Sounds like just another Saturday night on State Street.

-- Erik

> Five Hurt in Badger Rampage
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - An angry domesticated badger savaged five people, leaving
> one man so seriously injured he needed skin grafts, and chased away pursuing
> police officers during a 48-hour rampage through a quiet English town.
>
> One-year-old Boris launched what experts described as unprecedented attacks
> after finding himself hungry, alone and frightened after being stolen or
> released from a wildlife visitor center where he had been hand-reared and
> hand-fed.
>
> "I have been involved with badgers for 24 years and I have never heard of
> anything like this, nor has anyone I have spoken to," Mike Weaver, chairman
> of the Worcestershire Badger Society told Reuters on Tuesday.
>
> Weaver was brought in by police to catch Boris, who had bitten the five
> victims' arms and legs after getting loose near Evesham, Worcestershire, in
> central England.
>
> The officers themselves had been chased onto the bonnet of their car as they
> tried to round up Boris, who was later put down.
>
> Weaver said badgers were notoriously powerful animals and the incident
> showed the folly of trying to turn wild animals into pets.
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