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saw the knife on TV, looked like a Schrade Old Timer lockback (Buck 110 style). some story:
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A man was recovering from serious injuries on Friday after he managed to use a pocketknife to fight off a vicious attack by a cougar on a remote road on northern Vancouver Island.
Attacked in the head, 62-year-old David Parker was able to pull out his small folding knife and kill the cat during the incident on Thursday evening. He then walked more than half a mile to get help from workers at a log-sorting facility.
"The will to live was definitely in this person," said Corporal Jeff Flindall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Port Alice, a small coastal logging community about 195 miles northwest of Vancouver.
Police said Parker was walking alone down a private road in the woods outside Port Alice when the adult male cat weighing about 90 pounds attacked him from behind, injuring his head and face.
The logging workers took Parker to Port Alice's medical clinic, but because of the extent of his injuries he was quickly transferred to a hospital in Victoria. He was listed in critical but stable condition after surgery on Friday.
Vancouver Island is estimated to have between 1,000 and 1,200 cougars. Although it is rare for the carnivorous cats to hunt humans, there have been at least four attacks in recent years on the northern end of the island.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A man was recovering from serious injuries on Friday after he managed to use a pocketknife to fight off a vicious attack by a cougar on a remote road on northern Vancouver Island.
Attacked in the head, 62-year-old David Parker was able to pull out his small folding knife and kill the cat during the incident on Thursday evening. He then walked more than half a mile to get help from workers at a log-sorting facility.
"The will to live was definitely in this person," said Corporal Jeff Flindall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Port Alice, a small coastal logging community about 195 miles northwest of Vancouver.
Police said Parker was walking alone down a private road in the woods outside Port Alice when the adult male cat weighing about 90 pounds attacked him from behind, injuring his head and face.
The logging workers took Parker to Port Alice's medical clinic, but because of the extent of his injuries he was quickly transferred to a hospital in Victoria. He was listed in critical but stable condition after surgery on Friday.
Vancouver Island is estimated to have between 1,000 and 1,200 cougars. Although it is rare for the carnivorous cats to hunt humans, there have been at least four attacks in recent years on the northern end of the island.