Not just crocs and sharks

[Miss Chicken]

but even the kangaroos in Australia have turned vicious.

A man has been attacked by a kangaroo while trying to rescue his dog from a dam at Arthurs Creek, north-east of Melbourne.
The 49-year-old man dived into the dam to rescue his dog, which was being held down by the kangaroo.
But the kangaroo turned on him, leaving the man with deep cuts and scratches to his upper body.
"He suffered a deep cut across his abdomen, a deep cut across his face and eye and a number of scratches to his chest, face and arms," paramedic Michael Vosbergen said.

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So I am going to ask you all if you have ever been attacked by any sort of wildlife, or seen someone attacked, no matter how big and small that wildlife was.

Myself - I have been bitten once by a spider, twice stung by wasps (once on the eyelid and once on the bum) and I once sat on a nest of bullants and was bitten numerous times.

One of my friends picked up an echidna and it peed all over her (it really smelt).

I also know one boy who was bitten on the finger by a baby Tasmanian devil.

 

[thestrangequark]

In high school my math teacher was chased up a tree by a cougar and called 911 from his cell phone. He was on the morning news, which we all watched, glued to our seats, during class. Both he and the lion survived unharmed.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Once I was visiting my grandparents' farm and a bull came charging at me. It got to the fence and turned back. I don't think it could have jumped, so I was never in any real danger.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I've been bitten by spiders a few times, stung by a bees, got bitten by a dog (not wildlife, but whatever), got stung by jellyfish, had leeches latch onto me, and had a rattlesnake lunge at me once when I almost stepped on it while hiking. I've seen black bears and mountain lions in the wild, but they didn't attack.

 

[thestrangequark]

^I was stung by jellyfish too, a swarm of them. I swam right through them; it felt like getting hit with hail, or pricked by hundreds of tiny little needles.

As for bees, when I was 5 my summer camp troupe were playing sardines in the woods. A little boy and I hid inside an amazing, hollow bush with a stump in the center just the right size for us to sit on. Unfortunately, the stump contained a beehive, and we were soon chased from the woods by hundreds of bees. The adults had to tear off our clothes, all full of bees, and call ambulances. I was a fast runner and escaped with a half a dozen stings and an epi-pen injection. The boy was stung over 30 times, and was taken to the hospital. He turned out okay, though.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I was bitten by a lizard once. That's how I gained strength and dexterity proportional to that of an iguana (which are significantly less than those of a normal human, so... yeah).

I was also chased by a swarm of bees when I was a kid because I got accidentally too close to a beehive, but I was lucky enough to reach safety distance before getting stung, and they retreated.

 

[Cicero]

When I was one, I lived on a farm, where I was regularly easy prey for (thankfully vegetarian) sheep. I was afraid of them for years; my parents had only to baa out the window and I'd come running into the house.

In high school, I was once bitten by a spider during a military inspection. It crawled into the back of my uniform collar, crawled around to the front, and bit me just before I was inspected. I stood my turn at inspection, requested permission to fall out, and bolted for the barracks to open up my uniform shirt and get it out. Spider-Man had come out about a month before, so my nickname for the summer quickly became the name of the wall-crawler.

I also was attacked by dogs several times while canvassing door-to-door during the 2004 election. Fortunately, I learned early that they didn't know what to make of an umbrella suddenly opened and thrust toward them, and, all but once, was able to give the owners time to subdue them. That once, I spent about five minutes jumping back and forth over a short fence as a loose pit bull tried to catch me by running around the fence's side. I eventually made a break for it, and the dog lost interest.

 

[Jono]

Just the usual, ants, bees, stingy insects, chased by a swan...nothing the average person doesn't have to put up with.

I was attacked by a goat once. It tried to eat my pants.

 

[MANT!]

I was with some friends on my first hunting trip..we were looking for a good hunting spot when I (in the lead) was attacked from behind by a completely spooked doe..

She ran me over from behind..and my friends laughed that I had been "Bagged by a deer"..for WEEKS afterwards.....I haven't been hunting since..

 

[iguana_tonante]

When I was one, I lived on a farm, where I was regularly easy prey for (thankfully vegetarian) sheep. I was afraid of them for years; my parents had only to baa out the window and I'd come running into the house.

Have you seen the New Zealand's movie Black Sheep?

In high school, I was once bitten by a spider during a military inspection.

Did you have military in high schools?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I was stalked by a Coyote once when I was hiking in the Blue Hills before sunrise, but it never attacked.

And I was chased by a few dogs when I was a kid before there were leash laws.

And, of course, there as the infamous Goose attack in New Hampshire....

 

[thestrangequark]

^Oh yeah, the dog. I didn't realize I'd run-in with so many animals! When I was 2 my grandmother took me to the park where I was attacked by a large black dog that got me by the throat. I don't recall much of the incident, though I remember that it happened at the bottom of the slide. There are a bunch of photos of me as a tot with a big bandage tied around my head, and I still have a small scar on my chin as a result.
Fortunately we had a dog of our own and I remained comfortable around dogs without ever developing a phobia.

 

[Cicero]

In high school, I was once bitten by a spider during a military inspection.

Did you have military in high schools?

I was in NJROTC. (And the US Naval Sea Cadets and Civil Air Patrol.) The spider-bite took place at the summer leadership academy evolution.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I was in NJROTC. (And the US Naval Sea Cadets and Civil Air Patrol.) The spider-bite took place at the summer leadership academy evolution.

No idea what it is, had to look it up on wiki.

In my mind, military schools are someplace you are sent if you set your school on fire and piss on the principal. YMMV, of course.

 

[MANT!]

I was in NJROTC. (And the US Naval Sea Cadets and Civil Air Patrol.) The spider-bite took place at the summer leadership academy evolution.

No idea what it is, had to look it up on wiki.

In my mind, military schools are someplace you are sent if you set your school on fire and piss on the principal. YMMV, of course.

Like the following..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr4NcRN2Uw

You get a goddamn job
before sundown,

or we're shipping you off
to military school

with that goddamn
Finkelstein shit kid!

Son of a bitch!

 

[Rii]

and had a rattlesnake lunge at me once when I almost stepped on it while hiking

Yeah, this, except I didn't hang around to see what kind of snake it was.