By Chad Love

Does technology and the sense of confidence it tends to instill actually cause more trouble than it's worth? Maybe, according to this story in the New York Times:

Cathy Hayes was cracking jokes as she recorded a close encounter with a buffalo on her camera in a recent visit to Yellowstone National Park. “Watch Donald get gored,” she said as her companion hustled toward a grazing one-ton beast for a closer shot with his own camera. Seconds later, as if on cue, the buffalo lowered its head, pawed the ground and charged, injuring, as it turns out, Ms. Hayes. “We were about 30, 35 feet, and I zoomed in on him, but that wasn’t far enough, because they are fast,” she recounted later in a YouTube video displaying her bruised and cut legs. [ Read Full Post ]

By Chad Love

An Illinois coonhound gets rescued after being trapped in a cave for three days.
 
From this amazing story in the Chicago Tribune:
Dogs are renowned for loyalty to their owners, but sometimes it works the other way, too. Just ask Jared Gamboe, who stood vigil outside of a cave that he believed his dog was trapped inside for three days.

An avid raccoon hunter, Gamboe went out to the wooded area near Indian Lake Road in Delhi last Sunday night to hunt with two of his buddies and four dogs altogether. When the hunters unleashed their dogs, two ran off in one direction and two ran off in another. Gamboe's 2-year-old Treeing Walker coonhound, Threat, was one of the dogs that boldly ran off in pursuit of raccoons. "Within 15 minutes, I knew something was wrong, because I lost the signal from Threat's GPS collar, and Paul (Young) lost contact with his dog, Cassie, at the same time," Gamboe said. [ Read Full Post ]

By Joe Cermele

Bear Grylls already made our news blog once this week for a camera-related injury. We're not Bear-crazy here or anything, but I just found a video clip from the new season of "Man Vs. Wild" I had to share.

It seems old Bear is trapped in a tropical location and hungry for shark steaks. So he decides to use urine--his favorite and most useful bodily fluid--to attract a seven-footer to the shallows where he plans to...get this...grab it by the tail and fling it onto the beach. I find humor in this on many levels, but on a personal one, I have a buddy who always announces that he's "spicing up the trolling spread" when relieving himself offshore. Maybe there's something to that after all. Click here or on the photo to check out the video. Have a good weekend, and if you're beach-bound, don't pee in the water. - JC

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By Chad Love

A giant 550-pound blue marlin - perhaps angry about something they wrote - attacked the press boat at the 51st Annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament this week.

From this story on KHON2 TV:
Kailua-Kona is once again hosting one the top fishing tournaments in the world with some of the best anglers in the sport. But the biggest fishing tale so far happened on the press boat when a 550 lb. marlin went berserk and attacked. The 51st annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament is shaping up to be one of the most memorable in years with several monster marlins caught including one by the press boat. "I've seen some pretty wacky stuff but this still blew my mind," said photographer Jon Schwartz who was aboard the Chiripa when one of its lines snagged a 550 lb. marlin. "And this giant marlin starts going berserk and it was close the boat."Schwartz grabbed his camera and started shooting.

"And next thing you know it turns and it comes right at us, and starts *greyhounding* right at us and I'm trying to keep the... [ Read Full Post ]

By Chad Love

First a Canadian beaver is shot after killing a large dog. Now a Georgia man is recovering from wounds he received after a beaver attacked him on a local river.
 
From this story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
There are some hazards that go along with fishing -- getting stuck by a hook, finned by a fish, sunburn. Getting attacked by an angry beaver  is generally not considered a high risk. That's what happened, though, to an Atlanta man, who is recovering  from wounds suffered when he was attacked by a beaver last week while fishing near Lake Lanier. Russ McTindal was fishing on the Chattahoochee River just below Buford Dam on Thursday when he was bitten on his leg and arm by the large beaver. [ Read Full Post ]

By Chad Love

A fifty-pound jellyfish manages to sting 150 people - while dead.

From this story on AOL News:
Call it the jellyfish version of "Jaws." As many as 150 people were stung by a 40- to 50-pound jellyfish at a state park in southern New Hampshire this week. And the jellyfish, identified as a lion's mane jellyfish, was not even alive. Officials said the incident at Wallis Sands State Beach in Rye, started when a lifeguard spotted the jellyfish about 100 yards from shore and dragged it in with a pitchfork. The jellyfish broke up en route. [ Read Full Post ]