[besson3c]

What is your craziest animal encounter?

A possum just showed up on our back porch, it is always interesting interacting with them.

Anybody here have an encounter with a predatory animal or something? Something unusual you found in the wild? A unicorn?

[Cubeoid]

I once was digging in my backyard for no reason, and found something wriggly, I later identified it as an earthworm, it bit me and then ran away.

[Tesseract]

I witnessed some hot squirrel-on-squirrel action once.

[SuvsareRetarded]

I got attacked by seagulls once.

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

I got attacked by seagulls once.

Me too. Did you get pooped on? I did.

Had a "run-in" with a llama once...

Almost walked into a moose...

[Fyre4ce]

I was on a golf course once and one hole had a water cooler, which was sitting inside a plywood enclosure. I went to get a drink and there was a squirrel behind the cooler. When it heard the water pouring out, it shot out like a bullet and jumped on me. It must have thought I was a tree or something because it paused for a fraction of a second and looked up at me. When it realized I was a person it jumped off and ran away.

Someone called the cops on me and a group of guys for "chasing a squirrel with a flame thrower." We actually shot off the flame thrower, then chased the squirrel. But it was a rabbit so they were wrong about that too.

We used to have raccoons that lived around our house and eat our garbage. They were very good at opening up the garbage cans and were thus very well fed. They ended up getting extremely (probably morbidly) fat, then all the sudden they disappeared. I'm guessing it was heart attacks. All the better; there's not half-eaten garbage scattered across the driveway every morning.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Fyre4ce

Someone called the cops on me and a group of guys for "chasing a squirrel with a flame thrower." We actually shot off the flame thrower, then chased the squirrel. But it was a rabbit so they were wrong about that too.

Are flame throwers legal where you live? Maybe the cops didn't like your flame thrower?

[SuvsareRetarded]

Originally Posted by AKcrab

Me too. Did you get pooped on? I did.

No, but I ran like hell. See, I was quite stoned at the time and I was walking with a friend, and we went past this place in milwaukee that is literally a 24-7 seagull orgy. It's just this empty field where THOUSANDS of seagulls hang out at, and ****. We were just minding our own business walking PAST this field, and then they got pissed off and territorial and started dive bombing us and chasing us. Man, that was scary as hell!

[TailsToo]

Attacked by a rooster when I was a kid.

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

See, I was quite stoned at the time...

Interesting. That's what lead to my llama encounter.

edit: Roosters can be crazy mean. I've been on the receiving end of some spurs.

[Face Ache]

I was once attacked by a swooping magpie on top of a hill, so I ran down the hill, straight into a swarm of bees. It really wasn't my day.

[Cubeoid]

When chased by bees, run to where the water is and then jump in the water, i learned that from cartoons.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

No, but I ran like hell. See, I was quite stoned at the time and I was walking with a friend, and we went past this place in milwaukee that is literally a 24-7 seagull orgy. It's just this empty field where THOUSANDS of seagulls hang out at, and ****. We were just minding our own business walking PAST this field, and then they got pissed off and territorial and started dive bombing us and chasing us. Man, that was scary as hell!

If you were high, how do you know they were seagulls?

[osiris]

Not really a crazy encounter, but a cool one to me:
I was hiking in the Adirondacks just after sunrise, and I nearly stepped on a sleeping fawn. It must have been very young - it was so small. Well, it woke up and just looked at me without any apparent fear. About ten minutes later I ran across about a dozen deer - stags, doe and older fawns - they all ran like hell.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

When chased by bees, run to where the water is and then jump in the water, i learned that from cartoons.

What if the bees are a super breed that can swim?

[SuvsareRetarded]

Originally Posted by besson3c

If you were high, how do you know they were seagulls?

Being high doesn't mean you hallucinate.

[Fyre4ce]

Originally Posted by besson3c

Are flame throwers legal where you live? Maybe the cops didn't like your flame thrower?

Not quite. I was working with some college buddies late at night, when someone got a can of Brake Cleaner and a lighter, and shot a big fireball up into the air (indoors, high ceiling). It wasn't long before we were outside shooting more big fireballs. Then we saw this rabbit that lived in the area was sitting there giving us the eye. So one guy shot a fireball at it (not "at it" with the intention of hitting it, just in its direction to scare it away). It, of course, ran away, and then everyone thought it would be fun to drop the stuff and chase after it. They (I didn't go) made a weak effort to corner it, but it easily escaped. With the excitement over, we got back to work. (I know what you're thinking - you guys are easily amused and have short attention spans. Well, when it's 4 am, you've been working for at least 12 hours, and you're running on nothing but caffeine and aspartame, you probably would be too.)

