12th October 2011

This one made me laugh, nice to have a lighthearted story now and again.....

‘Buck Norris’ an internet sensation

A KwaZulu-Natal mountain biker became an internet sensation after a video of him being pounced on by charging hartebees received nearly five million views on YouTube, since it was posted there on Monday.

Evan van der Spuy, 17, was taking part in a mountain bike race near Pietermaritzburg on Sunday when the 150kg hartebees tried to jump over him.

“It was a freak accident. I knew the buckhad rushed up to me, but I can't remember what happened after that,” Beeld newspaper quoted him saying on Wednesday.

Van der Spuy's teammate, Travis Walker, was behind him, filming with a camera mounted on his handlebars, when the hartebees jumped.

The video was broadcast in the United States through ABC and CNN news, and was posted on the Huffington Post website. In Britain, it made The Telegraph website. The Mirror tweeted a link to the video with a hashtag calling Van der Spuy “Buck Norris”.