Thread: What are some bad animal encounters you have had?

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Here are just a few encounters I have had w/ the animal kingdom lol

Was way up in the mountains alone in WA state fly fishing on a lake. I turn around and to my suprise a bobcat is sitting behind me about 20 ft on a stump, just sitting there staring at me. He watched me for about 5 mins then ran off.

I was teaching another Marine at dusk how to surf at Del Mar beach on Camp Pendleton. It was red tide so all the crap from the bottom of the ocean was coming up to the surface. I had my buddy I was teaching facing the beach so I could tell him to start paddling when a good set of waves came in. I am facing the ocean watching and waiting. Then this tail fin comes up and then the dorsal fin, Yup its a shark! the dorsal fin was about two feet high out of the water. The shark then dove down out of sight. I am thinking just great! I tell my buddy slowly start paddeling in and dont panic but we have a big shark around us. We start paddeling in and luckily a huge set of waves come in taking us to shore.


Oregon coast right off the devils punch bowl I was out surfing sitting on my board waiting for a good set to roll in when a fish comes up and bites my foot and wont let go lol! After a good fight he let go of my foot and left me w/ 5 teeth scars on it.


Was playing paintball at night up in the Oregon mountains (snow peak) there was only four of us so we were fighting each other. 2 of us got hit and went back to the truck and waited. Josh one of the ones who didnt get hit got bored chasing Todd so he gave up and went to the truck. We are sitting the back of the truck bsing when we hear a noise in the bushes infront of the truck. We think its our buddy Todd so we tell him come out man were done playing lets drink some beer. Todd comes out but.... from behind the truck... So we are all puzzled on what is making that noise in the bushes infront of us. We deciede ok lets fire into it w/ our paintball guns and lets see what happens. We all start firing into the bushes infront of us.

Then this Giant scream comes out of the bushes and a couger comes running out passes by the truck and runs down the mountain.

Was walking a trail at Meadowdale Park in Lynnwood WA, saw some squirells making a comotion around us one jumps out of the tree hits the ground runs right up to me bites me in the shin and runs off lol I haver never heard of anybody getting attacked by a squirrel in my life lol

Camp Lejeune, NC we are doing force on fore training. My squad has set up a ambush on an avenue of approach. I was in the prone position waiting when a copperhead snake decieded to come lay next to me lol Whispered over to a buddy about my situation. He took the butt of his M-16 and put it on the snakes head allowing me to escape.

Brazil I was training the Brazilian Army, after a long day of field OP's I decieded to take a nap a few friends thought it would be hillarious to put a Goliath Spider(largest spider in the world) on my chest. I woke up to them calling my name I look down on my chest and here is this spider the size of a dungeoness crab just sitting on my chest starring at me. I swat it off freaked out and ticked off lol The Brazilian soldiers grabbed up the spider and cooked it. The spider didnt taste to bad.

Was hiking w/ my dogs and we came to a clearing in the forrest. In the clearing was a solo coyote rolling around and being playful. I put my dogs on thier leashes so they wouldnt go try and play w/ it. We continued walking towards it, my dogs were barking up a storm but it wasnt scaring the coyote. As we got closer the coyote sat up and a pack of coyotes come running out of the trees towards us. I was carrying my 1911 .45 (I have my concealed weapons permit btw). I pulled out my gun shot it in the air and the coyotes ran off.

Green Peter Resevoir, Oregon high up in the mountains I was home on leave and my buddies wanted to toss a party camping trip. After numerous beers and shots I was very very drunk. It was night now and was our turn to go get firewood. Four of us went into the forrest to fetch some more wood while the rest stayed at camp and partied. Since I was the really drunk guy it was my job to carry the lantern for everybody while they got wood. This lantern was a really old kersone lantern. As I stumbled following them this big ruckus came out of the bushes and stands up this black bear growling and making a bunch of noise. Few of my buds ran back to camp while I just stood there w/ my buddy tyler. I remember Tyler saying what do we do? and with my drunk mind I decieded to throw the lantern at the bear. The lantern hits the bear, breaks catching the bear on fire. The bear runs off setting the forrest on fire. I was amazed on what just happened. Some of the guys came running back to us with guns. We put out the fire in the forrest lol I became legendary after that incident and it is talked about every time we go camping. Somewhere out there in the Cascades there is a bear missing fur from me lol.

