An Anoka woman faced a bizarre situation when she went swimming in a Duluth lake this week and an otter attacked. hide
Leah Prudhomme's legs after she was attacked and bitten by an otter while training in Island Lake near Duluth.
Fangs pierced Leah Prudhomme's legs as she swam across the deep, dark rum-colored northern Minnesota lake. It could be anything, she thought -- muskrats, beavers, maybe a muskie. But it didn't let up.
In the middle of Island Lake near Duluth, the triathlete struggled as the animal sunk its needle-sharp teeth into her legs, feet and back, leaving 25 bite marks, some 2 inches deep.
"It just kept coming after me," said Prudhomme, 33, of Anoka. "You never knew where it was going to bite next."
...The rare lake attack baffled conservation experts and doctors, who could only surmise that the atypically aggressive otter had rabies or was a mother protecting young pups.
And somewhere, The Asylum has their next Mockbuster idea!
Kevin M Sporkbender
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Subject: Re: "Triathlete Hospitalized After ______ Attack" Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:22 am
I guess she crossed the wrong otter?
WD40 Knight of the Bleach
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Subject: Re: "Triathlete Hospitalized After ______ Attack" Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:24 am
Enter the otter in her place.
If nothing else, we'll get awesome music, right?
This is how real life works, isn't it?
Kevin M Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-09-10 Age : 38 Location : The greatest city on Earth.
Subject: Re: "Triathlete Hospitalized After ______ Attack" Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:07 am
More or less.
Drabbler Sporkbender
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Subject: Re: "Triathlete Hospitalized After ______ Attack" Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:44 am
But Dean Wilson's a California otter. Minnesota otters get a completely different kind of music, don'cha know?
EileenK98 Recovering Fanbrat
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Subject: Re: "Triathlete Hospitalized After ______ Attack" Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:02 am