Scary encounters with animals

[Fraxinus]

Never had any life threatening, but a few funny ones, the best of them (IMHO) was when I agreed to go out to Spain and fit my sisters kitchen.
My sister + new husband, her stepson and I arrived to their newly built villa to find that not only the internal doors had not arrived and been fitted but the electric had not been connected either.
So with a stiff upper lip we resorted to thumb tacked curtain doors and candles for lighting....until about 2am.
At which point we were awoken by my six foot something, barn door wide nephew-in-law screaming..................

"SCORPION"

As first on scene, (opposite room) I found on the wall what appeared to be a Devils Coachman type creature, not a scorpion. The flickering candlelight made it look bigger.
Having lived in Greece I knew what Scorpions looked like first hand.
After calming him down the three of us retired back to bed..........to be awoken by a screeching scraping sound.
He had dragged two fold out chairs and a sun lounger across the tiled floors to construct a bed off of the floor, how the sun lounger failed to fold, twixt the two, we don't know!
A memorable first night in their Spanish home.

Rob

[OakAshandThorn]

Never had any life threatening, but a few funny ones, the best of them (IMHO) was when I agreed to go out to Spain and fit my sisters kitchen.
My sister + new husband, her stepson and I arrived to their newly built villa to find that not only the internal doors had not arrived and been fitted but the electric had not been connected either.
So with a stiff upper lip we resorted to thumb tacked curtain doors and candles for lighting....until about 2am.
At which point we were awoken by my six foot something, barn door wide nephew-in-law screaming..................

"SCORPION"

As first on scene, (opposite room) I found on the wall what appeared to be a Devils Coachman type creature, not a scorpion. The flickering candlelight made it look bigger.
Having lived in Greece I knew what Scorpions looked like first hand.
After calming him down the three of us retired back to bed..........to be awoken by a screeching scraping sound.
He had dragged two fold out chairs and a sun lounger across the tiled floors to construct a bed off of the floor, how the sun lounger failed to fold, twixt the two, we don't know!
A memorable first night in their Spanish home.

Rob

Ye Gods....sounds like my uncle encountering very large sand crabs in my grandfather's house in southern Florida - scared the **** 'outta him.

[rawfish111]

on a separate note I have been challenged by a herd of cattle whilst out with the dog (they dont know hes safe round stock), not a pleasant experience and very dangerous, quite a few folks have been killed and seriously injured by cows with calves in the UK in recent years

Catlle can be bloody downright dangerous... C1991 I was workimg on a farm on leave and the boss had a bull who was basically given free range (two tonnes of Aberdeen angus is not easily persuaded) and the last attempt of getting him in the crush for his shots was to wait till he was pointed in the right direction then 'tap' him in the bollocks with the cattle stick... we got him in the crush but from the look in his eye I never went in that field again!

[Tommy]

(Disclaimer – I am really drunk on red wine – thank goodness for spell check)

My father in-law (decease) was a farmer all his life and he was gored by a bull.

DON'T F*^#^K WITH BULLS!




When you F*^@K with the bull you get the horn!

[BJ]

A heard of young cows galloping, (yes actually galloping) it was like a wild west stampede, up until then I thought cows were nice placid creatures. Isn't it amazing how you retain your school high jump techniques over a barb wire fence at moments like this ?. When I looked back at the fence I had trouble believing I had just cleared it without pause. I still have no idea what the cows were up to but I have developed a health respect for them.
Also ninja seagulls in Rhyll

[alvino78]

killer midges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[backlasher]

I live just south of Houston, Texas and I kayak fish. Since a kayak sits so low, I've been eyeball to eyeball with several alligators. We learn to watch for snakes (we have several poisonous ones), scorpions and angry cows. Alligator encounters are exciting but they don't seem to hurt anyone. It still makes me nervous when one about 5 yards away goes under the water.

[happybonzo]

Once on exercise on Woodham Common we were all terrified by loud snuffling and troughing around our bashas. Eventually one of the smallest was dicked to be go out and check...


- turned out to be an enraged hedgehog...

[Tommy]

I live just south of Houston, Texas and I kayak fish. Since a kayak sits so low, I've been eyeball to eyeball with several alligators. We learn to watch for snakes (we have several poisonous ones), scorpions and angry cows. Alligator encounters are exciting but they don't seem to hurt anyone. It still makes me nervous when one about 5 yards away goes under the water.

If one of those beasts rammed your kayak capsizing it, the beast could then bite you and do a death roll drowning you. And then swallow you whole.

Ya that would be real exciting!

[shepherd]

Catlle can be bloody downright dangerous... C1991 I was workimg on a farm on leave and the boss had a bull who was basically given free range (two tonnes of Aberdeen angus is not easily persuaded) and the last attempt of getting him in the crush for his shots was to wait till he was pointed in the right direction then 'tap' him in the bollocks with the cattle stick... we got him in the crush but from the look in his eye I never went in that field again!

another man killed by cattle today in the paper, walking his dog... calving cows can be very dangouras.. especially when dogs ar around to get them nervous.