Dave2112
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Hidey Ho, everyone. I've decided to start a weekly article of strange Forteana, strange but all 100% true. In this inaugural installment, the topic will be the bizarre things that happen when Animals Strike Back....
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Last May, shrimps shut down a South Korean nuclear power plant 120 miles south-east of Seoul when they stormed the cooling water intakes.
{APF} May 3, 2001
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Also in May, a group of ants got their revenge on a gardener in Darmstadt, Germany when he tried to eradicate them with a home-made flame-thrower. They scurried under a cypress bush containing a lot of natural oil and the bush exploded into a 10 ft. wall of flame. The ants escaped while the man suffered serious burns to his arms and legs. Fortean Times June 2002
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A little more than a week later, a steer shot a 35-year-old slaughterhouse worker, an employee at the Better Beef plant in Guelph, Ontario. He was trying to dispatch the animal when it nudged the gun into his stomach as it fired. The injury was not considered life-threatening. Toronto National Post May 11, 2001
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Ian White, working as a beater for a shooting party on the Molland Estate in North Devon in December, was knocked unconscious by a partridge whick struck him on the temple as he sat in the back of his pick-up truck. The 1.5 lb. bird was flying about 30mph. Mr. White was flown to hospital in Exeter, where he regained consciousnessm an hour later. "If it had been a bigger bird," he observed, "then I probably wouldn't be here today." The kamikaze partridge was killed on impact. London Times Dec 27, 2001
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A tiger wandered into a hut in the village of Gosaba in West Bengal where farmer Prasun Kalita was asleep with his wife and three children. In the morning they found it "sleeping like a baby." "It's a miracle we didn't end up as its dinner," said Mr. Kalita. "We can ony thank the goddess Durga that he slept through the night and did nothing to us." Animal experts tranquilized the animal and transported it back to the jungle.Ananova Feb 12, 2002
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See you next week with more weird shit.😀
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Last May, shrimps shut down a South Korean nuclear power plant 120 miles south-east of Seoul when they stormed the cooling water intakes.
{APF} May 3, 2001
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Also in May, a group of ants got their revenge on a gardener in Darmstadt, Germany when he tried to eradicate them with a home-made flame-thrower. They scurried under a cypress bush containing a lot of natural oil and the bush exploded into a 10 ft. wall of flame. The ants escaped while the man suffered serious burns to his arms and legs. Fortean Times June 2002
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A little more than a week later, a steer shot a 35-year-old slaughterhouse worker, an employee at the Better Beef plant in Guelph, Ontario. He was trying to dispatch the animal when it nudged the gun into his stomach as it fired. The injury was not considered life-threatening. Toronto National Post May 11, 2001
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Ian White, working as a beater for a shooting party on the Molland Estate in North Devon in December, was knocked unconscious by a partridge whick struck him on the temple as he sat in the back of his pick-up truck. The 1.5 lb. bird was flying about 30mph. Mr. White was flown to hospital in Exeter, where he regained consciousnessm an hour later. "If it had been a bigger bird," he observed, "then I probably wouldn't be here today." The kamikaze partridge was killed on impact. London Times Dec 27, 2001
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A tiger wandered into a hut in the village of Gosaba in West Bengal where farmer Prasun Kalita was asleep with his wife and three children. In the morning they found it "sleeping like a baby." "It's a miracle we didn't end up as its dinner," said Mr. Kalita. "We can ony thank the goddess Durga that he slept through the night and did nothing to us." Animal experts tranquilized the animal and transported it back to the jungle.Ananova Feb 12, 2002
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See you next week with more weird shit.😀
