Fox shoots hunter with gun

[Ruby the Liberal]

A man in northern Belarus was recently outfoxed...by a fox.

According to Reuters, the hunter approached the fox after wounding it, intent on killing it with the butt of his rifle.

However, the two ended up getting into a tussle, and the fox managed to trigger the rifle, shooting the hunter in the leg.

A prosecutor from the Grodno region said, "The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw."

The hunter is currently in the hospital with a leg wound, and the fox just happened to escape.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/fox-shoots-hunter_n_809921.html

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[Crankie Avalon]

1. Sounds like something that would happen in a Monty Python sketch. nt

[JackintheGreen]

3. Good people everywhere forgive me for knowing this

but it did happen on an episode of According to Jim (the Jim Belushi/Courtney Thorne-Smith vehicle), except it was a turkey and a crossbow.

[LiberalEsto]

2. Yay for the fox!

Better luck with the aim next time.

[RC]

4. If more animals had opposable thumbs maybe hunting would be more fair.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Not a bad idea

Maybe PETA should concentrate on genetically modifying various animals so they can shoot back.

[Deep13]

6. The fox told police, "It was either him or me." nt

[Shandris]

7. I can see a new, successful line of video games...

...based on the old Deer Hunter series in the pipeline. :)

"FOX HUNTER! When Nature Strikes Back!"

I'm telling you, if they made the fox cute enough I'd play that, too.