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Scouts Stone Rabid Beaver to Death After Attack

CBS/Associated Press
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:01 CDT

Pine Plains, N.Y. - A rabid beaver that attacked a Boy Scout leader swimming in the Delaware River was killed after Scouts in the troop pelted it with rocks.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that 51-year-old Normand Brousseau, of Pine Plains, N.Y., was swimming in eastern Pennsylvania on Aug. 2 when a beaver swam through his legs and bit him in the chest.

"I thought it was a giant carp fish," he told the paper.

After initially throwing the animal from his body, it returned to continue the attack, biting Brousseau in the leg, buttocks, arm, hand and torso before he managed to grab it and hold its jaw closed.

Brousseau threw the beaver ashore while Scouts helped him out of the water. After being momentarily stunned, the beaver began attacking a pool noodle.

At that point, the Scouts stepped in to put down the animal.

"We started throwing rocks at it," Nick Hedges, 16, said. "We could see it was still dangerous."

A doctor confirmed the beaver had rabies a day after the attack.

Dutchess County health officials say a rabid beaver attack is unusual.

Reader Comments

Attacking a Pool Noodle ???

By: Rowan Cocoan

"After being momentarily stunned, the beaver began attacking a pool noodle."

Well, I first figured someone musta spilled some pasta on a billiards table. *Pool noodle." get it?

Then, methought, "Is that one of those plastic pool floating tube things?" I guess.

Musta been one of them thar fornicating beavers that the good book sez ye must stone to death.

R.C.

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:53 CDT

Pool noodle...

By: l_e_cox

...uh - ever heard of Google?

Anyway, the important thing is rabies.

We know what rabies does to animals. This beaver is an example.

Well, it does the same thing to humans. It usually takes time for the condition to develop (unless someone has created a fast-acting strain) but it is a perfect way to get a human to act really crazy, something like a wild dog, or werewolf. Hopefully we will not ever see this again, since we have a treatment that works, and the disease gives warning signs.

But I would not be the least surprised if TPTB were playing around with this disease for nefarious reasons. If we were to experience a human outbreak it could be seriously not fun, and people would have to decide to "put down" other people, like what those scouts had to do with that beaver. Definitely not fun.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:48 CDT

Re: Pool noodle...

By: gdpetti

Wonder if the manner of being 'put down' would involve the ancient stoning tools? Of course, it then encourages the mob doing so to act in a rabid way themselves, and that is something the local PTB might not wish unless they are in deep hiding. Don't want to turn the locals into zombies now would they? Rabid is as rabid does and what with all of our psychos set loose in society, it would seem that we have enough WMD as it is.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:19 CDT

Beavers don't need to have rabies

By: bighairy

To attack in the water, where they can be dangerous. They are territorial & very defensive of their young (I've been chased out of the trout stream a couple of times). They can easily kill a large dog in the water (so will racoons)-

Remember these tips as you hit the northwoods in advance of the coming disaster. Also, they're not bad eatin' really...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:25 CDT

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