Posted on 04/30/2014 6:35:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A badger in Norway got hit so hard in a car collision that it became wedged into the grille. But when the driver levered it out with a stick, to his amazement the animal scampered away into the nearby woods.
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"I was very surprised that it was alive," Borgar Kristensen, 50, told The Local on Wednesday. "After four or five minutes, the animal went down the road. It was not badly injured."
Kristensen was travelling at 80km down the E18 highway in southern Norway in the early hours of the morning when he spotted the badger, known as a 'grevling' in Norway, in his headlights.
He couldn't swerve out of the way as there was a car coming down the opposite lane, so he rammed straight into the unfortunate animal.
To his horror, when he stopped in a safe place, he saw that the badger had become firmly wedged into the front grille of his Peugeot car. Together with his three colleagues he then found a stick nearby to prise the animal out. It was only then that he realized that miraculously, it had not been badly hurt.
Kristensen did nothing after the incident, which took place a year ago. He only sent in the pictures to Norway's VG newspaper when he read a story on Monday about a woman who got a small deer stuck in the front grille of her car, also a Peugeot, in Potters Bar, London.
"I had the picture in my mobile phone and I saw this story in the VG newspaper and I sent the picture to them," he told VG.
General/Chat should have been been your clue.
“Compared to all the silliness of the “All Your Base are Belong to Us” stuff in 2001”
There were times where I didn’t think I would live through that.
That beats the hell out of my "we don't need to stinkin' badgers"
Also, this wins 1.21 Internets.
We’re some tough little bastards.................
Are there any other kind?..................
At least he wasn’t stealing crab legs from Publix........................
At least they don’t steal crab legs from Publix............
I saw that show over the weekend, or art least the same guy. He taped the badger escaping from his confinement in various ways. Climbed a dead tree trunk, so they took out the tree trunk. Stacked rocks, so they took out all the rocks. Then the badger used urine and dirt to make mud and rolled the mud into balls and stacked them up. That is one smart badger!......................
That’s the one. I was amazed.
We had a parrot years ago that would not stay in her cage. She would manipulate the latch and get out no matter what. We even wired it shut and she would nip and pull at it until she got it lose..........................
I think I heard today that the reason that Jameis did not go through the line was that he was trying to avoid a sack...
I saw that this past weekend and it was hilarious!
LOL!!!................................
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?................................
A pet badger? Now that’s hardcore...
My brother had a raccoon, and that thing was bad enough.
1.21 internets! Great Scott!
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