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I can’t imagine having a fish puke a human body part on me but that’s exactly what happened to Humphrey Simmons this past weekend. Simmons and some friends were fishing in deep water roughly 38 miles from Nassau when Simmons hooked into the large shark. As Simmons wasn’t targeting sharks and didn’t particularly want to deal with one he asked his friend Stanley Bernard to get the boat’s shotgun. Bernard did and quickly put several rounds into the fish’s head when it surfaced.
The men then tied a rope around the shark’s tail and pulled it to the boat. Simmons explained, “We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot — intact from the knee down.” [ Read Full Post ]
UPDATE: A mile-long sheen is now visible near the site of the oil rig explosion. The sheen is about 100 feet wide, but it is unknown how much oil has been leaked.
The Associated Press reports that another offshore oil platform has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday. The rig is about 100 miles off the coast of Louisiana and it's west of the Deepwater Horizon site.
Thirteen people were on the rig when it exploded, but no one was killed in the blast. One person was injured, but the extent of the injury is not known.
Officials also do not yet know what caused the explosion or if any oil is is leaking into the Gulf. The platform is located in 340 feet of water and is owned by Mariner Energy of Houston. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the platform was not producing oil and gas at the time of the explosion. [ Read Full Post ]
People in the affluent Cape Town suburb of Constantia, South Africa are being overrun by drunken baboons.
Ok, not all of the baboons are drunk. But many are. All of them however, are destructive, frightening and deadly.
At the 325-year-old vineyard Groot Constantia the primates have stripped vines of fruit, entered and raided kitchens and other rooms, and ripped thatch off the roofs. Some have eaten fallen grapes that have fermented in the sun only to pass out. Away from the vineyard, baboons have killed farm and ornamental birds (such as peacock) and pets as large as a Great Dane. [ Read Full Post ]
A teenage girl was attacked by a coyote while she was sleeping in a national park campground in Nova Scotia on Monday morning. The park, called Cape Brenton Highlands National Park, was the same location two coyotes attacked and killed 19-year-old singer Taylor Mitchell last fall. That attack marked the first recorded time a coyote has killed ever killed an adult. [ Read Full Post ]
You think Texas has a wild boar problem? Well the Lone Star State swine got nothing on the hogs in Germany. According to German newspaper Spiegel Online, wild radioactive boars are wreaking havoc in forests and towns. Recently, a man in a wheelchair was attacked by a boar in a park in Berlin, and in July a herd of two dozen hogs tromped through a town called Eisenach.
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The mother grizzly that attacked and killed a camper and injured two others outside of Yellowstone National Park was captured on Thursday and will be euthanized. However the 400-pound sow’s three cubs have been sentenced to a gentler fate. Wildlife officials said on Friday morning that the cubs would be sent to zoos and were destined for a life in captivity. All of the three cubs have already been trapped.
Officials are awaiting DNA results to make sure they have the right bear, but at this point, the evidence seems to be insurmountable. To trap the bear, wildlife officials used pieces of the deceased camper’s tent and sleeping bag as bait. They set the bait in a large trap at the campsite, and it didn’t take long for the bear to return. Then, they left the mother bear in the trap knowing that her cubs wouldn’t go far.
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At 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning at least one bear ravaged a campsite near Yellowstone National Park, killing one man and leaving two others wounded. The other campers fled the site and hid in their cars to escape being attacked. Authorities have not yet released the names of the victims.
The attacks occurred at the Soda Butte campground in the Gallatin National Forest.The campground has been shutdown and wildlife officials are still scrambling to figure out exactly what happened.
"We don't know if it was one bear, two bears, a black bear or grizzly bear," Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim told the Associated Press. "Obviously, the bear's gone now. Will it come back tonight? That's the question.”
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For years we’ve watched Jack Hanna appear on late night television shows handling exotic animals and wowing crowds, but on a recent hiking trip, Jungle Jack got a little more than even he could handle. Hanna was hiking with his wife in Glacier National Park when they were approached by a mother grizzly bear and her two cubs. They were on a narrow trail with a steep cliff on one side.
