Picture the scene: a Texan with a handgun spots a humble armadillo shuffling across his property at 3am on a Thursday morning.
He fires off three shots.
But the bullets are no match for the animal’s armour plating, which deflects at least one of the bullets right back into the shooter’s face.
In a week when hunting wild animals has been in the spotlight, it means at least one species has managed to chalk up a win – or at least a score draw.
“His wife was in the house,” he said. “He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo.”
The ricochet struck his jaw which had to be wired shut in hospital, he added.
The fate of the armoured mammal was less clear.
“We didn’t find the armadillo,” said the sheriff.
Most species of the mammal live in Southern or Central America, but the nine-banded armadillo is occasionally spotted in the southern states of the US, where they are considered a pest for digging up lawns or crops.
Their armour is made of bone.
And it is frequently enough to protect them from bullets it seems.
In April a man in Georgia claimed he had accidentally shot his mother-in-law when a 9mm round intended for an armadillo ricocheted off and struck her.
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