Easy. Christmas Day, 1971, in a construction camp in the Northern Territory of Australia. Day off, went to the beach with the "blokes", got stung by a box jellyfish. My arm puffed up like a big sausage, and, a week later while sleeping, ALL THE SKIN of my upper body peeled of in corn flake sized pieces. Scary and gross.

When I was in middle school I was into snakes, but had to keep it a secret from my mom. So in my closet I had 4 aquariums I had acquired from people around the neighborhood. One day out in the woods I found a nest of these cool looking snakes with a brown and tan pattern and a pointed head. Well, I kept them and fed them mice I caught in traps out in the woods. I got rid of them after about a year. No bites or incidents from the snakes, I even would let them wrap around my arms when my friends wanted to see them. My now more educated self knows that what I actually had were a bunch of adolescent copperheads. I was a stupid stupid kid.

I saw a black bear once, but he just looked at us on our bikes and then walked away like nothing happened. Really wasn't to scared since it was so calm

Originally Posted by Wolfman

My arm puffed up like a big sausage, and, a week later while sleeping, ALL THE SKIN of my upper body peeled of in corn flake sized pieces.

Sweet Jesus........

(And Biggie, you should be called "Lucky"... Copperheads dude? Whoa..)

When I bought fish because I couldn't have bearded dragon.

When I was 10 I went to sleep away camp in the Adirondacks, first time away from home. First night I climbed into my sleeping bag, there was a friggin snake in there! Needless to say I'd rather shoot them than look at them! Hate em!

I have no stories to tell. Dang! I am lame or what?... well there was this one time we caught a black 6ft snake in the house after being with out electic for 24 to 30 hours. Scared the crap out of my Daddy, because he pulled open a drawn to get a dish rag while Spookyone was leaning over it to get a cup for a drink and slame the drawn shut. It took my Dad and my Uncle 4 hours to get that snake out of the kitchen because it wanted to go back the way it came from and Dad and my Uncle wouldnt let it go.

Originally Posted by NOWHINING

I have no stories to tell. Dang! I am lame or what?... well there was this one time we caught a black 6ft snake in the house after being with out electic for 24 to 30 hours. Scared the crap out of my Daddy, because he pulled open a drawn to get a dish rag while Spookyone was leaning over it to get a cup for a drink and slame the drawn shut. It took my Dad and my Uncle 4 hours to get that snake out of the kitchen because it wanted to go back the way it came from and Dad and my Uncle wouldnt let it go.

If I had a snake in the house, I'd have to move!

Not sure if this counts or not, but - We have very big raccoons in our neighborhood. And not only are they big, they travel in packs of 5 and 6 usually. Well, we came home from grocery shopping one evening and there were quite a few in our kitchen. Like they knew we had gone to the store and were waiting to see what we bought. They had come in through the dog door. We had to chase them back out with a broom, they didn't want to leave.

There was another time they came in while we were all sleeping. They ransacked our kitchen. Oh, what a mess. Flour, sugar, chocolate chips, coconut shreds, sprinkles, all our baking stuff was all over the floor.

We moved the dog door - into my bedroom. Might not sound like a good idea, but so far ----- so good.

Water moccasin swimming right towards me when I was out fishing with my dad (I was around 8 years old). Those things are creeeeeepy when they swim, and they are wicked mean and poisonous. My dad told me to climb up a tree and he got a large tree branch and started slapping at the water trying to scare it off. I remember thinking that I didn't even know how to drive a car and hoping my dad didn't get bitten since we were hours away from civilization.

I have no problem with pet snakes, but snakes in the wild?