A few years ago, the news agencies beat out a surprising story: a fox shot the hunter and sent him to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The facts.<\/p>\n
In the Grodno region of Belarus, a hunter shot a fox, only\u00a0succeeding in wounding it.<\/p>\n
After shooting the fox, the man approached it trying to immobilize and kill it with his bare hands.<\/p>\n
The animal reacted and, in the resulting scuffle, with one paw pulled the trigger of the rifle, letting off the shot still in the barrel.<\/p>\n
Then it fled.<\/p>\n
The man ended up in the hospital with a bullet in his leg.<\/p>\n
News agencies have all credited the fox with extraordinary cunning (what fox would be otherwise?) and, I would add, the ability to maintain a cool head after getting a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
I take the liberty of welcoming the story skeptically: I am more inclined to believe that the fox, having felt the man approaching, gathered the energy to sell his skin dearly.<\/p>\n
Now we come to the hunter.<\/p>\n
Why finish off the fox with bare hands?<\/p>\n
One theory is that another bullet could have ruined the fur.<\/p>\n
The other is that the hunter wanted to confront the animal on an equal footing, eliminating the advantage of the firearm: an epic hero.<\/p>\n
Was the animal wounded and the parity an illusion? Details.<\/p>\n
Whatever the real version, the fact remains that the hunter was at least reckless.<\/p>\n
For,<\/p>\n
And of this, the hunter, seemed not to have been aware:<\/p>\n
A few years ago, the news agencies beat out a surprising story: a fox shot the hunter and sent him to the hospital. The facts. In the Grodno region of Belarus, a hunter shot a fox, only\u00a0succeeding in wounding it. After shooting the fox, the man approached it trying to immobilize and kill it with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training-and-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n