I got attacked by an OWL last night on my run

Owly sheeit man, its disturbing! Like

all these creature attacks!

I was recently at the turn around point

of a 20k run when I heard something that

sounded like a big bird thrashing through

the branches of the orchard. I turned around

to see what the clatter was and busting

through the trees was this big friggen

rotty. Well, I stood my ground there on

the hwy hollering "go home" to the monster

when I trips. This gave the fleabag courage

and he came for me nipping at my knees;

when what to my panicking eye should appear?

But the NAPA auto parts girl in her jeep with

it's top down cutting

between the rotty and his lunch.

Talk about a sight for sore knees you

better believe it.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

I have also seen a duck getting raped. . .

You mean as opposed to sex between consenting adult ducks?

I'm not sure there is any such thing as rape in the animal kingdom.

There's been no mention of bald guys getting attacked. I think the OWL attack reflex is stimulated by a rodent type of head shape or hair style. I suspect that if someone studied this carefully, the victims would have common characteristics.

When I was in high school there was one guy on our team who the dogs would always go after, no matter how large our group. He eventually got so tired of getting bitten that he stopped doing long runs with us and instead logged his mileage around the track. It just seems that certain people have a propensity for animal attacks. Perhaps it's bad karma.

no man, ducks gang rape females. the one time i saw it, three ducks were wailing away on this female duck while her mate was off a ways away really agitated. he'd try to chase the rapists away, but theyd chase him down and kick his ass, then go back to raping the female who, by this time, had passed away. They raped her to death. I am totally serious too... it happened on the lawn of a church by my house, seriously. so yes, rapes do occur in the animal kingdom... especially among ducks who generally have partners throughout a lifetime.

boulder wrote:

There's been no mention of bald guys getting attacked. I think the OWL attack reflex is stimulated by a rodent type of head shape or hair style. I suspect that if someone studied this carefully, the victims would have common characteristics.

After seeing Shark week, and the shows DRILLING into your heads that great whites attack you because you look like a seal when you're on a surfboard, it seems that owls have as similar problem.

The real question here, is if an owl ever took off with somebody's toupee.

Alan Webb, care to comment?

Come on Knowbody. Do you really think

that Humans are any less animal then

the Ducks? Whats not to believe? Man The

animal rapes/Duck The animal rapes. Whats

good for the goose is good for the gander;

only thing not believable in your ludicrous

syllogism may be man raping ducks. Well,

at least in most peoples animal attack

stories .. .. .. .. cross gender ducking is

not acceptable.

There was nothing consensual about it. For lack of a better phrase, it was a gang bang. Actually, I witnessed the same duck being assaulted just about every time I ran at that location. I knew it was the same duck because se was missing a lot of feathers.

Along the lines of bird attacks, I was doing an out and back run on the C&0 Canal in washington DC this summer and was attacked by a duck near Fletcher's Cove. I thought it would give me the old quack and hiss thing as I ran by, but instead, the wank went after me and nipped my back as I went by. I couldn't believe it, and every time I tell the story, I feel ridiculous. A DUCK!

derhdffd wrote:

your comment about ducks is funny but you should know, those bastards are vicious among one another. a group of male ducks are known to gang rape females until they die... that isn't a joke either. they also resort to cannibalism among one another. all this is true. look it up.

This is true. A university teammate and I who did a lot of extra long runs together saw duck gang rapes several times at a pond up in the hills.

What was the female duck wearing at the time of the incident?

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

There was nothing consensual about it. . .

The idea of a duck giving consent was actually meant to be kind of a joke.

"No, Donald," Daisy said firmly. "I'm just not ready for . . . that."

And I really wasn't saying forcible mating doesn't occur in the animal kingdom. What I was saying was

that animals probably don't consider it morally wrong, a crime. The notion of rape, with its horrible connotations, is a human one. Not to put words in their beaks, but ducks probably just figure they're doing what comes naturally -- i.e., passing on their genes.

Wow, never thought I'd find myself defending a gang of sexually hyperaggressive ducks on the Internet. Time to get a life.

of all things... wrote:

has this ever happened to anyone else? does anyone know how to prevent it? like wearing brighter clothes or something?

This bastard came after and attacked me one time. I brought my camera and gun the next time. I snappped this photo then shot the f*cker.

I've been attacked by an owl and like others I was running alone in some wooded trails at dusk (~8:30pm in the summer).

But unlike the other attacks mentioned, the owl initially came at me from the front and I have a shaved head...

As I headed down the trail with my eyes focused on trying to make out the uneven footing I looked up and could see something coming at me in the air. It was too dark to make out what it was but I suddenly realized it was coming right at my face so I dropped to the ground to avoid it.

I turned around to see it land in a tree and could tell from its eyes it was an owl. I stood up, brushed off my scraped knees and bloody palms, and started running again. I turned around after a few seconds to look back just in case, and the damn thing was in flight right behind my head. With its wings spread it looked enormous.

I threw a few wild haymakers behind me that met nothing but air and dropped to the ground again. I watched the owl land again so I yelled a few obscenities and took off down the trail like a bat out of hell. I ended up cutting the run a bit short that day. And both sets of palms and knees were bloody.

I've had other experiences with a rabid raccoon, bears (on two occasions), an errant tree branch at night, and a face first dive into the street, but nothing left me more traumatized than that damn owl. And it's the only one of those experiences where I cut my run short.

My running partner keeps me safe!

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amen.

i once had a raccoon run right in front of me... like literally 2 inches from me. I screamed out in terror and other runners, who were behind me, got a good laugh out of that. one other time, i was running and rounded a sharp corner and came across three deer... two does and a buck. i got within feet of them. the buck kicked up so much dust from the rock and took off like a bat out of hell. he had full antlers at the time too so it was freaky. another time, when i was real young, my friend and i ran up on a bald eagle. it must have been hurt because it went running from us but didn't fly away. since we were only middle schoolers at the time, we thought itd be fun to harrass him so we started throwing sticks and pebbles at it. man, when that sucker extended its wing and looked like the biggest, most menacing thing i've ever seen. it was sweet. another time i got chased by a beaver. another time a opossum came after me... that might have been the scariest experience. it bared its teeth and came at me at a full sprint. then, the countless dogs ive been chased by. i got chased by a great dane once and the only way i got away was to run into oncoming traffic in order to allude him. man, animals suck.

I thought that this thread was about Harry Potter and Ordinary Wizarding Levels.

force recon wrote:

when i ride my bike out in the country during the summer i often get attacked by red wing black birds. several times they have grabbed my helmet and once one actually took a chunk out of it. i've had to swing at them with my air pump several times.

Redwing blackbirds are very territorial during nesting season. I fly fish and have often had them attack me when walking through a corn field to get river access.

I have never heard of being attacked by an owl. I have been hit by what I think was a bat one time.

I was working at Wal-Mart one summer and a bat got in the store. It was swooping around, narrowly missing customers by an inch. My manager told me to, "Catch that bird." I looked at her and said, "First off, birds don't have ears. That is a bat. Secondly, hell no. Call an exterminator or do it yourself." It was goood times.