Often when there is an accident on the side of the road, traffic can be backed up just because drivers passing by slow down to see what has happened. It’s not much different when something crazy is happening on the side of the road.

In this video that has spread like wildfire virally, two combatants get into a wild brawl on the side of the road and it’s all caught on film by a passerby.

One of the driver’s in the car wrote a poignant description of the enemy combatants:

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly… Irresistible impulses seized him. he would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring on his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, though the forest aisles.

source: goodreads.com

Ok so maybe the text isn’t actually about the two groundhogs fighting in the video. The words are from Jack London’s ‘Call of the Wild’ but add some context to the ferocity of animals fighting in the wild.

Luckily for these two groundhogs, neither seemed to be seriously injured from the fight.