Heck, I wish I was this much of a bad-ass now!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&c ... leopard_dc

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday.

Peasant farmer Daniel M'Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him.

M'Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard's mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal's tongue, leaving it in its death-throes.

"It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping," he told the daily Standard newspaper of how the leopard came at him and knocked him over.

The leopard sank its teeth into the farmer's wrist and mauled him with its claws. "A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide open mouth. I obeyed," M'Mburugu said.

As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete.

M'Mburugu was toasted as a hero in his village Kihato after the incident earlier this month. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities.

"This guy is very lucky to be alive," Kenya Wildlife Service official Connie Maina told Reuters, confirming details of the incident.

That leopard got owned.

why does he call Obi Wan Kenobi "God"???

Man his shit got fucked up! Stupid leopards

Everyone knows you just twist a leopard's ear and that will put them to the ground. Dumbass 73 yr old.

if im 73 and come face to face with a leopard, im fucked

why would a leopard just attack someone?

aren't they very passive unless you fuck with them?

I call bullshit. Nobody is able to rip out a leopard tongue. He cut it out after he poached it.

.gross. I don't know how that is even physically possible, but if it's at all remotely true, that man kicked some ass though tough for the animal.

Survival of the fittest at it's finest, I guess. I don't know if I believe it though.

~ pull my finger ~

I heard that a tiger killed like 43 Cambodian midget wrestlers a couple months ago.

there is a bigger difference between a leopard and a tiger

Seriously. How tough can an animal be if it wears leopard skin?

This seems a little fishy. Wouldn't it just be easier to chop its head off with the machete? It seems like the tongue would be hard to grip, and then you have to get it ripped out before its mouth shuts. The machete, on the other hand, can simply be thrust into the animal's forehead, and the job is done.

this is awful, where is the animal protection agency when you need it?

If history is able to teach us anything, its that old people just dont give a fuck. This is why they will make left hand turns, across traffic, that most stunt men wouldnt even try. I wouldnt be surprised if the old guy was actually able to do this, it was either kill or be killed.