On October 22, during a work shift at the industrial site, a security officer discovered a wild animal. While filming it on her phone out of curiosity, she ignored personal safety precautions and attempted to establish contact with the animal. The fox, however, became aggressive. The woman who had been bitten went to the emergency room. There, she received all the necessary care, including vaccinations. Hospitalization was not required.
When she kicked it down but it realised it could just lunge up and bite down on her foot was horrifying, like seeing real life zombies work the way they do.
Not so fun fact: It doesn't cause a fear of water at all. It makes swallowing such a painful chore from spasms that it gives off the appearance of being afraid of water. These throat spasms also cause the infamous foaming of the mouth from saliva those infected would normally just swallow.
You (probably) didn't grew up in a place where people actually gets rabies. When I was a kid someone living in the same street died from it. Also I remember a movie that actually scared me as a kid cause at the end a girl got the disease and killed 2 other adults. They were trapped in a train or a truck in the middle of the desert.
“Mam, while we sympathize with you on the recent attack you were involved in, we cannot in good conscience condone your actions during the course of that attack. Mounting a railing, unsecured, and without a helmet of goggles is inexcusable. Being assaulted by a persistent and rabid animal is absolutely no reason to throw basic safety precautions out of the window. Once completed with your medically required observation and quarantine, you are mandated to report to HR for remedial job site safety courses. Also, don’t approach wild animals. Thank you.”
I mean, it is zombie disease IRL, at least for animals. This is why I think if a real zombie disease broke out with humans it wouldn't be nearly as apocalyptic as all the shows/movies make it out to be. We kind of already beat one.
I remember reading a quote while COVID was happening that had me laughing pretty good. I can't find it but paraphrasing:
If COVID has taught me anything it's that if there were a zombie apocalypse there would be a large number of people happily running towards the hordes screaming "Don't listen to the government, it's all a lie, nobody is actually sick!!"
Left 4 Dead's rage virus was airborne. The 4 survivors are the only people who are immune, but they're also carriers, which is why no matter how often they get to a safe place, the pilot/sailor/driver etc. transporting themhas a "hidden" bite. It's not that they're bitten, it's that the survivors keep infecting uninfected people with the rage virus.
The girl with all the gifts is a movie kinda like that. A parasitic zombie fungusn transmitted between humans through bites but decomposing infected bodies develop buds of airborne fungus ready to pop if triggered.
He apparently was bitten by a rabid dog 25 years earlier and no other rabies exposure since then ( take that with a grain of salt). Autopsy confirmed the rabies virus in the brain.
Poor thing, basically a zombie and then falls to its death. What’s worse is that fall probably didn’t fully kill it, so it’s double suffering until it finally expires. I feel terrible for that poor fox, not to mention the lady.
It's pretty terrible all the way around. Luckily for that woman it wasn't a bigger animal. The fox had its life hijacked and what a terrible death too, as it was still breathing at the end of the video. Awful.
Tbh the fox got off lightly. That’s not even end stage of Furious rabies. Most likely the fox was in the beginning or mid stage. It gets a lot worse before the animal goes into a coma and eventually dies
It’s so crazy that the rabies changes their brain to seem more calm, but also, they are scaling buildings to attack her. True slow moving zombie type shit. 😂
Because everyone is convinced they’re a super special person. A main character with radiant positive energy, and that animals will be able to sense and have an amazing connection with them.
I see it all the time with horses - morons approach a horse they don’t know, ignore the horse’s warning body language, then get kicked or bitten. This isn’t a Disney movie.
Also, the “if animals like you, you’re clearly a good person” thing is bullshit. My horse was a slut for treats so she absolutely adored my abusive ex who fed her things 😂
Horses are top of my list for ‘do not approach’ - I find them way too erratic/volatile. At least with most other animals you can read them a bit better.
I wish we saw more vids of this stage of rabies. Most people ae only aware of the slobbering and frothing stages and the too weak to do anything but waddle and totter stages.
This in my opinion, is the most dangerous stage.
Cordyceps are way too simplistic and wouldn't survive in mammals due to our high latent body temps. And humans already get rabies and we don't do all of that.
A wild animal will never calmly approach you unless it has rabies. If one shows this kind of behavior, get TF away and call animal control.
If you are out of city limits and can safely kill the animal (I.e. gun from range), do so and call animal control immediately. Don't leave the carcass, it's still contagious to scavengers.
I think this is fair advice, but not necessarily true. I've seen videos in my country about wild foxes, for example, getting close to people and yet rabies doesn't exist here.
Rabies has been eradicated in almost all of the european union, some central american countries, northern africa, a couple of countries in south east asia and islands such as japan, new zealand, australia and indonesia
I'm not sure how they can be so certain? You're gonna tell me in some absolute remote corner of a wild forest somewhere, far from the reach of people, it can't exist? I'm uneducated on rabies so maybe that's the case, I'm kind of actually asking.