About fifteen minutes later, two cops show up at our lab and tell us that they got a report of someone "chasing a squirrel with a flame thrower." It was hilarious for both parties. I could tell it was all they could do to keep a straight face. It's a good thing they didn't talk to me because I would have burst out laughing. We, of course, denied any knowledge of such an event (after all, neither a flame thrower nor a squirrel was involved, and we didn't chase the animal with the flame thrower either). The cops told us to call them if we saw anything suspicious and left.

[Albert Pujols]

I was on some island near Bombay, and I thought I'd be a tough guy and run after a monkey. I started running toward it and it turned around, opend its mouth and hissed. It had extremely large teeth. Very sharp teeth. Next thing I knew I was being chased by a monkey. Good thing monkeys are lazy.. it gave up chasing me after 50 feet.

[SuvsareRetarded]

Originally Posted by Albert Pujols

I was on some island near Bombay, and I thought I'd be a tough guy and run after a monkey. I started running toward it and it turned around, opend its mouth and hissed. It had extremely large teeth. Very sharp teeth. Next thing I knew I was being chased by a monkey. Good thing monkeys are lazy.. it gave up chasing me after 50 feet.

[Demonhood]

had coyotes circle my tent in the middle of the night while i tried to sleep. i could hear their paws crunching the snow. at least it wasn't the bear whose prints we found earlier in the day, tracking us.

[MM-o4]

I remember feeding some monkeys when I was in Mylasia. All the little cute/innocent monkeys would come out and look at you. You couldn't help but feed them. So you give them something and thats when the big uglier monkey step on in all aggressive like 'give me food bid-atch'.
Kangaroo's will do the same thing to. Bloody manipulative young animals with their puppy dog eyes

MM

[ShortcutToMoncton]

1. A buddy and I once cornered a squirrel in his bird feeder on his back porch. Anyways, we were playing ball so I had my baseball glove on. He ran up the porch to get if off the birdfeeder, and the squirrel just jumped off, right at me, and I caught it in my glove by reflex. It went crazy, and I just threw it because I thought it was gonna ruin my glove. It ran up the side of the porch, got to the top, and jumped right off again. I caught it, intentionally this time. It was really weird.

2. When I was in high school, one night I went to run out our side door of the house. I yanked it open, and there was a moose about 3 feet away from me on our side walkway. It was winter...he got such a fright he tried to take off, slipped on the concrete walkway, fell down on one leg and then jumped up and took off.

3. My older cousin Neal shot a seagull with a BB gun off the wharf in Labrador. My other cousin Blake and I stood around and watched it float in to the beach, and once it got on land we managed to corner it and put it in a 10-gallon bucket. Anyways, we were walking back to his house, all proud at our noble rescue, when a bunch of older boys saw what we had. They took it down to the beach, and dropped some rocks on its head. Not a good scene.

4. Last winter in Jasper National Park, Alberta, my buddy and I took a trip up to Spirit Lake. There was a good bit of snow down and the lake was frozen, so we walked from the road down to the lake. I just stepped out on the ice when a moose jumped up from the bushes about 10 feet away where she'd been bedding. Anyways, she wasn't very scared, and I ended up following her from about 10 feet away for a half hour or so. It was pretty dangerous I know, but I got some decent shots and tried to keep at least a tree between me and her.

5. One morning when I was young we were sitting down at breakfast and a family friend who was in for the weekend pointed out the back patio window and said "Bear!" Sure enough, it was a black bear in my sandbox, of all things. It was a pretty young thing. It nosed around my Tonka toys for a bit, wandered up to our patio and was playing around when I slid open the patio door. It took off down into the forest in a flash...those things can really move.

6. One morning in Toronto, Ontario I was walking home at about 5 in the morning from an late-night tryst with my girlfriend. I heard a noise, turned around and there was a skunk about 15 feet away, on this person's lawn, just looking at me. I froze, looked around and lo and behold there was a beer bottle right next to me. I knelt down slowly, grabbed it, took aim and let it go...and took off running as fast as I could. I looked back just in time to see it get hit right in the head, go tumbling and then lift the tail. I never looked back. I pity the poor family the next morning though.

