Friday Funnies

[webenda]

BTW, if I feel threatened, and getting faced-down by one, can I punch one in the face if he comes at me to butt?

Are you asking me if it is ok to break your hand punching a ram between the eyes? Sure, go ahead. You won't hurt the ram. He will probably enjoy winning another battle.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

BTW, if I feel threatened, and getting faced-down by one, can I punch one in the face if he comes at me to butt?

Are you asking me if it is ok to break your hand punching a ram between the eyes? Sure, go ahead.

Well, then, how 'bout my trusty crowbar (it's actually more of a flat crate-opening type tool) I keep in my trusty defense-bag?

[chuck]

The only time I got run down was when a little a*hole was totally silent running up behind me. I wound up doing a somersault with the bike still between my legs. I tore up the skin over my right knee (still have the scar). Dog ran back home after I went down. I called the cops and animal control tried to get him off the porch but he wouldn't take the bait. I don't know if the owner was cited or not.

Re the pigs. About 10 years ago a hog carrier overturned on I-94 just west of Ann Arbor on the way to a slaughterhouse in Detroit. The pigs averaged 500 lbs. The state troopers dispatched to the accident scene spent about an hour chasing the pigs down.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

and then what did they do once they "had" one at-hand?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

and then what did they do once they "had" one at-hand?

Bacon!

[chuck]

They just rounded them up in the median until another pig carrier made it to the scene. Kind of a "crowd control" exercise. They closed down the freeway in both directions until all the hogs were contained. I think they used the patrol cars as a make shift corral. These weren't wild boars, just domesticated hogs.

[rex desilets]

BTW, if I feel threatened, and getting faced-down by one, can I punch one in the face if he comes at me to butt?

Are you asking me if it is ok to break your hand punching a ram between the eyes? Sure, go ahead. You won't hurt the ram. He will probably enjoy winning another battle.

Like many horned animals, their skulls are built for being battered. Double-ought buck would be better, but I suppose many don't make their rounds so armed.

[webenda]

BTW, if I feel threatened, and getting faced-down by one, can I punch one in the face if he comes at me to butt?

Are you asking me if it is ok to break your hand punching a ram between the eyes? Sure, go ahead.

Well, then, how 'bout my trusty crowbar (it's actually more of a flat crate-opening type tool) I keep in my trusty defense-bag?

You are going to have a hard time getting your tool out of the bag while being butted. I think you should do like you did to the dog, dog bites you, you bite it back. Ram butts you... use your head, butt it back.

[robert.]

When i was a kid. My friend and i would put on a helmet and shoulder pads. We would then go head to head with his pet goats. It was a blast. I can't imagine what it would be like to do that with a full grown ram. He also had some Jacobs that had four horns. We stayed away from butting them.
one day his father was on a ladder. Painting a second story window. One of the goats ran up the ladder after him.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Life is complicated.

[Mitch]

Note how that little bugger has his rear legs hunkered and he's gonna put everything he's got into that headbutt. Ya ever watch that show America's Wild? Those big mountain sheep rams will square off about 15 feet apart, then they each turn their heads a little bit like they're lookin' at their opponent out of the corner of their eyes, then they charge each at full speed. This usually goes on in the rut, and they may crack heads 3 to 5 times, or until the one with the severe headache decides he's lost and leaves the area. The winner is the dominant male and he wins the harem.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One of the goats ran up the ladder after him.

Fire up the grill............

[E7]

when I was 7 years old, I was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Huntington County, PA.

Dan Weinhold

Dan, Was that the time you died?

[sleepmac]

when I was 7 years old, I was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Huntington County, PA.

Dan Weinhold

Dan, Was that the time you died?

LOL...No...In my 40's I slipped into the rushing snow melt fed waters in Mt. Rainier Nat. Park. I remember being under the water, knowing I could not rise to the surface.I don't know how long I was unconscious. Next thing I remember was being dragged up the steep bank, feeling very wet and cold. I had been rescued by 2 brave souls.

Dan Weinhold

[E7]

when I was 7 years old, I was bitten by a Copperhead snake in Huntington County, PA.

Dan Weinhold

Dan, Was that the time you died?

LOL...No...In my 40's I slipped into the rushing snow melt fed waters in Mt. Rainier Nat. Park. I remember being under the water, knowing I could not rise to the surface.I don't know how long I was unconscious. Next thing I remember was being dragged up the steep bank, feeling very wet and cold. I had been rescued by 2 brave souls.

Dan Weinhold

One or two more of those and we're going to declare you a disaster area!