HONOLULU -- A Colorado man attacked by a shark in Hawaii earlier this week had earlier encounters with a bear and rattlesnake, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

Dylan McWilliams, 20 of Grand Junction, was bitten by a shark Thursday while swimming off the island of Kauai.

This was not McWilliams' first painful bite from a wild animal. In fact, it was his third.

In July, he was attacked by a bear in Colorado.

The bear bit his skull, grabbed his head and dragged him about 12 feet from where he was sleeping. 

The Star-Advertiser reported McWilliams was also bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking in Utah about 3 1/2 years ago.

Full story here.

I don’t know what this guy did to the animal kingdom but it must be terrible. This is my new prime example for everybody who’s said “you have a better chance at being struck by lightning than being attacked by…” THIS GUY’S BEEN ATTACKED BY EVERYTHING. I mean there's a legitimate possibility  that there’s a wanted poster somewhere out in animal land with this guy’s mug on it.

 I’m impressed this dude even set foot in an ocean. He has the worst experiences outside! It sounds like he has a fucking terrible time! Tries to go hiking, gets bitten by a rattlesnake. Tries to go camping, gets mauled by a bear. Tries to go surfing, gets bitten by a shark. My guy, you've got an animal attack problem. You've tried all of the climates and none of them have worked out for you.

That’s three times in, what, three or four years? I know I’m biased because i live in New York City, aka the concrete bunghole, so I’ve been outside maybe three times in that same period of time - but your ratio for animal attacks is way off. If you’re averaging one animal attack every 1-3 years you should just stay inside. I’m not kidding, the reward just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the effort.

It begs the question though, once you survive one animal attack, does it become less scary? If that’s the case then I need to be attacked by an animal STAT. I’d prefer not an insect or a snake, so maybe like a small dog? Only problem with that is I don’t know if I have it in me to fight a dog. How about a feral cat? I could deal with a feral cat. Feral cats are asking to get fought. I’d survive that attack no problem and then be much braver.

I feel like I need much more information before I commit, but I’m feeling good about this. If anybody has this guy’s information, please pass it along. For a blog that spends the majority of time worrying about animal attacks, the writers are lacking an enormous amount of experience in being attacked by anything.