- Or you might end up like this guy, and attacked by all three!
Some people have all the luck. And then, some people don’t.
This was the case for Dylan McWilliams. Last year McWilliams survived an attack by a 300-pound black bear. He was camping in Boulder County, CO.
“The bear grabbed the back of my head and started pulling me and I was fighting back as best as I could,” McWilliams said. “It dropped me and stomped on me a little bit, and I was able to get back to the group and they scared it away.”
Then, fast forward to last week, when McWilliams was boogie-boarding in Hawaii. About 30 yards from shore, he was suddenly knocked off his board and felt a searing pain in his right leg.
“At first I panicked.” McWilliams recalls of the day. “I didn’t know if I lost half my leg or what.”
McWilliams thinks the shark was a 6- to 8-foot tiger shark because he saw stripes and attempted to kick it hard before trying to swim to shore.
“That was the scariest part. I didn’t know where the shark was, and I didn’t know if he would come after me again,” he said.
He was able to make it to shore where people helped him out of the water and to the emergency room. Although the wounds weren’t life threatening, his cuts were deep from what we can see on his Facebook post.
Most people would be nervous about getting into the water again. But not McWilliams. He is mad because he has to wait to heal until he can get back on his boogie-board. “I’m just mad that I can’t get back in the water for a couple days,” he said.
And get this, these aren’t the only rogue animals McWilliams has come into contact with. Three years ago he was hiking in Utah when he was bit by a rattlesnake. What is it with this kid and being outside, in nature, with animals?
They might not like him, but that doesn’t change McWilliams feelings. “I’ve always loved animals and spent as much time with them as I could. I don’t blame the shark, I don’t blame the bear, and I don’t blame the rattlesnake.”
How weird that all these things happened to McWilliams, but be that as it may, he won’t be stopped.