added that the fisherman and his friends should have thought twice before approaching it.

"A beaver is a wild animal, after all," he said.

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/04/11/VIDEO-Camera-shy-beaver-kills-man-trying-to-take-his-photo/8931365710123/

Let the bad jokes begin.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. SAVE AN ANGLER

EAT A BEAVER

[In_The_Wind]

3. How does one prepare a beaver to be eaten.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. SLOWLY

[In_The_Wind]

8. Carefully.

Slowly sounds good.

[rurallib]

32. marinate in juices

[In_The_Wind]

35. always

[lastlib]

15. first you pull the skin back........

Okay, TMI!

[In_The_Wind]

19. .

[Art_from_Ark]

21. Maybe you can ask Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies

She knows how to cook "hot beaver, cold beaver, young and very old beaver"

[In_The_Wind]

22. I am so pleased that everyone is so interested in helping me with my beaver

question one could only imagine if I had ask something of a personal nature

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. Tastefully.

How did I miss this thread yesterday?

Oh, yeah, I got a job. Work really cuts into the really important stuff.

[In_The_Wind]

29. Congratulations on your new job!

Is it something you really wanted or just a job?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Thanks. It's something I was seeking.

I was laid off. I guess I could have stayed retired, but had to find something.

I was just about to start a no-pay volunteer gig preparing taxes when this actual paying job came along, I like what I'm doing, learning a lot, but the whole 40-hour (more like 45) thing really cuts into the DU time.

I'll keep doing this for a few years, hopefully, then get a part-time job, maybe at Greenfield Village, following the horse-drawn carriages around with a shovel and wheelbarrow. (every geezer's dream job)

[Kennah]

33. Does farm raised beaver taste different from wild beaver?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

37. ALL BEAVERS ARE WILD

Yes indeed.

[Kennah]

38. Excellent point. I suppose I should really ask ...

... whether beavers that grow up on farms taste different from beavers that grow up elsewhere.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

39. MORE RESEARCH IS REQUIRED BEFORE WE KNOW FOR SURE.

Much more.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Wow!

[rrneck]

4. Honey Beaver don't give a fuck. nt

[bluedigger]

6. One more reason to arm bears.

[olddots]

7. Naw I'll get in trouble

next !

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. Your Subject line gave me the most interesting visual I've had in a while. Thank you!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

10. That man could have been saved if someone had bothered to give him a camera

with a long-lens for Christmas.

[NewJeffCT]

26. I wonder if his last thoughts were

"I told my wife we should have gotten the 20x zoom camera, and not the 5x zoom"

[clam happy]

11. No jokes here.

RIP

[undeterred]

12. Snapping turtles are also dangerous, I've heard.

I worry about my dog messing with one of these or a beaver and getting bitten. You're out in the middle of nowhere and start to bleed- you better know some first aid. They are just defending themselves, after all.

[lastlib]

17. You're darn-tootin' right they are!!

DO NOT let one of these bad boys get hold of a body part!!

[Arctic Dave]

13. Must... not... make... sexu...

AHHHHHHHHHHH!

[stevenleser]

14. In terms of wild animals, it's not predators that kill most people

probably because most people know to be weary of them. It's animals like these that are defending themselves that kill people.

[lastlib]

16. what a way to go!!

[Generic Brad]

18. Leave it to beaver

I can't believe I am the first one in the Lounge to throw this out there.

[MrScorpio]

20. If we outlaw beavers, then only outlaws will have beavers.

Have beaver, will travel.

They can have my beaver when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.






Beavers don't kill people…

Oh, fuck it. Yes, they do.

[Bucky]

30. You forgot one

A well beavered society is a polite society.

[nomorenomore08]

23. Cute little fella. Even if he did sever a guy's femoral artery.

nt

[lastlib]

24. Paparazzi, take note!

[In_The_Wind]

25. Indeed!

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[RiffRandell]

27. That's one aggressive beaver.

They're so damn cute, too.

[Kennah]

34. Something of a "Man Bites Beaver" headline

[krispos42]

36. Nice beaver!

Thanks, I just had it stuffed.





















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