Angry beaver’s rampage of terror at Easter lands him in police van after arrest | World | News

It might sound like a case for the fictional Naked Gun comedy police detective Frank Drebin, but American law enforcement really were dispatched to reports of an angry beaver “terrorising” a neighbourhood. The anti-social behaviour beaver was logged by residents in Toms River, New Jersey, around 70 miles south of New York on Easter Sunday (April 5). Armed with inch-long teeth capable of cutting through solid wood, beavers can be a handful when confronted and attacks on people and pets have become more common as human habitation encroaches on their environment.

When defending their territory beavers have been known to be very aggressive. At least one fatal beaver attack has been recorded, after a 60-year-old fisherman died in Belarus in 2013 when a beaver bit his leg and severed an artery. The Toms River Police Benevolent Association (PBA), a union made up of law enforcement workers, shared a photo of this most recent beaver offender in the back of a patrol car.

Alongside the amusing photograph posted on April 6, the Toms River PBA said Details Patrolman Grayson Asprocolas was dispatched to the scene after reports on the unruly rodent.

The caption read: “Yesterday (April 5) Ptl. Asprocolas was dispatched to the report of a angry beaver terrorising some of our residents.

“Ptl. Asprocolas was able to successfully wrangle this guy and relocate him to a body of water.”

Luckily it appears this beaver was not suffering from rabies, a terrible dieseae which can drive the animals to attack. On September 6, 2021, the Valley Times reports Mark “Pres” Pieraccini, 73, from Massachusetts, almost drowned when he was attacked by a presumed rabid beaver as he was swimming in a remote pond.

Mr Pieraccini required stitches and medical attention after receiving bites to his head and arms, as well as a fractured finger and lacerated tendon.

In 2012 another suspected rabid beaver launched a terrifying assault on a Scout leader swimming in the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania.

The furious furry wouldbe assassin was eventually killed by the Scouts troop who stoned it to death with rocks, according to CBS News. Vets later confirmed the beaver had rabies.

Commenting under the post of the beaver arrest from Toms River PBA several people saw the funny side. One person said: “He looks like he will do it again.”

Someone who was clearly a fan just noted: “Nice beaver.”

Another added: “Ya (sic) NEVER want to mess with an angry beaver.”