years ago when I was 14 , had just got drivers license and was driving parents buick down a gravel road ,a badger ran across the road in front of us. naturally we jumped out and stoned him to death.(you could do that back then, folks weren't such nancys)
picked him up and threw him in cars trunk to skin when we got home. when arrived home ,popped the trunk and there was one angry badger snarling at us. so we threw a rope around him and took it in the backyard and shot it with a 22.
badgers are one tough animal