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Kenyan, 73, kills leopard with bare hands
Grandfather turns tables on attacking cat by grabbing tongue
Updated: 12:55 p.m. ET June 22, 2005
NAIROBI - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday.
Peasant farmer Daniel MMburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him.
MMburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopards mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animals tongue, leaving it in its death-throes.
It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping, he told the daily Standard newspaper of how the leopard came at him and knocked him over.
The leopard sank its teeth into the farmers wrist and mauled him with its claws. A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide-open mouth. I obeyed, MMburugu said.
As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete.
MMburugu was toasted as a hero in his village Kihato after the incident earlier this month. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities.
This guy is very lucky to be alive, Kenya Wildlife Service official Connie Maina told Reuters, confirming details of the incident.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8317484/?GT1=6657
Holy ****. This is ridiculously cool, how insane is this guy?!
Grandfather turns tables on attacking cat by grabbing tongue
Updated: 12:55 p.m. ET June 22, 2005
NAIROBI - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday.
Peasant farmer Daniel MMburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him.
MMburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopards mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animals tongue, leaving it in its death-throes.
It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping, he told the daily Standard newspaper of how the leopard came at him and knocked him over.
The leopard sank its teeth into the farmers wrist and mauled him with its claws. A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide-open mouth. I obeyed, MMburugu said.
As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete.
MMburugu was toasted as a hero in his village Kihato after the incident earlier this month. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities.
This guy is very lucky to be alive, Kenya Wildlife Service official Connie Maina told Reuters, confirming details of the incident.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8317484/?GT1=6657
Holy ****. This is ridiculously cool, how insane is this guy?!
that's good.
