Crocodile Dundee Has Got Nothing On This Guy....

NAIROBI (Reuters) - 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.