Woman, 40, badly hurt in park after eight of the carnivorous creatures launch early-morning attack
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I thought this would be a cute story with a jokey headline…

    From the brief second I saw the pic of the woman before a paywall kicked in tho, they fucked her up.

    Like her face and arms too, did they knock her down or something?

    I feel like otters aren’t exactly quick on land and an average jogger could easily get away.

    Makes me think this is like most animal “attacks” and the result of a human mistaking reality for a Disney movie. The vast majority of the time the human starts it intentionally or be thinking wild animals are tame and pissing them off.

    • Nefara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Makes me think this is like most animal “attacks” and the result of a human mistaking reality for a Disney movie. The vast majority of the time the human starts it intentionally or be thinking wild animals are tame and pissing them off.

      The victim was a jogger in a park, the article was positing that it was territorial behavior based on protecting their young but they “came out of nowhere” as far as she was concerned.

      • Nefara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’m quoting the article since you said you weren’t able to read it. For the most part I agree most animals are happy to live and let live and most animal attacks are easily avoided.

        But, then I’ve also met Canada geese, so I’m reserving judgement, myself.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        When I was in the Navy we all got sat down one morning because a high ranking enlisted had his arm bit off on base by an alligator, so we were all warned to always be alert because even if you’re doing everything right, animals will still randomly attack.

        That afternoon we got another speech about the dangers of drinking, because by that time the command had found out guy was shit faced and blamed it on that

        A few days later we got a talk about respecting local wildlife, because apparently someone had recorded that guy drunk and screaming at an alligator that was just sitting there while hitting it in the head with a kayak paddle.

        So when I see:

        but they “came out of nowhere” as far as she was concerned.

        I give it as much benefit of doubt as Uncle Ned screaming “it’s coming right for us” in South Park.

        Idiots never admit blame, and always claim they did everything right.

        Unless you’re 25 miles into a marathon, you can outrun a handful of semiaquatic mammals. And if your face and arms are fucked up, it’s more likely you crouched down and extended your arms to the cuddly critters than 4 house cat sized animals drug you to the ground.

        It just don’t add up

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      before a paywall kicked in

      Oops, I didn’t realize there was a paywall (using tor browser w/ ublock origin there isn’t).

      I’ve edited the post body to include the whole article now.