Hanna, a television personality and the director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, backed down the trail with his wife. They talked loudly and backpedaled down the trail with the grizzlies following close behind when they eventually ran into five more hikers, including a man and his 10-year-old son.
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“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”
The day I’ve feared since the first time I saw The Planet of the Apes late one Saturday night on channel 39 at age 11 is almost upon us. The day when apes will become the dominant species on the planet and humans like you and me will be forced to wear filthy loin cloths, live in cages, and face the threat of scientific experimentation is coming. Fortunately, Afghanistan will fall to the monkeys before North America does. That is if everything goes as planned. And that’s a big if considering we’re talking about “damned dirty apes” raising arms in a jihad against the West. [ Read Full Post ]
Written by Steve Harrigan, FOX News Channel correspondent who has been reporting live from Grand Isle, Louisiana on the BP Gulf Oil Spill:
There was a two-foot high wall of sand about fifty feet from the water in Grand Isle, Louisiana when I arrived in early June. The beach is open, officials said, but the water is closed. An open beach without water in 90 degree heat. As the weeks went by the beach itself began to look less like a beach and more like an industrial park. Tents were set up and portable toilets were put out on the sand every 400 yards. You could tell everything was being done by a book of rules somewhere, however out of touch that book might be with facts on the ground. The port-a-potties outnumbered the cleanup workers, but there must be some rule about how many or how close they need to be to the workers. [ Read Full Post ]
On the long list of things a husband should share with his wife, here at the Newshound we’ve just added one extremely important new item specifically for the male owners of personal-protection firearms.
As soon as he purchases a new handgun, it’s likely that the first thing a Georgia man will do is inform his wife where he intends to hide it.
If he wants to wants to stay married, that is. [ Read Full Post ]
According to the Associated Press, eighty-one-year-old Don Minnaert fell fifteen feet into the frigid waters of Hennepin Canal when he refused to cut his line against a monster bass.
Minnaert was actually targeting panfish last May 13 in his native Geneseo, Illinois when he tumbled into the canal. He had just hooked a small fish with his ultra light rig when a bass took his catch and plowed for deeper waters. [ Read Full Post ]
I was walking back to my office with my friend Ky today. We were both carrying guns—in broad daylight—down the main street of our town (God bless rural Montana), on our way to a field day for kids sponsored by our local National Wild Turkey Federation and Ducks Unlimited chapters.
Maybe it was the moxie of our plain-day display of firearms. Maybe it was the prospect of spending the next four hours alternately terrified and thrilled as we introduced youngsters to guns.
But Ky turned to me and said, “When was the last time you were in a fistfight?” [ Read Full Post ]
Outdoor Life correspondent Gayne Young looks to the past and the present to find the outdoor personalities that prove just how wimpy the rest of us really are.
Among my many accomplishments at age 16 were getting a driver’s license, having a part time lifeguarding job at the city pool, and making out with Jenny Evans on her living room couch while her parents were obliviously unaware in the next room. How do these experiences compare to those of 16-year-old Australian teenager Jessica Watson? Well…they don’t. Because compared to her, I’m a wimp.
If things continue as well as they have, in the next week or two Watson will officially become the youngest person to sail around the world. Solo. [ Read Full Post ]
It was just a few short weeks after the Pittsburgh Steelers had won the Super Bowl that I interviewed the game's most valuable player Ben Roethlisberger for Outdoor Life's new magazine feature, "5 Minutes With..."
The back page series of articles features celebrities who hunt and fish and the questions are an attempt to delve a bit into reasons why the outdoors are an important part of their lives. I don't fancy myself a celebrity chaser, but I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge that I got a charge out of interviewing folks such as Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry--he called me back four times as I kept losing my cell-phone signal--who struck me as being more of a regular guy than a guitar hero. Or, most recently, Captain Sig Hansen from the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch who conversed with me as if we were sitting around deer camp drinking a cold beer. There have been lots of other pretty cool interviews: Fox News' Chris Wallace admitted to being a newcomer to hunting and I thought that refreshing; NASCAR's Bobby Labonte seemed genuine when he explained that it... [ Read Full Post ]
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