7. I was hiking up a creek by my house in Newfoundland when I was a teenager and saw a Newfoundland pine marten take off up a tree. They're an endangered species with only an estimated couple hundred left, and their future survival doesn't look good, so that was pretty special.

That seems to be all I've got at the moment.

greg

[besson3c]

My favorite are bear stories, because they are the scariest.

Bears are all terrorists.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

I knelt down slowly, grabbed it, took aim and let it go...and took off running as fast as I could. I looked back just in time to see it get hit right in the head, go tumbling and then lift the tail. greg

Why the hell would you throw a beer bottle at it? Stupid for more than one reason.

[SuvsareRetarded]

Originally Posted by besson3c

Bears are all terrorists.

Bears are incredible creatures.

[gururafiki]

When I was 14 months old I lived on a small farm, and one afternoon my dad couldn't find me. He searched around, and when he finally did find me, I was stuffing grass into his beehives and all his honeybees were flying around my head. He said he grabbed me as fast as he could and brought me inside, and I didn't have one sting on me. I guess bees don't mind grass so much.

[AKcrab]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

Bears are incredible creatures.

Cobert reference, I believe.

[Cubeoid]

Originally Posted by besson3c

What if the bees are a super breed that can swim?

That's just foolish besson3c. You should know better then this.

[ajprice]

Out last year cutting the grass, I emptied the grass box into a bin bag and a frog jumped out of the box. It had been in the long grass, through the lawnmower and into the grass box without a scratch on it, jumping happily away none the worse for its ride. I found out later that it had come from the neighbours pond in their back garden.

[TurboMac]

I had a buddy who had a Great Dane, real beautiful dog. Every time I would come over his house I would get out of the car and he would be there tied up in the garage. For some reason he was scared of me, beacuse everytime I got within 4 feet of him he would just piss himself. I started finding this amusing so everytime I came over I would do the same thing. Well one day I came over and did my normal routine, but this time was different. I let my gaurd down and turned away right after the tinckle. Well that was a mistake beacuse all of a sudden my @ss was on fire!!!! He had taken a chink out of my @ss, and took a lot of my pants with it. Needless to say I never tourmented that dog again. And I nver lived it down either.

I never owned a dog before this, but now I own 2. I guess he really taught me that there is a lot more to dogs then you think. They are like family and if you mess with them they will bit your @ss off!!!!

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

Bears are incredible creatures.

Yeah, you say that now...

Try having a picnic and having it interrupted by bears stealing all your food from your pickanic basket...

Try being a bee keeper and making honey, only to have all of your hard work ruined by these terrorists who want to steal all of your fine honey...

Try to hug a bear, and see what happens. They would probably claw off your arm.


There is no place on this planet for bears. They must be eradicated. This is why I voted for Gary Coleman.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Why the hell would you throw a beer bottle at it? Stupid for more than one reason.

There's just something so satisfying with knocking a skunk upside the head and getting away pain-free.

greg

[BlueSky]

As a teenager at some guys house with friends, we're in his playroom cellar. I was just feeling the first waves from some acid I'd taken earlier. Guy happens to mention his pet mouse had gotten away, keep an eye out for it. Just as he said it, the mouse ran across the floor at me and ran up the inside of my pants. I'm jumping up and down and otherwise making the others acutely aware of my current situation. The mouse is getting closer, if you know what I mean...I undo my pants, drop 'em, continuing to jump up and down to dislodge him , the guys are standing around laughing, the mouse is...finally out. Thanks guys, for all your help.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

There's just something so satisfying with knocking a skunk upside the head and getting away pain-free.

greg

What exactly? I "tall, intelligent man" throwing a beer bottle at a small harmless creature. Ya, I bet you slept much better knowing you harmed it.

[SuvsareRetarded]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

As a teenager at some guys house with friends, we're in his playroom cellar. I was just feeling the first waves from some acid I'd taken earlier. Guy happens to mention his pet mouse had gotten away, keep an eye out for it. Just as he said it, the mouse ran across the floor at me and ran up the inside of my pants. I'm jumping up and down and otherwise making the others acutely aware of my current situation. The mouse is getting closer, if you know what I mean...I undo my pants, drop 'em, continuing to jump up and down to dislodge him , the guys are standing around laughing, the mouse is...finally out. Thanks guys, for all your help.

Yeah I saw that in Iron Giant. Thanks for playing.

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded

Yeah I saw that in Iron Giant. Thanks for playing.

What is Iron Giant?

edit: Found it.

