A North Carolina FedEx worker was making a holiday delivery when she was attacked by two German shepherds and left with gruesome wounds.
On Friday, Angela Wyche was making a delivery to a house in the city of Carthage. As she approached the front door, the dogs nudged it open and came charging at her.
‘One was on my left leg, one was on my right leg and they were just biting me and biting me,’ Wyche told WRAL.
‘I was screaming, I was moving my legs. The dogs was growling and kept biting me.’
The delivery driver managed to escape and get to her truck – not before she was left with bloody injuries.
Angela Wyche, a FedEx delivery driver in North Carolina, was making her rounds when she stopped at a home in Carthage and was attacked by two German shepherds
‘One was on my left leg, one was on my right leg and they were just biting me and biting me,’ Wyche said. She was left with bloody wounds on both legs
The delivery driver was left with a $408 hospital bill after the attack. She says she is awaiting verification on whether the dogs were up-to-date on their shots
Wyche went to FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, where she was left with a whopping $408 hospital bill.
She said investigators reached out to the dog’s owner, who reported that the dogs were up-to-date on their shots. However, Wyche said she was awaiting verification.
Under North Carolina law, a dog owner can be held strictly liable for bites if their dog is considered ‘dangerous’ and if the dog injured another party or destroyed their personal property.
The statutory definition of a ‘dangerous dog’ is one that has killed or inflicted severe injury on another person without provocation.
A victim does not have to prove that the owner was negligent as long as their dog caused a ‘severe injury’ that required hospitalization or cosmetic surgery.
It is unclear whether Wyche plans to sue the dog owner.
While the FedEx driver was able to get away, albeit with gaping wounds, others have not been so lucky.
Portland boy Loyalty Charles Scott, 6, was mauled to death by two dogs in the garage of a family friend’s home earlier this month.
While Wyche was able to escape with injuries, six-year-old Portland boy Loyalty Charles Scott was mauled to death by two Great Dane-mastiff mixes earlier this month
On December 5, fire and rescue teams arrived at a home in Parkrose Heights after hearing reports of a possible animal attack.
There, they found a woman covered in blood who said she had entered the garage to take care of her Great Dane-mastiff mixes when Loyalty opened the door behind her.
The little boy had been dropped off by his grandmother earlier that morning so he could be taken to school by her friend.
Portland Police Bureau Public Information Officer Mike Benner said there had never been any calls to police regarding the animals.
However, the elementary student knew not to go around them, which is why they were in the garage.
The two dogs were euthanized in the wake of the attack.