I love an even fight

[Wezil]

MOSCOW - A wounded fox shot its would-be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter’s gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said on Thursday.

The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a leg wound, while the fox made its escape, media said, citing prosecutors from the Grodno region.

“The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw,” one prosecutor was quoted as saying.

Fox-hunting is popular in the picturesque farming region of northwestern Belarus which borders Poland.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2011/01/13/16875651.html

Friends claim he will try his luck with a house cat next year.

[Docfeelgood]

[Wezil]

I think it's awesome. Wound a wild animal then move in to finish it off hand-to-hand. What could possibly go wrong?

[Provost Harrison]

In Soviet Russia, foxes shoot you!

I think it's awesome. Wound a wild animal then move in to finish it off hand-to-hand. What could possibly go wrong?

That's what Putin would've done. He would've just snapped the fox's neck without any of this debacle though.

[Aeson]

How do they know it was an accident? "Crafty as a fox" isn't a saying for no reason is it? (Then again, so is calling an attractive woman "foxy"... which makes you wonder what the hunter had in mind while "scuffled" with the animal.)

[Guynemer]

[rah]

My question is, who reported the incident? It doesn't say in the article.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

the fox

[rah]

And how unbiased might that be.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

as nature is well known to be in balance, the fox as part of if, will for sure give a fair and balanced report on the incident

[rah]

Nice.

[SlowwHand]

I think it's excellent.

[MOBIUS]

I can't believe no one has yet said that the hunter was out foxed...