Fox news

Forget about Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey who made such a giant spectacle of himself last summer, occupying most of a beach that was closed to the rest of the world except for himself and his family and the guy who delivers his WaWa hoagies.

That was last year's news, and it's hardly representative of the many reasons I love The Garden State.  New Jersey and its residents are among the coolest people on earth. We love it there.

Here's an item that caught my eye from Pittsgrove, N.J:

A woman was going out to tend to her backyard garden when a rabid fox (you have to assume that all wildlife is that way!) came along and tried to get her.  The animal was biting Tammy DuBois, 52, about the lower leg and ankle, even puncturing her skin.

This is the wrong thing to do to a New Jersey girl. Tammy reached down with one hand to hold shut the fox's mouth and, with the other, strangled it.


She did try to run and get back in the house, but when the fox wasn't having that, she stayed and fought.

"It was biting at my leg, I had to do something," DuBois said.

With one hand on the fox's snout, and the other wrapped around its neck, DuBois was able to subdue the fox, telling the news, "I couldn't do anything else to get it away from me. I don't like to kill anything."

With the fox down, she went into the house, cleaned and bandaged her leg, and got her husband to come home and take her to a hospital,where she is in the middle of a two-week series of rabies treatment.

Ms DuBois and her leg

Back at the scene, Animal Control took the deceased fox for tests and confirmed it had rabies, which makes the whole episode a case of justifiable foxicide.

As you go through the rest of your day, I hope it is a pleasant one, and I urge you to recall that people in New Jersey are capable of throttling medium-sized members of the animal kingdom when threatened by same.