# Boy Scout Leader Attacked by Rabid Beaver **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541 "2012-08-15T06:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/1 "2012-08-15T06:49:04Z")
I didn’t even know beavers could catch rabies. This guy was [bitten multiple times](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/normand-brousseau-boy-scout-beaver-attack-pennsylvania_n_1772239.html) while swimming in a pond. The comment section is a hoot but I know you guys can do better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/2 "2012-08-15T06:56:05Z")
Gah. Stupid edit window. There’s another article that’s even [funnier.](http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120813/NEWS01/308130009?nclick_check=1) Yeah, I know, laughing at others pain, blah blah. I laughed when my sister got bitten by a prairie dog and so did she. I guess we’re just not right. Second article: > [@](#): > > A local Boy Scout leader is recovering this week after wrestling with a rabid beaver in the Delaware River. … > Brousseau, who was in the water hanging onto a noodle float, noticed a dark shape nearby. “It came through my legs and attached itself to my chest,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/3 "2012-08-15T07:03:17Z")
All I can think when reading that is ‘of course it’s a beaver. They hate gays’. Sorry. It’s late and I’m tired. Gonna go to bed and likely dream about beaver. ---
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/4 "2012-08-15T10:00:55Z")
From what I [read on this](http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/proart/20120813/news01/308130009?pagerestricted=1), the beaver came up between the leader’s legs then latched onto his chest/abdomen rabidly (tested positive for rabies afterwards). Apparently most (or all) of the Scouts proceeded to beat the beaver to death with rocks. One of the boys’ statements (from a different source than above) was something like “We even used a 29-lb rock on him, anything we could find”. Talk about a Nature experience! Those boys/young men certainly took charge of the situation without pause, it appears. I would not want teeth such as a beaver’s coming at me with death in its eyes! ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/5 "2012-08-15T12:05:20Z")
I’m just amazed that the Scout knew the rock weighed exactly 29 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/6 "2012-08-15T12:07:31Z")
> [@](#): > > the Scouts proceeded to beat the beaver Is there a badge for that? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/7 "2012-08-15T14:19:21Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Is there a badge for that? I hope that they at least slap down a layer of NEOSPORIN® before sewing it on… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/8 "2012-08-15T14:25:44Z")
… [QUOTE=June Cleaver] Ward, that beaver was a little hard on the Boy Scout last week. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/9 "2012-08-15T14:43:44Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I’m just amazed that the Scout knew the rock weighed exactly 29 lbs. Boy Scouts can defeat a beaver, but only if they’re prepared. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/10 "2012-08-16T05:12:02Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Boy Scouts can defeat a beaver, but only if they’re prepared. Sounds more like they de-brained it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/11 "2012-08-16T14:49:34Z")
"Mom, Dad, I pounded a beaver at camp today! All of us guys took turns, and it was all gooshy!’ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/12 "2012-08-16T15:00:38Z")
Hard to keep a straight face on this one: The beaver was stunned for a second or two, Hedges said, but “then it started attacking the noodle.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/13 "2012-08-16T15:53:31Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Hard to keep a straight face on this one Yeah, but if you don’t, they’ll kick you out. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/14 "2012-08-16T16:16:32Z")
You laugh, but a gay Boy Scout leader might have _hesitated_ to throw himself on a rampaging beaver to protect the boys. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boy-scout-leader-attacked-by-rabid-beaver/631541/15 "2012-08-16T16:57:05Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I’m just amazed that the Scout knew the rock weighed exactly 29 lbs. That geology merit badge is harder to get than you’d think.