06 December 2010
A HILL walker has told how she endured a two-hour reindeer attack in the Highlands.
Pat Cook, 57, from Renfrew, was walking alone in the Cromdale hills east of Grantown-on-Spey when she spotted a light-coloured deer in the distance. Shortly after she reached the summit of Carn a’Ghille Chearr, the reindeer reappeared and charged her, throwing her on to her back.
She said: “One of my walking poles was thrown into the air. The reindeer kept trying to stick its antlers into me, but I managed to brace my feet on them. I began bashing it over the head with my other walking pole. I couldn’t believe what was happening, and I was aware that I was running out of strength.
“I was shouting for help but there was no-one there. I couldn’t keep it at bay any longer and collapsed in a heap with my rucksack protecting my back.
“I grabbed the antlers to try and avoid getting stabbed and it started to bump me along the ground. Eventually, I fell and landed in a heap.”
Ms Cook, who has climbed all 284 of Scotland’s Munros, said any time she tried to stand up and make a run for it, the reindeer would bundle her back on to the ground.
She said: “If I didn’t move and didn’t shout or blow my whistle, it didn’t touch me, but I knew I couldn’t lie there in the snow all day.”
Two hours after the initial attack, Ms Cook finally made her escape, distracting the reindeer by throwing items of her packed lunch in the opposite direction.
She was left with deep bruises on her arms, legs and head.
The animal is a two-year-old bull, part of the 130-strong Cairngorm Reindeer Herd (CRH). A spokeswoman from CRH said: “To prevent any other confrontations, the reindeer was taken down off the hill to our fenced area.”
http://news.scotsman.com/weather/Reindeer-in-twohour-attack-on.6650984.jp
Global warming made the reindeer angry
This woman had food and it took her two hours to come up with the idea to use it as a decoy? Thank goodness it wasn’t a bear. This story serves as a reminder that we should not interfer with nature when it tries to eliminate the unfit.
Too hot, it’s not -45C, it makes them angry
At least it wasn’t that “killer rabbet” after Carter.
rabbit
Or worse it could have been Eli Rabett bombarding you with bristlecones.
Here’s some news like it:
Bush chasing Obama in the polls, and passing him:
12/6/2010
George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent….. That’s 1 point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating….. .Obama’s stumbles and dimming public memories of Bush’s shortcomings appear to be helping fuel the more positive reassessment of him.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46019.html
Heh, that’s gotta hurt. It’s all George’s fault!
The gods are upset, they want a global warming theme park, not an ark theme park
http://www.theage.com.au/world/holy-row-creates-headache-for-modern-day-noahs-ark-20101206-18msp.html
It appears reality is attacking Al Gore:
Downsizing operations, but not disclosing details about the money….the 300 million
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45985.html
In a twisted way Al Gore might have been partly responsible for the 2008 floods in Iowa. As you know Al admitted to promoting ethynol subsidies in Iowa for political self-interest in his bid to become president which began in Iowa. It turns out that a book “A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008” explains that part of the reason for the flooding was the change in land use by farmers who in previous years switched to and expanded crops that produced biofuels. The increased incorporation of tiling (Tiling in agriculture is laying lines of porous tiles, or today plastic lines that are perforated, under the ground to carry excess water from the fields to a ditch) reduced the Earths ability to absorb water thereby contributing to the floods. When I checked the precipitation data the record for rain in Iowa was 1851. So now even with less rain there is more flooding.
There’s got to be a mistake! Mother Gaia wouldn’t be so mean to an innocent hiker/climber. She must work for an oil company or something!