A friend and myself were in the squirrel woods on a drizzling day steady light drizzle, so we both donned rain coats, the type with hoods but the rain wasn't heavy enough to keep the hood up and besides we were both wearing baseball caps.
Mike is standing about 50 yds from me and I see him raise his .22 pump rifle and take a shot almost straight up, as I scan up to see if he connected the squirrel was on the way down in the oh so fimilar tail spinning drop. It hit right in folded down hood of his rain coat, and I thought to my self man thats neat don't even half to go look for it.
Then came the same blood curdling scream the previous author described, and Mike went into convulsions dropping the rifle and grabbing at the back of his head with both hands flailing widly, then backs up to the nearest tree and starts beating the back of his head against the trunk, kinda like he was trying to beat his brains out . That didn't seem to calm the wild beserker, and he started ripping at the front of the rain coat and finally pulled it over his head. Not finished yet he takes the folded up rain coat and starts a beating out the wildfire routine.
By the time I make it over to him I figured out all the commotion was to rid himself of the little buck toothed demon that was chewing on the back of his head. The raincoat hood had made a nice little platform from which he administered the damage to the head and neck area.
The rodent was dead from the pounding Mike had given him,and was taken to the emergency room along with Mike to be tested for rabies, which he found out two days later, turned out to be negative. A good cleaning of the vampire like punctures from the little Dracula was all that was needed to get Mike back in shape .
I just wish that I could have filmed the convulsions!