Water buffaloes can be formidable beasts in the wild, but they may also do some serious damage even when dead and mounted on a wall.
(Water buffalo stopping to graze in Thailand; Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
AP reports that a Florida Keys man was enjoying a nice nap when a stuffed water buffalo's mounted head fell from the wall behind him, trapping him in his recliner chair. The head fell with a sudden thud on the poor man's lap and was too enormous for him to remove. (I also hope the horns didn't puncture his legs in any way.)
Somehow he managed to reach his cell phone and call the Monroe County Sheriff's office. Deputies there report that the victim had to scream out his address and predicament.
I'm trying to get a mental visual of this, but perhaps the phone was on a side table, or he couldn't properly reach it to his face.
After the mounted head was removed from his lap, the man was taken to a Florida hospital for treatment.
Tags: Animals, Human Behavior, Humans, Mammals, Weird News
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