"Villagers armed with axes and knives cornered the animal Monday night, but failed to kill it, prompting rumors that witchcraft was involved."

Good thing they aren't in England, what with the knives and such. They would all be locked up.

One rabid hyena had hundreds of frightened villagers cowering in fear? Please pardon my insensitivity here, but are all the men in that village wearing dresses or something?

Perhaps it would have been helpful if at least a couple of these people had been armed with big, scary guns instead of knives and axes. Of course, the prospect of such a frightening scene would have had the "journalists" huddling together and crying for help too.

One villager with a shotgun could have finished it in a few minutes. But if you aren't allowed guns or any other distance weapons, would you want to get close enough to a rabid animal to use an axe or knife on it? If you can knife it, it can bite you. You do remember how rabies is transmitted, right. And you do realize that, while in America the treatment usually works and is not quite as bad as dying of the disease, it probably costs more than a whole African village's annual income.

You might mildly criticize the men that got bit anyway for not dying like a man - facing the beast and plunging their knife in to the hilt - but Roger is out of line.