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A buffalo charged at and injured a staple of a St. Mary’s County neighborhood.

Dick Wildes, 83, has owned buffalo for about 43 years and says something like this has never happened.

He was transported to an area hospital with arm and leg injuries and is expected to be OK.

ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Md. - Dick Wildes says at one point, he owned about 50 buffalo, and kept up to 30 on his farm in Hollywood, St. Mary’s County.

In his entire 43-year tenure of owning buffalo, he never had an incident like he did Monday night.

What we know:

He was feeding one of his two buffalo, Indy, when the other, Dozer, charged at him.

"They said it just happened so fast, I did a cartwheel and I saw the sky in the air, next thing I knew I was on the ground," Wildes said.

Wildes suffered serious i

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