FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga.,None — Wildlife officials are looking for a beaver after it bit a man on Lake Lanier.
Russ McTindal thought he was going to have a relaxing day of fishing when a large beaver suddenly came at him.
"When he got close enough, I whacked him a couple of times with a fishing rod on top of the head," McTindal said. "He even speeded up more. When he got to the bank, he come in chomping."
The beaver bit his leg and arm.
"He was attacking me," McTindal said. "He was actually attacking me. I hadn't provoked him or anything. Apparently when I went down, he pulled his head out locked on to me."
McTindale used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
"I was losing some blood, a lot of blood."
"I've never tried to fight off a 35, 40 pound beaver off. This was one of the biggest beavers I've ever seen," he said.
He had to get rabies shots, too.
"I know there are two things you don't mess with in the woods. You don't mess with raccoons because they (are) mean. And you don't mess with beavers."