congrats @elements5 for the win.
My once close encounter was with a porcupine when I was a kid. The family and I were out camping and decided to walk to the fire tower where we were camping at and there were 2 porcupines hanging out. Well you know kids we wanted to walk up the fire tower even though the porcupine were hanging out. Well needless to say the porcupine got spooked and shot. Likely no one got hit but we decided then it was not a good time to go up the fire tower.