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leopard attack in indian school

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    What a catastrophe.🐯


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    Are you fur-real


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Great way to keep kids in class.

    Hope no one was seriously injured!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭TeaBagMania


    Looks like he just wanted to play


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭darlett


    I'd say he would have much less pumped up and agressive if they'd stopped with that drumbeat.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭PC Lackey


    I watched it out of genuine concern rather than morbid fascination.

    Those poor people etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    He fancied an Indian :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Teacher: where is your homework?

    Student: a Leopard ate it.

    Teacher: Detention!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He was only messing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I wish I could say that this leopard wouldn't do the same again but....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    good kitty


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Secretary: Principal Sadist, there are children on the corridors

    Principal: *narrows eyes* release the leopard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    I would have been in that pool (unless this school keeps crocodiles in the pool). Win win, don't get mauled by the leopard and also get to go home as can't stay in school in wet cloths


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Scary stuff, :eek: thankfully nobody was killed.
    I would have been in that pool (unless this school keeps crocodiles in the pool). Win win, don't get mauled by the leopard and also get to go home as can't stay in school in wet cloths
    Actually leopards are strong swimmers. As are tigers. It's generally only the household kitty that looks at water and thinks GTFO monkey boy(and I once watched a cat swim a stream. Seemed pretty good at it too). Apparently screaming at the top of your lungs while running at them and waving your arms like a madman puts many big cats off. You'd want some stones to try it mind you. I did read of Indian park rangers that wore halloween face masks on the back of their heads when walking through tiger country as apparently they prefer to come up from behind at a human and this would make them less likely to go for you. Me, I'd be looking more for a shotgun loaded with deer slugs myself.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    The one thing I don't get is that this Leopard looks relatively small compared to the humans - I've seen bulkier labradors. Surely two or three of them could have overpowered it? It seems to me that running around yelling and firing guns at it just pissed it off and was probably the absolute worst way to react.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Scary stuff, :eek: thankfully nobody was killed.

    Actually leopards are strong swimmers. As are tigers. It's generally only the household kitty that looks at water and thinks GTFO monkey boy(and I once watched a cat swim a stream. Seemed pretty good at it too). Apparently screaming at the top of your lungs while running at them and waving your arms like a madman puts many big cats off. You'd want some stones to try it mind you. I did read of Indian park rangers that wore halloween face masks on the back of their heads when walking through tiger country as apparently they prefer to come up from behind at a human and this would make them less likely to go for you. Me, I'd be looking more for a shotgun loaded with deer slugs myself.

    I find pushing the person next to you onto the ground while running away increases your survival skills. Either that or feed it small children while you back away slowly.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭PC Lackey


    The one thing I don't get is that this Leopard looks relatively small compared to the humans - I've seen bulkier labradors. Surely two or three of them could have overpowered it? It seems to me that running around yelling and firing guns at it just pissed it off and was probably the absolute worst way to react.

    It has knives for fingers and can run as fast as a car.

    Its basically a cross between Freddie Kruger and Usain Bolt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Wibbs; I can't PM this ~ but, anyone else interested in some bowel loosening stuff might also like: Jim Corbett. Specialist hunter of man eating tigers and leopards. He's available, free, on line.

    I'd always heard of him and assumed he would be a trumped up, full of himself bull ****ter who shot things.

    Not a bit of it! Very personable and modest man. He makes it absolutely crystal clear that, when hunting a man killer, he was scared ****less! Epic reading! :)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    The one thing I don't get is that this Leopard looks relatively small compared to the humans - I've seen bulkier labradors. Surely two or three of them could have overpowered it?
    They are far stronger than a dog of that size and far far stronger than a human. Serious muscle power going on. They would often go for prey slightly larger than them in the wild. That's before we get to claws like rapiers and teeth like daggers with the bite strength of a vice. I've played about with captive human habituated wolves and they're about the size and general build of a German Shepherd(skinnier actually, they're all fur :)), but their physical power is immediately evident even in play, much stronger than a German Shepherd and these were juveniles, barely over yearlings.

    Generally speaking pound for pound humans are remarkably weak. Something much smaller like a baboon would tear you apart. Our strength comes from brains and weapons. The last humans who could take on a leopard one on one hand to claw died out around 30,000 years ago.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    AH isn't a news dump. The next time you make a topic. Contribute your own opinion if don't want it to be locked.


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