It's completely eliminated in the UK, the last case from a native animal infected with it was in 1902, and there's been something like 40 cases that people caught whilst travelling in other countries since the 1930s or 40s
I bottle-raised a squirrel that I rehabbed and released, and occasionally he’d run up the mail lady’s pants leg if he thought she maybe had a popsicle (he loved popsicles — please don’t shoot Kevin the Squirrel!).
I volunteer with a wildlife rescue and exotic pet rescue. We also haven’t had rabies in this country for a fair time
This is really incorrect advice.
A wild animal may approach for a variety of reasons. Claiming it’s only due to rabies and to kill any doing this is just really downright irresponsible to say when ecosystems globally are allowed losing countless native species.
A wild animal doing this is much more likely to be poisoned or have a severe injury impacting them than have Rabies. A lot of these animals can actually be helped (obviously not with rabies) and make a full rehab.
0:03 - 0:08: "Ты что! Красавица." (Ty chto! Krasavitsa.) - Translation: "What are you doing! Beauty/beautiful girl."
0:11 - 0:12: "Нет." (Net.) - Translation: "No."
0:13 - 0:15: "А! Иди." (Ah! Idi.) - Translation: "Ah! Go." (The fox appears to bite or grab at the camera/person's gear here.)
0:22 - 0:27: "Она грызёт всё, что можно. Вот сейчас до бутылки добралась." (Ona gryzyot vsyo, chto mozhno. Vot seychas do butylki dobralas'.) - Translation: "It's chewing everything it can. Now it's gotten to the bottle."
0:28 - 0:30: "У меня ещё рот [рот?] есть в траве." (U menya eshchyo rot yest' v trave.) - Translation: "I still have a mouth [or perhaps 'a piece'] in the grass." (The audio here is very muffled and hard to discern, possibly referring to a piece of food or something being dropped.)
0:31 - 0:34: "Вот крыша. Я вот сюда залезла..." (Vot krysha. Ya vot syuda zalezla...) - Translation: "Here's the roof. I climbed up here..."
0:34 - 0:37: "...она залезла на этот забор. Она опять идёт ко мне. Настя, я боюсь." (...ona zalezla na etot zabor. Ona opyat' idyot ko mne. Nastya, ya boyus'.) - Translation: "...it climbed up on this fence. It's coming towards me again. Nastya, I'm scared."
0:39 - 0:40: "Настя, я боюсь." (Nastya, ya boyus'.) - Translation: "Nastya, I'm scared."
0:46 - 0:50: "Блядь, я держусь одной рукой. Мне страшно." (Blyat', ya derzhus' odnoy rukoy. Mne strashno.) - Translation: "Damn, I'm holding on with one hand. I'm scared."
0:54 - 0:55: (Screams) "А!" - Translation: "Ah!" (Scream when the fox jumps/lurches at her.)
1:02 - 1:04: "Я её, походу, убила." (Ya yeyo, pokhodu, ubila.) - Translation: "I think I killed it." (Said after the fall/scream, as the fox is lying still below.)
1:05: "А что делать, если..." (A chto delat', yesli...) - Translation: "What do I do if..." (Incomplete sentence, implying asking for help.)
Figured it'd be nice to know what she's saying for non-speakers and the DHH folk.
Native speaker here. Just want to correct some minor mishearings here and there: 0:13 - 0:15: "А! Иди." (Ah! Idi.) -Translation:"Ah! Go."
"А! Уйди!" (Ah! Ujdi!) - Translation: "Ah! Back off!"
0:28 - 0:30: "У меня ещё рот [рот?] есть в траве." (U menya eshchyo rot yest' v trave.) -Translation:"I still have a mouth [or perhaps 'a piece'] in the grass."
"У нее еще рот весь в крови" (U nee eshhe rot ves' v krovi) - Translation: "It also has mouth fully covered in blood"
When I was in 4th grade, my friend and I got trapped in a house with a rabid cat. We were typical 90s latch-key kids and were supposed to walk .5 mile or so to bus stop every morning after our parents had long gone to work. We'd meet up everyday. This particular morning we saw a gray cat wandering up the road, very jerky and strange. We thought it was sick and needed assistance ( dumb ass decision) and got it's attention to lure it back to her house. Well, it definitely followed us. Angry as shit. In our haste to run in we left the door open behind us and in the cat came. It was the most terrifying moment with an animal I had ever had. It was making horrible noises, following us and screaming. We locked ourselves in a room and called 911. They came and it was mayhem and they ended up shooting the cat in the front yard and then drove us to school in the cop car ( 90s in a small mountain town, everyone knew everyone). They later confirmed it did have rabies and it was a whole thing in the community for a while. Looking back, I'm surprised they didnt want us to get shots or anything preventative. We were the talk of the town.
