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15:19 PT – TMZ got the 911 call, made by a neighbor, from the incident … and you hear the moment when the man fires a shot at the animal. The caller says the baboon was beaten but is still alive while shippers scramble to get to the house.
14:49 PT The office of the Pender County Sherriff’s TMZ … officers contacted people in the area and those who encountered the baboon were treated in a hospital.
A rabid baboon attacked a North Carolina woman in her driveway and her husband jumped in and hurled the animal across the lawn … and it’s all captured in this wild video.
It went off in Pender County last week, when a man was getting ready to jump in his car. As he prepares to climb in, you hear the baboon growling and the woman screaming at her husband.
The man immediately recognizes the kind of animal and the danger, grabs the baboon and throws it across the lawn. He shouts that people should attack and then says that he is going to get his gun.
It is unclear if he shot the cat, but authorities say the animal died and tested positive for rabies.
As you probably know, someone who is touched by a rabid animal must undergo extremely painful rabies shots. We do not know if the woman was bitten, but judging by the screams, it looks like she was.
This is especially worrying because no one knows what contact the bobcat had with other people or animals. It could have bitten before it was killed, putting others in serious danger.
Really scary.
Originally Posted – 07:07 PT