Bruce Lung Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050622/80/flr9k.html Wednesday June 22, 02:09 PM NAIROBI (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said on Wednesday. Peasant farmer Daniel M'Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him. M'Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard's mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal's tongue, leaving it in its death-throes. "It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping," he told the daily Standard newspaper of how the leopard came at him and knocked him over. The leopard sank its teeth into the farmer's wrist and mauled him with its claws. "A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide open mouth. I obeyed," M'Mburugu said. As the leopard was dying, a neighbour heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete. M'Mburugu was toasted as a hero in his village Kihato after the incident earlier this month. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities. "This guy is very lucky to be alive," Kenya Wildlife Service official Connie Maina told Reuters, confirming details of the incident. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenge_everything Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 wow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 The amazing thing is that the farmer's natural instinct was so advanced he deliberately dropped the machete and did something that would have seemed in his ordinary mind much less likely to be effective - thrusting his hand into its maw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mloco Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 Maharaji's Kirpa innit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Lung Posted June 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 Well Maharaj's kirpa can be used to mean anything, and I'm not sure that it applies in this case. I doubt he has much education outside of what any Christian missionary school taught him, so he probably sees the whole world that kind of way (i.e. made in 7 days, Adam and Eve etc). But he obviously experienced a state of unusually heightened awareness at the moment when the beast attacked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmjeet Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 yup , quite a quick and good thinking . this is when ur brain really comes in need , in times of danger . :twisted: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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