What is the craziest wildlife encounter you've experienced?
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I’ll go most to least tame: -I trained a backyard chipmunk to climb into my hand and eat seeds. -While camping outside with friends, one of my friends passed out early and was smacking in his sleep. When I walked over to shush him, I found the smacking was a raccoon licking Dorito powder off his cheek. -While body boarding, I was pulled out past the break by the undertow when I saw that everyone on the beach was waving me in. While working my way in a shark fin popped up about 10 feet from me. He circled me all the way into shore where he got caught in a wave and tossed on the beach. While hunting in Maine as a teen, I was walking across a field. I heard a noise and looked to the side to see a Moose scratching at the ground and snorting at me. I had borrowed a rifle from my uncle and was not familiar with it (30-40 sporterized Krag). The Moose charged. It was illegal to shoot Moose in Maine, I knew I couldn't get away. I flipped the safety, aimed at his head, hoped he'd stop or turn, he didn't. At about 30ft I pulled the trigger … I'd flipped the safety the wrong way, realized what I'd done, lowered the rifle to change the safety and the Moose did a 90. He walked off, I took two steps and stepped into his last hoofprint. Close enough! Very unusual for a Moose to charge a man. I was high as a kite on Lebanese hash and there was a 24 hour garage about 45 minutes away on foot. Only catch was it was 3am and the only way to get to the garage in 45 minutes was to cut through the countryside. About three or four fields in we stumbled into a field full of bulls and got chased for our lives. I've still got a scar on my leg where I had to hop a barbed wire fence. Another time my friend told me he could get us into the zoo for free by hopping over a wall. He wanted to show us it was easy, so scrambled to the top of this wall. No problem. He was literally about to drop down onto the other side when he screamed and fell backwards off the wall. Turns out they'd moved things around since his last visit, and he was seconds away from leaping into the enclosure for the maned wolves. I was high as a kite on Lebanese hash and there was a 24 hour garage about 45 minutes away on foot That explains a lot. by hopping over a wall. He wanted to show us it was easy, so scrambled to the top of this wall. No problem. He was literally about to drop down onto the other side when he screamed and fell backwards off the wall. Looks like walls work. 0
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I was hiking in the Cascades. I set up camp and started a fire. Shortly afterwards, I was surrounded by a raving pack of tree huggers who tried to extinguish my fire. They claimed i was endangering the poor trees. I always go armed when I'm in wilderness areas. I pulled out my Ruger Super Blackhawk and fired a round into the air and they all ran away. Unfortunately, not before one of them defecated on my extinguished fire. Next time, I'll shoot them on sight. While out walking in a remote valley in China one pleasant afternoon I suddenly came face to face with a fire snorting, growling dragon. I quickly administered a whack on it's ugly head with my newspaper, The Beijing Bugle, and like all cowardly dragons it, very predictably, ran off whimpering and sniffling back to THE DRAGON'S DEN. Do you remember the encounter? |
