Syracuse.com - Hunter claims he shot Big Foot in 2012, deer trashes home: Oddities in the Outdoors

HuntingNY-News · January 20, 2014

Firefighters rushed to an Arizona woman's home after she reported an intense brawl taking place on her back porch -- between a squirrel and a snake. The squirrel won.

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The following are among the more interesting, bizarre and humorous outdoors stories I've come across lately:

1). A Big Foot hunter claims he killed one of the beasts in 2012 -- and is now preparing to take it on tour across the country to prove his point.

The incident occurred down in San Antonio, Texas. Hunter Rick Dwyer told reporterss:

"I nailed ... pork ribs from the WalMart down the street to the side of the tree, and low [sic] and behold, he came and started eating the pork ribs off the tree."

He videotaped it with his cell phone and when it later returned he shot it, he said.

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2. It was a vacationing family's worst nightmare - coming home and finding their home trashed and blood all over.

A deer had broken into their Tennessee home while they were away.

In a video Chad Smith shot with his cell phone, you can't see the deer, but you can see the bloody mess and broken windows it left behind, according toWMC-TV .

"When she saw me, that's when she went nuts, running into the wall, hitting the TV, hitting the windows," said Chad. "It looked like a small murder scene with blood all over the windows, the floor, the furniture, the TV," told a reporter from the TV channel's news team. See photos of the damage.

3). Zach Gilford, a star of the TV show, "Friday Night Lights" said in a recent interview in U.S.A. Today he was almost attacked by a bear "multiple times" while in Alaska and Yosemite.

"If you run they're gonna catch you and maul you anyway. Stand your ground; it's your only chance," Gilford said.

4). What animal is the top predator of wild birds? (Hint: It's not human waterfowl or upland bird hunters.)

According to an article in U.S.A. Today, "Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year."

5). Firefighters rushed to an Arizona woman's home after she reported an intense brawl taking place on her back porch, according to azentral.com.

It was between a ground squirrel and a gopher snake.

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