Wild creatures often are...

...even if caged, fed and treated with "kindness."

Gail at Scribal Terror had this post up earlier today about the folly of treating a wild critter as anything but: IN CASE YOU WERE PLANNING TO HAND FEED A MORAY EEL

I left a lengthy comment there about human stupidity.

Then this evening I came across this story:

Tiger Bites Off Woman's Arm at Zoo in Montenegro

A Siberian tiger at a private zoo in Montenegro bit off an arm of a woman who tried to feed the animal.

Lovely.

Another Darwin Award entry

Man Attempts to Steal Copper, Electrocuted

(Or maybe the Lord simply emphasized the Commandment that says:
“Thou shall not steal.”)

(Found at Drew Curtis’ FARK )

Darwinism At Work

To paraphrase a quote from one of my favorite movies, Tremors, “Picked the wrong gol-darned tour group, didn‘t you!” Elderly Tourist Kills Mugger With Bare Hands

No word in the article as to which service the 70 year old gentleman retired from, but if he was in long enough to be considered “retired” by the AP, and if the group did, in fact book the tour together it’s likely that several others in the party were “retired” military…well, the three idiots who attempted to rob them were lucky. Just saying, it could have been three DOA instead of one.

(Also reminds me of the scene in Presidio where the “elderly Colonel played by Sean Connery is being harassed by the big good ‘ole boy and has to take care of business, “But I’m only going to use this one thumb…”)

Update: This version of the story , from Reuters, says the gent is a retired Marine. (There are no ex-Marines—except Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Murtha. But that’s another story.) It also mentions the robber (Which robber? “The dead one.”) pulled a .38 and that was what ticked off the tourists.

I love this final line: “After the attack, they put Segura's body on their bus and found a police officer in Limon to report the incident.” Heh. “Excuse me officer. We seem to have injured this POS when he tried to pull a gun on us.” I mean, the dude’s probably better off dead. Your street creds have got to suffer when a bunch of 70 year-olds take your gun away from you and shove it where the sun don’t shine. How are his two buddies gonna live it down.