A camel killed its owner by biting off its head after he had left the animal outside in the sweltering heat all day with its legs tied up.
The owner had been entertaining guests at his home in Rajasthan's Barmer district in India on Saturday when he remembered the camel had been outside in the intense heat all day.
But when he went to untie the animal and take it to a cooler area, the camel became aggressive and started attacking him.
And according to one villager, the camel then bit off the man's head leaving him dead.
The man told the Times of India: 'The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head.'
Villagers also revealed that the same camel had attacked the owner in the past and 25 of them struggled for six hours to restrain the animal.
Areas in Rajasthan are seeing some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in India with the mercury reaching 51 degrees Celsius.
Indian media reported 16 deaths in Rajasthan, where nearly 17,000 villages in 19 of 33 districts were facing water shortages. (...)
The world's most powerful scientific machine was shut down on Thursday... by a weasel.
The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile long particle accelerator located in Switzerland, experienced technical issues after a small animal chewed through a power cable, according to NPR.
My wife will be happy to hear this, I don't understand the details, but she is convinced that this Collider will bring on the end of the world and the scientists who run it are evil or something. I haven't done the math on this, but she certainly has.
The world's most powerful scientific machine was shut down on Thursday... by a weasel.
The Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile long particle accelerator located in Switzerland, experienced technical issues after a small animal chewed through a power cable, according to NPR.
An East Texas man was hospitalized early Thursday morning after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted back at his head, KLTV reported.
The man shot at the armadillo just before 3 a.m. on Thursday after seeing it on the freeway in the town of Marietta, Texas, according to Cass County Sheriff official.
The bullet ricocheted back at his head. The man was treated for minor injuries. Local reports are unclear as to the condition of the armadillo.
This was the second armadillo-shooting-followed-by-ricochet of the year. The first, in Georgia in April, injured the shooter’s mother-in-law. The man shot the armadillo, the bullet bounced and then passed through a fence and into her mobile home while she sat in a recliner. Her injuries were minor but the armadillo did not survive.
A Texas man was wounded after he fired a gun at an armadillo in his yard and the bullet ricocheted back to hit him in his face, the county sheriff said Friday.
Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said the man, who was not identified, went outside his home in Marietta, Texas, at around 3 a.m. local time Thursday morning. He spotted the armadillo on his property and opened fire.
"His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo," Rowe said.
The animal's hard shell deflected at least one of three bullets, which then struck the man's jaw, he said.
The man was airlifted to a nearby hospital, where his jaw was wired shut, according to Rowe.
The status of the animal is unknown.
"We didn't find the armadillo," the sheriff said.
Probably crawled away and died. A fate that should have been reserved for the "man" who shot him.
They're hardy animals, and they broke his fall somewhat.
