A High Point man was attacked by a fox while working on his car outside his sister's home. | PxHere.com
A High Point man was attacked by a fox while working on his car outside his sister's home. | PxHere.com
Foxes might look cute from a distance, but they can be dangerous.
One was even so bold as to attack a High Point man in the middle of the day on April 5 while he was outside fixing his sister's car. A neighbor who was outside at the time is now being credited as a hero for scaring off the fox.
“I was going to my car… and I heard this crazy noise, and I thought it was one of those birds flying over making noise because that’s the kind of noise it was making,” Chuck Alston told Fox 8 News after Tuesday's incident. Then he saw Darrin Watson struggling to get away from a fox that had jumped on him.
Watson’s mother, Anita McCallum, said her son was at his sister’s house fixing one of her cars when a fox came out from under the car he was working on and attacked him.
Watson tried to get away from the fox, but it bit him several times on the leg.
“I yelled at the fox to kind of just get away from him, pretty much,” Alston told Fox 8 News. “And by then, it had already bitten him, and the fox kind of ran off and just went across the street and laid down."
Alston called the police and stayed with Watson until the ambulance arrived. McCallum rushed home from work after she got the call. She later found out that her son was treated at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and would recover.
"I was just so scared for his life because it could have been my grandkids outside or anybody outside,” McCallum told Fox 8 News. “I just thank God that he’s alive and that the neighbor was out there with him, and it didn’t get worse than it was.”
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