Wanted: Rochester Reddit user who posted about rabid beaver in Perinton

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The Monroe County Department of Public Health is asking for help finding someone who posted about an aggressive beaver in Perinton.

In a September 25 post to the Rochester subreddit , the person writes about an August 29 encounter with what they thought was a muskrat in Spring Lake Park. They said they were near the water trying to sit on a log when the creature attacked them.

“I waited for him to give me some distance, hopped off the log and started walking to dry land,” the user time2fight-Dork66678 wrote. “I turn around and he’s chasing me so I run to my shoes. I turn around with shoe in hand and he’s still coming so I smacked him in the face with it. He stopped charging and stood there holding his face for a second, then he started attacking me again. I hit him again on the side of the head and he fell down holding his head. He kinda just wiggled around in pain, got up, ran back to the water and swam away.”

Officials issued a notice Friday, saying a beaver was removed from the park that day and later confirmed to be rabid. The user who wrote the post under the name time2fight-Dork66678 is asked to immediately contact the Monroe County Department of Public Health at (585) 753-5171.

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