WTF?
A hiker from Saxons River, Vermont survived 13 hours stuck in quicksand in Southeastern Utah last Wednesday. Robbie Tesar, a 25-year-old student enrolled in a 25-day survival training course, was sucked in when he tried to traverse a “sandy area” on the bank of the Dirty Devil River. That area… Read the rest
Swiss nude hiking made the news again last week after Switzerland’s top court rejected the appeal of a man fined for trekking in the buff in the canton of Appenzell.
To recap, this story was first reported in early 2009 when a flux of naked Germans trotted into Appenzell and… Read the rest
When officials received a call at 12:35pm on Friday from a climber requiring assistance on First Flatiron in Boulder, Colorado, saying his friend was “not acting right,” they likely didn’t expect the friend to be half-naked and likely high on mushrooms.
Emergency crews were able to retrieve and treat the… Read the rest
Authorities in southern Utah are on the hunt for this man. The unnamed hermit, notorious for camping in the summer and squatting in vacation cabins in the winter, has eluded the law years now. And now, after several reports of random yet harmless violence, cabin owners and law officials alike… Read the rest
Alligator wresting has arrived in Gresham, Oregon and Richard Ritchey is the undisputed champion beating out Multnomah County Animal Services, who had set a baited trap Friday to no avail. Sunday morning Ritchey, who also goes by “The Reptile Man”, swam into the storm drainage pond that the five-foot gator… Read the rest
A Chinese City Games kayak race turned bloody on Sunday after a paddle-waving brawl broke out between two teams, sending one athlete to the hospital.
It all started when the Guangzhou team intentionally rammed their kayak into that of the Nanchang team, the hosts of the Games, who then retaliated—naturally—by… Read the rest
Ken Champion, a resident of Wilson, New York, an upstate town on Lake Ontario, found an alligator in a creek near his house. Champion called the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) immediately when he spotted the 30-inch long reptile. DEC officers then took the alligator to a local veterinarian where… Read the rest
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but it had to be blogged. Police in Zanesville, Ohio are on the lookout for dozens of exotic animals—including bears, tigers, cheetahs, lions and wolves—after a mysterious escape from the Muskingum County Animal Farm.
Actually, the escape might not be so mysterious.… Read the rest
When Rich Moyer of Oliver, Pennsylvania let his dog out into the yard before sunrise last week, he certainly had no idea what would follow the dog back inside. “[The dog] came in, right through the house,” Moyer said. “Right on her tail was the bear.” Authorities speculate that the… Read the rest
An Austrian climber was climbing the El Capitan cliff at Yosemite National Park when he fell and his climbing rope sliced his thumb clean off, “sending it flying into thin air,” according to KTLA.
But he wasn’t thumbless for long, because his climbing partner quickly spotted the thumb on a… Read the rest
At 3:30am on August 28th, a Pleasanton family’s 2002 Toyota Prius was vandalized and stolen from their Lake Tahoe vacation home driveway. By a bear.
The Oakland Tribune… Read the rest reports that after the bear “wedged” itself inside the vehicle, it, realizing it couldn’t get out, panicked. The bear destroyed the inside
When 22-year-old Brooke Collins of Juneau, Alaska saw a black bear carrying her dauchsand, Fudge, around “like a salmon,” she did what most people would not do.
She punched the bear in the face.
“It was all so fast. All I could think about was my dog was going to… Read the rest
According to a report by Denver Westword, two young boys this month have been bitten on the butt by a coyote–or two–in the city of Broomfield, CO.
On July 18th, a coyote in the area knocked over a two-year-old boy who was walking with his dad, and bit him in… Read the rest
We’ve posted several videos of animals doing funny things–but we seriously never expected to see a snail who likes to move it, move it.… Read the rest
[Via: Huffington Post]
Dad, Kevin, takes 9-year-old son, Hunter, on a fishing trip by kayak off the coast of Gavelston, Texas. Dad accidentally hooks seven-foot-long black tip shark and spends about an hour attempting to keep the shark hooked and positioned just right so that son Hunter can get a video of the… Read the rest