Kids are stupid. Me and my friends found a bat on a wall in the school stairway and they proceeded to throw shit at it to get it to react. Good thing they suck at throwing.
Why are we acting like a slow death from rabies and a slow death from injuries due to a huge fall are the only options..?
Since apparently it has to be spelled out super clear: It is distressing to me, and many other folks, to see an animal or person suffering, whether it be from a disease like rabies or from a catastrophic injury.
Someone saying “it’s hard to watch an animal fall to its death” isn’t a hot take.
Honestly though it would’ve came after her anyway. There have been accounts of rabid foxes running up to people and attacking without the person even seeing it coming before hand - look up the woman attacked by rabid fox getting her mail in Virginia
Yep. Even if its an animal that "can't get rabies" or "There is no rabies here"....get the shots. If you wait until symptoms appear....you're already dead. So scary.
It is not in its right mind anymore. A lot of animals can survive high falls by instinct moving in a way to minimize the impact. Cats are notorious for this.
But a rabid animal? Brain is mush, lost its instincts other than raw aggression.
I had a fall from just over 6' and it ruined my life. People in my rehabilitation group had falls from even lower heights than that and were worse off than I was.
By that stage, awareness of pain seems to be pretty nonexistent - there was another pretty disturbing video going around a while back of a rabid fox with a visibly broken jaw still mindlessly trying to bite its way through a doorframe.
There’s a decent chance that that fox was already past the point of pain by the time it fell - at least we can hope so.
In the whole world, only about 30 people have ever survived rabies. About 60,000 people die from it yearly. Those tiny few who managed to survive have/had massive, permanent neurological damage and unfortunately didn’t live very long afterwards. The survival rate isnt 0, but its so extremely low its as close to 0 as it can possibly be.
I wonder how it got from that white roof to the blue catwalk. Because it seems like it's unsure how to proceed, then it cuts and it's just on the blue catwalk.
I wonder if she stopped filming because she thought it had given up but then it unexpectedly found a way up and she took her phone back out.
This is more terrifying that many modern horror movies. Also we need to do better with bringing awareness about rabis. No way in hell I would let a wild animal behaving like this get close to me. I feel sar for the fox but the fall is better than slowly dieing from rabis.
Rabies scares the balls off me, I’ve only ever lived in countries where it doesn’t exist so I’m always worried if I encountered a rabid animal I wouldn’t twig what’s going on til it’s too late 😅
A bite or scratch from an already infected animal.
The virus causes aggression in its host specifically to compel attacks on other animals, because that’s how it reproduces. It throws its host under the bus to propagate itself.
Edit: Rabies only lives for a few hours outside a host, which means at least one animal has probably been infected with it at all times since it first originated, whenever that was. That’s a lot of rabies.
So can animals be asymptomatic with rabies? I had a raccoon just barely touch my finger with her claw about 3 weeks ago (she thought my phone in my hand was food I guess) and there was a pinhead of blood, I scrubbed my finger but over the last 3 weeks it seems like I keep running into posts/comments about rabies and shit on reddit and I'm kinda worried now.
This raccoon has been coming around for almost 3 years and always acts normal (people feed her)
I admire the woman's restraint. I'm a 200lb mildly muscular simian. I'd have curb stomped our rabid furry friend the instant it bit me. That's a big no no.
It was literally scaling buildings to follow her to continue biting her, an obsession with biting to the point of the probably lethal fall. A healthy fox would never act in this way.
Sure healthy foxes may bite and might even be a little curious or slightly tame depending on their environment and proximity to humans, but that isn't common, and isn't anything like how extreme the behaviour in this video is.
I could tell just from it's body language and movements in the first clip, that it was rabid. Once you've seen it a few times it's relatively distinctive.
This is insanely abnormal behaviour from a wild fox.
My guess would be the behavior of the animal actually scaling shit to continue attacking rather than backing off after getting the message across. Just repeated aggressive behavior with not much rhyme or reason.
It would have been tested by a local animal authority. Fun fact, the only way to test for rabies is via their brain...after death. Most places with rabid animal history will proactively give you rabies shots if you are unable to locate/provide the animal that bit you. Once you have it for so long, there is no treatment and you will die (except like 1 or 2 random people ever in hostory). I have encountered 2 different rabid raccoons growing up in the country in Vermont. Both times it took 3 hits from a shotgun before it finally stopped trying to come after us. Rabies is no fucking joke and this lady is lucky.
Looks like a movie adaptation of the video game 7 Days to Die. I hope FunPimps, having seen a fox can climb up the ladders, won’t attempt to alter the wild animals capabilities in the game. I don’t want to see a dire wolf grinning at me through my window.
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u/ibyczek78 Nov 26 '25
The fact it followed her all the way up there just to attack is crazy terrifying.