Beaver Shot! (No, not what you're probably thinking)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is a golf story.

I was playing a course in Ontario today. The course wasn’t crowded, so it was just me out there. I teed off on the 10th hole. My ball went nicely, far down the fairway, and bounced over a little ridge in the fairway. No problem; I’ll see it when I get past the ridge.

And I did, but it was being guarded by a beaver! The beaver was looking at my ball, then when I came in sight, at me. The beaver wasn’t moving.

I backed up a bit. The beaver shuffled around. I backed up a little more. The beaver finally started moving, and ambled off across the fairway.

I could step forward and hit my ball. But then it occurred to me–what if my tee shot had hit the beaver? Poor thing! But it also occurred to me that I have a great story about a beaver shot. :wink:

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I ddin’t think it’d involve golf, but I figured that the story was about the animal. (And yes, normally I DO have a dirty mind) :smiley:

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I had to make up some elective credits in college so I signed up for a golf class (cheap and worth 3 credits to make up for a couple I lost in transfer). Never swung a club before that.

We met on a three-par in South Pasadena, and I actually got my ball *stuck in a tree *on the second time out on the actual course! Wedged tight right in a branch. I wouldn’t have believed it if you told me it could happen.

I did not play thru.

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Hah, I can imagine the beaver going “WTF?! Who threw that?” and waiting for you to show up, finally deciding he didn’t want to mess with you. :smiley:

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Last year there were a few cases of rabies in beavers in Pennsylvania..

I was trying to find a news article rom a few years back in which a fisherman was attacked in the water. He went all Rambo on the animal, holding it underwater until it stopped struggling. It tested positive for rabies also.

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Don’t worry, you weren’t in any danger. The beaver was only interested in your woods.

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Thank Og! I was afraid you’d unloaded a clip into Jerry Mathers.

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A few of the most notable animals I have seen golfing:

Alligators, Turkeys, deer, Fox, copperheads, cottonmouths, bobcats, eagles, snapping turtles, muskrats.

I have seen a beaver, at a pre-bachelor party.