Honestly it sucks that happened to you, but using that as a reason to decide that a whole form of transport is akin to shooting an AK-47 in a dark room (or whatever it was) or beating a child is ridiculous. People get hurt every day from all kinds of vehicles and all kinds of objects.
Sometimes you can just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Thanks, I was 99% sure the feet were wrong (duck feet) but I couldn't remember the last time I saw a platypus.