This one is more strange than awful: an Austrian woman swimming in a Wisconsin lake last week says she was bitten repeatedly by otters; now she's getting precautionary rabies shots.
From the AP: Rabid Otters Attack Woman
She spotted an otter. "I thought it was really cool," she said. "I'd never seen an otter before. Then, all of a sudden, there were three of them."
She felt uncomfortable and swam to shore. She said she had her hands on the shore and legs in the water, "and there they were — one on the right leg and one on the left leg."
"I shook my legs, and they went away," France said. They bit her eight or nine times, but it "never really hurt much."
Rabid otters are not rare, though they are uncommon. Five years ago there was a rabid otter attack in New York
Rabid Otter bites boy
'He got out yelling, 'Help,' and crying, 'Get it off me,' and then he fell back into the water so I ran up to him and saw this thing hanging off of him,'' Mrs. Pedersen said yesterday.
Two lifeguards used kickboards to knock the otter off the boy. The animal then dashed around in the sand and unsuccessfully lunged at others. It ran back into the water and back on the beach before a lifeguard was able to throw a milk crate over it. Finally, a county sheriff's deputy came to the scene and shot the otter, which tested positive for rabies on Thursday.
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