Anybody from Da Range?

[h2ofwlr]

Well here I thought they had this legendary "tough guy" attitude about themselves.  But the legend is just that a legend, and  unwarranted to the extent that they are now certified Pansies, yes I said Pansies!

Think not?  Read on...



Eek!: Men scatter and start screaming after spotting 'giant rat' inside Minnesota tire shop

Feb 16, 9:58 PM EST
VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) -- A furry, uninvited guest had manly men at an Iron Range tire shop shrieking and hopping on desks. "It was pretty humorous," said conservation officer Dan Starr, who filed a report on the critter's break-in. "Here were these big, burly outdoors guys running around screaming." Taconite Tire employees arrived at work on Monday to find what they thought was a giant rat inside the store.

"I was the first one into work that morning and the first one out," said Shannon Bergman, an off-road tire salesman. "I walked in, and in the waiting area I saw this big rat, and I took off."

Mayhem ensued.

After scampering out the front door, Bergman called a buddy and told him to bring a rifle to dispatch the critter.

On edge, employees stalked the "rat," entering the office where it was hold up.

"We're looking around in the office and a box falls, and I must have jumped a foot," said Bob Dethloff, a brawny alignment specialist and stock car racer. "I thought it was going to attack me from behind."

Dethloff's son, Ryan, a mechanic at the shop, was armed with a broomstick.

All of a sudden, he spotted the "rat."

"Ryan comes out of the office screaming, and he says, 'It's huge!'" Bergman said. "It was the size of a cat."

"I guess he jumped on top of a desk and screamed like a girl who had seen a mouse," Starr said of Ryan Dethloff.

In the end, an employee shot and killed what turned out to be a muskrat.

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Information from: Duluth News Tribune, http://www.duluthsuperior.com


 

[schwinger]

That is hillarious... When I worked as a mechanic we had a guy do the same thing only it was a squirrel. He popped the hood and went in to check out a squeaky belt and screamed like a little girl when a squirrel popped out at him. Funny stuff.

[bemidjiman]

what

[Dr.Bob]

Hey Now >:(.  Just cause there may be a couple a sissies boys workin over at da tire shop don't mean Da Range ain't Da Range anymore!

I darn near sh*t when I read it too.
WTF?

[Benny]

I think the writer just wanted to make his chest stand out.

When I was groing up on the range I traped those "rats", many times I came to the trap line to find more than a few still alive and hissing at me.

A pair of thick welders gloves my dad got me from the old J&L mine did the trick to grab them and smack thier tiny little brian bucket with the beater stick.

Tangled with a mink one day, that one dam near got through the glove before I wrapped it one.

I would definatly not recamend any one try to grab the black and white kitty though.

Had a few "rats" come up through my spear holes before , now that can un nerve you a little to see one fly out of the water right in front of your nose.

Benny

[h2ofwlr]

How about a dog coming up through the spear hole?

Actually happened if I remember correctly on or near Leech Lake a few years back.  A guys dog plunged down the spear hole after a Pike.  He thought his beloved Lab was a goner.  About a minute later a ways away he heard this screaming and he looks out his door to see a guy bolt out of a spear shack and his dog exit it too.  Not kidding, actually happened.  Was in Outdoor Life's It Happened to me section.

I had a scuba diver go through my hole once.  The guy about crap as he turned to look at me, as I had the spear in hand and motioned that I was gonna throw it at him. The guy was screwing up my spearing by chasing the Pike away.

[Benny]

h2ofwlr , Yes that actualy happened.

I saw a news flash on the tv about it and read it in the local paper up North.

Benny