Bear Attack!

“Hungry bear chases homeless NH man
May 26, 2009 4:45 PM ET

KEENE, N.H. (AP) - A Fish and Game officer says a hungry black bear ripped open a homeless man's tent and chased him through the woods in Keene, N.H.

Officer Josiah Towne told the Keene Sentinel the bear tore open the man's tent near Route 101 Tuesday morning and began eating raisins and other food. The man tried to fight off the bear with a shovel but ended up getting chased through the woods.

The Fish and Game officer later chased the bear into the woods. Police say the bear had been spotted earlier rummaging through bird feeders and trash cans in downtown Keene.”

“LOOK...it is obvious that the bear has fallen on hard times. The "Urban outdoorsman" was clearly benefitting from winning life's lottery in comparison to the bear.

I think the officers should have made the UO return and continue to feed, clothe and pay the bear at least a portion of his possessions.”

“Key phrase "tore open the man's tent....and began eating raisins and other food"”

“The obvious solution is to ban bird feeders and trash cans. ;-)”

“I agree Chilli.. What kind of idiot eats raisons on the trail....

'32oz”

“Apparently the bear does (LOL).”

“Perhaps if we had some sort of compassion for the homeless, the poor dumb bastard wouldn't be living in a tent.

Oh, wait, if he lived the American Dream, he could be really well off, like the Chairman of Enron or something.”

“Your so silly Chili! Why have compassion for people that cannot contribute to society? If we took all the money that goes to old people and the unfortunate, and invested it in better weapons, this country would not be so libbie silly minded.”

“Why do liberals hate the poor?”

“OH GOD...chili...did you really pull the "poor homeless who is no different from me except for the luck of the draw"?

You want to compare the numbers on the Chronically Homeless? I would be glad to because (as I suspect this guy was) you will find they are FAR from the "heroic person down on their luck" the left will portray.

Here is a group....(VERY RIGHT WING I ADMIT)

Chronic homelessness is long-term or repeated homelessness of a person with a disability. Many chronically homeless people have a serious mental illness like schizophrenia and/or alcohol or drug addiction. Most people who experience chronic homelessness have been in treatment programs, sometimes on dozens of occasions.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/section/policy/focusareas/chronic”

“I don't know the guys circumstances.

Maybe he just likes living in the woods in a tent.”

“UM sure...so what then could SOCIETY at large done for him....I mean give him a 24 BEAR GUARD.

No I think you are denying the fact that the guy was significantly better off than the poor "truly homeless" Bear who apparently had more dedication to self subsistence than the UO.”

“The bear chased the man? How the hell did he not catch him?”

“Probably a bluff charge.
This was written by a reporter.
They never get a story 100% right.”

“The man had a buddy that "he" could outrun...that was left out of the story (LOL)”

“did it say it was open fields or meadows?

xl, you're strange man. where the hell you got half the crap you typed up is puzzling. sure wasn't in the story or ant responses.”

“having been in an institution i can assure that a good sized portion of these guys DO want to live in tents out there and WOULD rather panhandle than work. they only come into the system and get clean and sober when the weather is bad. some of the guys in the hospital were on their 3rd, 4th, or more trip through the system...”

“this is like those bum fights that were popular for a while, only more gladiator style.”

“So my brother and his kids are staying for 10 days on Cape Cod, in Provincetown. I'm going out there next weekend with my wife to hang out and spend some time. I look to see if there are any special events to take my neice and nephew to. By happy coincidence, there is something called "Bear Week" sponsored by the Provincetown Bears. So I clicked the link to see if maybe look to see if there are any special events.

http://www.ptownbears.org/main.asp”

“Extra tickets for the Firemen's Ball will be sold on first-come basis at the Bear Week Info Booth.


noooooooooo comment.”

“look up Winter Solstice and tell her I said "Hi" !!!”

“LMAO Tilt! Pedxing I hope you have a ball!”

“I think I'll skip clicking on the "Bear Gallery"”

“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_re_us/us_alaska_bear_mauling

Classic scenario. Guy is lucky to be alive.”

“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38451965/ns/us_news-life/

HELENA, Mont. � At least one bear attacked three people at a campground near a national park before dawn Wednesday, killing one person and injuring two others, Montana wildlife officials said.

A male died in the attack at Yellowstone National Park near a campground that was reported about 4 a.m. local time, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said.”

“The woman is from Canada.”

“Grizzly, 2 cubs caught after MT campground mauling
By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Writer Matthew Brown, Associated Press Writer
26 mins ago

COOKE CITY, Mont. � Montana wildlife officials have captured a female grizzly and two of her three cubs in a campground near Yellowstone National Park where a man was killed and two others injured in a bear attack.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks Warden Capt. Sam Sheppard says the bear was captured in a culvert trap Wednesday evening and two of her three cubs were captured overnight.

Sheppard said Thursday that officials are confident they captured the offending bear.

Sheppard describes the attacks as highly unusual and predatory, as opposed to an attack in which a sow might be protecting her cubs from a perceived threat.

Officials have said the sow will be killed. State and federal wildlife officials will determine the fate of the cubs. Sheppard says they are unlikely to be returned to the wild.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) � A woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy campground was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead so the animal would leave her alone, she said Thursday.

At least one bear rampaged through the campground near Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday, killing a man and injuring Deb Freele of London, Ontario, and another young man.

Appearing on the network morning talk shows from a Wyoming hospital, Freele said she woke up just before the bear bit her arm.

