In soviet russia fox shoots you!Follow

A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter's gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said Thursday.

The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a distance, was in hospital with a leg wound, while the fox made its escape, media said, citing prosecutors from the Grodno region.

"The animal fiercely resisted and in the struggle accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw," one prosecutor was quoted as saying.

Fox-hunting is popular in the picturesque farming region of northwestern Belarus which borders Poland.

Prosecutors? Are they trying to get the hunter and the fox both on attempted murder charges?

What the @#%^?

It's based on a 1977 novel The Plague Dogs, by the same author as Watershed Watership Down.

It's based on a 1977 novel The Plague Dogs, by the same author as Watership Down. Seems like a good enough novel. Sadly, it isn't a Kindle title or I'd have bought it to read.

It's based on a 1977 novel The Plague Dogs, by the same author as Watershed Down. Seems like a good enough novel. Sadly, it isn't a Kindle title or I'd have bought it to read.

Are you suggesting that italicizing book titles is incorrect?

I was taught MLA style and had to do a fair amount of handwriting, so it was pretty much always wrong to italicize for us. A quick google search reveals it appears to be entirely acceptable in type format and in some instances preferred.

I'm fairly vexed to discover this fact. I hate English so much.

So the U.S. is not so much a melting pot, but more like an event horizon?

No. I don't think most North Americans actually know what English sounds like.