So some guy on acid had a mouse run up his leg in a children's cartoon? I'll bet the writer was one of the guys in the cellar that night.

[gururafiki]

Originally Posted by BlueSky

What is Iron Giant?

It's a cartoon movie.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

What exactly? I "tall, intelligent man" throwing a beer bottle at a small harmless creature. Ya, I bet you slept much better knowing you harmed it.

Just one "small, harmless creature" that's a nuisance, pest and spreads garbage all over your lawn, never mind stinks up the place.

I would've been much happier if I'd killed it.



greg

[KeriVit]

I went looking for my dog one night after she took off. I found her in a open field when I shined a light in her eyes. I walked toward her with the light fixed on her and once I was about 5 feet way realized it was a big buck, I fell back and the deer took off over me jumping through the air.

Needless to say, it wasn't my dog.

[wdlove]

Originally Posted by TailsToo

Attacked by a rooster when I was a kid.

I had that happen to me also. It's very scary. Was it a white rooster.

[Tenacious Dyl]

I was trapped on top of a small mountain by a caribou. Me and the person climbing with me were in Denali National Park (Alaska) and after an all morning / mid-afternoon climb / scrambling, we ended up on a very high-up point which jutted out, and cracked some lunch out. When we turned around there was a caribou blocking the only safe direction back down the mountain. They are MUCH larger than you would think We watched him for probably 30-40 minutes, until he took a dump and headed back down. I was quite mystified

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by MM-o4

I remember feeding some monkeys when I was in Malaysia. All the little cute/innocent monkeys would come out and look at you. You couldn't help but feed them. So you give them something and thats when the big uglier monkey step on in all aggressive like 'give me food bid-atch'.
Kangaroo's will do the same thing to. Bloody manipulative young animals with their puppy dog eyes

MM

Would that be at the Batu Caves by any chance? Here's Veronica/Vechas' crazy encounter:




They can however be immensely cute:



From this thread.

[JoshuaZ]

When I was studying abroad in Osaka, Japan my host family took me to Nara to see a really cool temple. All around the temple complex are these little deer, who just thrive on the food poeple give them. Also because venders sell deer food, and the deer expect everyone to give it to them. Anyways, my host brother, who is only 4, is running back to his Mom when he spooks a doe and she takes off after him. She jumps up on her hind legs and doesn`t actually touch the little guy, but scares the heck out of him as he falls over. Only after a can of Fanta is he back to his genki self.

[Azzgunther]

My family and I were driving through the mountains in south Colorado/Utah and as we neared the top of a hill on the curving road we came upon about 30 DUMB looking sheep. I don't think they were Colorado Mountain Sheep; they were small and cross eyed. Anyway, we were in the middle of the road waiting for them to get out of the way for about 15 minutes. Beeping. Yelling. Threatening. When you got their attention they just turned to look at you and said "Bahhahhhhh" before going back to whatever they were doing. One had a shoe in its mouth.

[demograph68]

Originally Posted by Demonhood

had coyotes circle my tent in the middle of the night while i tried to sleep. i could hear their paws crunching the snow. at least it wasn't the bear whose prints we found earlier in the day, tracking us.

I had that happen with me once as well as a couple of bears that got in our tent and car. They took our toilet paper. I wonder why.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Azzgunther

My family and I were driving through the mountains in south Colorado/Utah and as we neared the top of a hill on the curving road we came upon about 30 DUMB looking sheep. I don't think they were Colorado Mountain Sheep; they were small and cross eyed. Anyway, we were in the middle of the road waiting for them to get out of the way for about 15 minutes. Beeping. Yelling. Threatening. When you got their attention they just turned to look at you and said "Bahhahhhhh" before going back to whatever they were doing. One had a shoe in its mouth.

hehehe.. that's awesome. Especially the sheep with a shoe in its mouth. Do you have pics?

I like dumb animals that put shoes in their mouths.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

They can however be immensely cute:



From this thread.

I downloaded that one last night and it is the new wallpaper on my iBook. Excellent photo.

[Azzgunther]

Originally Posted by besson3c

hehehe.. that's awesome. Especially the sheep with a shoe in its mouth. Do you have pics?

I like dumb animals that put shoes in their mouths.

I think my dad might have taken some. I'll check with him about it this weekend.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by dcmacdaddy

I downloaded that one last night and it is the new wallpaper on my iBook. Excellent photo.

Thank you. One in a million