[VIDEO] Man Left Wreathing In Pain As Angry Octopus Strikes At His Neck

A man was attacked by the "angriest octopus in Geographe Bay" in Western Australia.

Lance Karlson was walking along the beach at Geographe Bay with his two-year-old daughter when he spotted the tentacles of an octopus lashing out at a seagull in the water. With an attempt to take a closer look at it, Karlson walked towards it and took a video of the octopus. Then it whipped its tentacles at them.

He shared the jaw-dropping moment on Instagram.

"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!" he captioned the video.

Karlson told 9News.com.au that he was looking at the shells when the octopus struck him on the arm and connected to the back of his neck.

"My goggles were too fogged to see what had happened and I swam back to shore in pain," Karlson said.

"The imprints of the tentacles quickly formed raised marks across my skin," he added.

After the attack, the author and former surf lifesaver instructed his wife to pour Coke over the wound.

"There was some stinging, but after being a life saver for some years I've been stung by blue bottles and it was not anything like that," Karlson said.

"It was more the pain from the physical strike of the octopus," he added.

In other news, a fox recently attacked a woman in Brunswick mobile home park before getting killed by a neighbor, the Times Record reported.

While the woman, Kimberly Bashant, escaped injury, a neighbor killed the animal with a baseball bat on Valerie Avenue in the Bay Bridge Estate mobile home park.

Bashant said she’s often seen wild animals on her property.

“I’ve always kept a bat out there by my chair just in case an animal or someone came up and attacked me. I never thought it would actually happen," she said.

Bashant said she was on her deck smoking when she heard the animal. She quickly grabbed the bat, but the fox managed to bite her on the leg.

“I started beating him with the bat. It’s awful. I mean, I’m an animal lover but I had to do what I had to do," Bashant said.

She screamed for help while fighting the fox. Her neighbors, including Kelly Pinette, then came to help her.

As for her injuries, she said, “I cannot believe he did not break the skin. There was no scratch. I was so lucky so I didn’t have to get any rabies shot."