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Outfoxed

Officer Harold Nunuvero of the Ellenville (N.Y.) Police Dept. was dispatched to investigate “an aggressive rabid fox” in town. He found it: “without warning or provocation” the animal charged him, but he couldn’t shoot it because it wasn’t safe — his backup, Sgt. Robert Morse, and a civilian, were in the line of fire, so Nunuvero tried to escape the fox by quickly scaling a fence. In his haste, the officer caught his foot in the fence, making him fall. Luckily, he fell onto the far side of the fence, and the fox didn’t get him — and Sgt. Morse was able to safely shoot it. As Nunuvero landed, something caught the trigger of his service pistol, which shot him point blank in the chest. Luckily, Nunuvero was wearing a bulletproof vest, and escaped serious injury. (RC/Kingston Daily Freeman) ...He may not have the nimbleness of a cat, but I think he just used up two of his nine lives.