'I took that footage, it lashed out at me and I was quite surprised and then it swam off into deeper water,' Karlson told CNN Friday. Lance Karlson shared the video on Instagram and wrote, The angriest octopus in Geographe Bay After going after a seagull it then decided my daughter and I deserved a lashing I later discovered its home amongst a crab graveyard, where it came after me again. Karlson posted his video on Instagram, where it has been viewed 60,000 times. Realizing the creature was, in fact, an octopus, he started filming it - just in time for the angry invertebrate to launch itself at him. He treated the wounds with Coca-Cola and is now fine. Lance Karlson was whipped by the creature and left with stinging red imprints. Instagram/Lance Karlson A man was attacked by the 'angriest octopus' off the coast of Western Australia. On March 18, 34-year-old Lance Karlson was walking on the beach and looking for somewhere to swim with his two-year-old daughter in Geographe Bay, a popular snorkeling spot about 140 miles south of Perth, when he saw what he thought was a stingray leap from the water. Based on true events, The Noriega Tapes is the ‘Narcos of Panama’ a thrilling combination of espionage, conspiracy and corruption where fact blends seamlessly with fiction. Lance Karlson was on holiday and walking along the beach in Georgraphe Bay, Western Australia when he came across a seemingly very irritated octopus. Apr 3, 2021, 5:25 AM An octopus lashed out at Lance Karlson in Geographe Bay, Western Australia. (CNN) - Considered by biologists to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates, octopuses are normally playful and inquisitive.īut an Australian geologist saw another side to the marine creatures, when one octopus defended its home in Western Australia rather aggressively. 'The octopus lashed out at us, which was a real shock,' Karlson said in emailed comments to Reuters. Considered by biologists to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates, octopuses are normally playful and inquisitive. Upon walking closer with his two-year-old daughter, he discovered it was an octopus, and took a video, which shows the animal in shallow water take a sudden strike in Karlsons direction with its tentacles.

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