Hiker gored by American Bison on Cataline Island Posted: 2 years ago by Maven
A backpacker fell prey to one of Southern California's lesser-known hazards: being gored by an American bison on Santa Catalina Island.
What would posses someone to get within 20 feet of a 2000 pound wild animal?
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Woman gored by deer at hunting preserve Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A woman studying wetlands for an engineering firm was gored by a deer at a hunting preserve. Jamie Detweiler, 35, of Ligonier, was gored in the leg when the buck charged her at 6 Springs Hunts near Shanksville on Wednesday.
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Hundreds flee S. Californian Island wildfire Posted: 3 years ago by thephrog
Firefighters working through the night turned back flames that threatened Santa Catalina Island's main city and forced hundreds of people to evacuate amid falling ashes.
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What's better than being gored? Posted: 2 years ago by cleopatrareborn
How about having your brother simultaneously gored by the same bull and your picture being one of the most e-mailed around the world? Sounds like fun vacation...
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 143 [+].
Three Mile Island cited for "moderate to severe" security problems Posted: 2 years ago by moe
Of all the place I would not expect this...to those of you too young to recall, Three Mile Island is home to what almost became the American version of Chernobyl*.
*If you are too young too know what Chernobyl was, freaking google it, I am too lazy to provide a link. But it was a million laughs for sure.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 311 [+].
Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice Quarantine Island Posted: 2 years ago by Moe
Got the plague? Onto the island. Vomiting? Onto the island. Fever? Island. Sniffles with a mild cough? You get the idea. You stayed there until you got well or died. Judging from the mass graves, not many got well.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 148 [+].
Venezuela gives back island to US Posted: 7 months ago by bingo
The Venezuelan government has formally donated an island near Philadelphia back to the United States. Petty Island, an uninhabited island some 528 acres (214 ha) in size, is situated in the Delaware River in the state of New Jersey.
It was bought by Venezuela's state-run energy company, PDVS, in 1990.
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Boy posing for photos at Yellowstone gets flipped in the air by a bison Posted: 1 year ago by bevissimo
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - A 12-year-old boy is in the hospital after a bison he was posing near flipped him in the air at Yellowstone National Park.
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New Zealand's Main Islands Were Never Officially Named Posted: 7 months ago by pocksucket
New Zealanders didn't exactly push the boat out when they called the northern island North Island and... Well, I'm sure you know what the southern island is called. Turns out though that they also never got round to legally adopting these names. There's now a move to exploit this to rename the islands as the Maori originals.
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More man-made designer realty – Reef Island Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
...previously known as Lulu Island, is being re-launched with a brand new marketing push targeting high income investors and residents from across the Gulf.
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Person of interest in missing hiker case in custody Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
The man last seen with missing hiker Meredith Emerson in the north Georgia mountains is in custody and is being questioned by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, authorities announced Friday evening.
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Island Uses Poop Plug to Fill a Volcano Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
The waste would be dumped on a side of the volcanic island that had been extensively quarried in the past 50 years. The island's original volcanic cone formation could also be rebuilt using the biosolids.
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Score One for the Bull: Matadors Getting Gored Posted: 5 months ago by xvbones
Pretty simplistic. Young men armed with nothing but a sword, a cape and silly costume (plus lots of assistants with spears) versus massive, wounded animals with nothing to lose.
Call it the height of machismo, call it savagely inhumane, whatever you call it, it doesn't always end well for the dude in the silly costume. (Nothing really terrible, but there is some blood and it's all about matadors getting shanked and trampled, so click warned.)
Comments: 12 Score: [-] 391 [+].