NAIROBI - 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.

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this guy is the freakin man, ha my brother. That is pretty awsome, it gives me an idea...

It's pretty impressive since he's 73 too. Next thing you know, old guys are going to start kicking everyone's arses. 'Frail old men and women' will start their own revolution.

Don't mess with old people, they'll mess you up, and eat your dietary products.

wow....and i thought i knew tough people!!!

Some old people who live in the mountains of china and japan are crazy, you know those old long bearded dudes and hunched over old woman who have practiced the martial arts for 80 years, and dont get me started on the on the tibetan people I know they would not harm a fly but they are still mastars of shao lin kung fu, crazy old people I am still looking for one to train under. They are dang hard to get ahold of though...I truly hope to be one some day. My lifes goal!!!

My life's goal involving elderlyness is to be the cranky old woman in the neighborhood that sits on the porch on her rocker all day, pointing a rifle at them dang neighbor kids and shooting squirrels. But yeah, old senile people rock. And from what I know, can put up a hell of a fight.

When I read the story I posted, I was reminded of the man who's nephew had his arm bitten off by a shark so he ran into the water and beat the shark to death and got the arm back. Not sure if it's true, though.

Whoa thats pretty intense.
Another big cat (I dont know the story behind it)
I dont think he/she could do so much damage tho.

Thats one fat cat.

Although that must have been a horrible way for the cat to go, its still pretty amazing that some old dude did that.