"I screamed, he bit harder, I screamed harder, he continued to bite," she said, adding that she could hear her bones breaking.

Her survival instinct kicked in, and she realized that the screaming wasn't working.

"I told myself, play dead," she said. "I went totally limp. As soon as I went limp, I could feel his jaws get loose and then he let me go."

Freele said the bear was silent.

"This, to me, was just an absolutely freaky thing," she said. "I have to believe that the bear was not normal. It was very quiet, it never made any noise. I felt like it was hunting me."

A frequent camper, Freele said that she was already prepared hours after the attack to go camping again, though she acknowledged that it will take time to recover both physically and emotionally.

She suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms. The male survivor, thought to be a teenager, suffered puncture wounds on his calf.

The names and ages of the male victims have not been released.

On Thursday morning, it appeared a bear had triggered one of the three traps set near where the man was killed. An Associated Press reporter could hear two bears calling back and forth to one another down in the creek valley while Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees walked around the culvert trap, guns in hand.

FWP Warden Capt. Sam Sheppard declined to comment.

The bear attack was the most brazen in the Yellowstone area since the 1980s, wildlife officials said.

One camper said he heard the screams from two of the attacks early Wednesday.

Don Wilhelm, a wildlife biologist from Texas, thought the first scream was just teenagers, maybe a domestic dispute in the middle of the night. He tried to go back to sleep, stifling thoughts that a beast might be lurking outside his family's tent.

Minutes later, another scream � this one coming from the next campsite over, where a bear had torn through a tent and sunk its teeth into Freele's arm.

"First she said, "No!' Then we heard her say, 'It's a bear! I've been attacked by a bear!'" said Wilhelm's wife, Paige.

By that point, the bear already had ripped into another tent a few campsites away, chomping into the leg of a teenager who had been sleeping with his family. The solo camper who was killed was at the other end of the Soda Butte Campground.

Then, the screams stopped.

After a quick parental back-and-forth over whether to shield their 9- and 12-year-old sons with their bodies or make a break for it, the Wilhelms took advantage of the silence and darted to their SUV.

They drove around the campground, honking their horns and yelling to alert other campers. Along the way, the met with a truck leaving the campground with the teenage victim, who apparently tried in vain to fight off the bear by punching it in the nose.

"It was like a nightmare, couldn't possibly happen," Paige Wilhelm said later.

In 2008 at the same campground, a grizzly bear bit and injured a man sleeping in a tent. A young adult female grizzly was captured in a trap four days later and transported to a bear research center in Washington state.

The latest attack had residents and visitors to this national park satellite community on edge. Many were carrying bear spray, a pepper-based deterrent more commonly seen in Yellowstone's backcountry than on the streets of Cooke City.

"The suspicion among a lot of the residents is that the bear they caught (in 2008) was not the right one," said Gary Vincelette, who has a cabin in nearby Silver Gate.

Last year, another grizzly broke into three cabins in Silver Gate, said Vincelette. That bear was shot and killed by a resident when it returned to the area.

"Three attacks in three years � we haven't ever had anything like that and I've been coming up here since I was a kid," Vincelette said.

About 600 grizzly bears and hundreds of less-aggressive black bears live in the Yellowstone area.

The region is pasted with hundreds of signs warning visitors to keep food out of the bruins' reach. Experts say that bears who eat human food quickly become habituated to people, increasing the danger of an attack.

Yet in the case of the Soda Butte Campground attack, all the victims had put their food into metal food canisters installed at campsite, Sheppard said Wednesday.

"They were doing things right," Sheppard said. "It was random. I have no idea why this bear picked these three tents out of all the tents there."

The 10-acre campground in Gallatin National Forest has 27 sites.

Two other campgrounds were also closed while the attacking bear or bears remained at large.”

“from my town.

i guess they'll track and kill the bear? did this happen at a backcountry site?
it's second attack involving fishing to make the news in a fortnight.”

“The kid punched the bear in the nose...too funny..bad bad situation tho..”

“It isn't back-country.

My wife and I stayed at Soda Butte campground last year and the host told us about the 2008 attack. The guy had eaten chili for dinner and told them that he had been passing gas all night when he awoke to a bear clamping down on his shoulder through the tent. He was lucky and was able to survive that attack. True story.”

“Jaysus.

New invention for campers: fart-retaining underwear...”

“Dang Harman...It's a terrible story, and here I am eating chili for lunch, trying not to chuckle.”

“WHAT? Sorry Rosey, but cropdusting your buds on the trail...Hell thats half the fun. (LOL)”

“ALways have a John West Salmon fisherman with you.

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?n=21&ei;=utf-8&fr;=yfp-t-701&tnr;=20&p;=John+West+Salmon&vid;=0001323097719&dt;=1230956894&l;=29&turl;=http%3A%2F%2Fyts.video.search.yahoo.com%2Fimage%2F134214771&rurl;=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fswf%2Fx7wn0h&tit;=John+West++-+Red++Salmon&sigr;=115agnae7&newfp;=1&surl;=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fx7wn0h_john-west-red-salmon_fun&sigs;=12026tonk
last edited: 7/29/10 11:56:37 AM”

“LMAO!”

“As soon as that Canadian lady played dead and went limp the Grizzly loosened it`s bite and let her go. Wow.....takes alot of concentration to go limp when something`s chewing on your arm!!!!”

“�The kid punched the bear in the nose...too funny..bad bad situation tho..�
Nurse Goodbody
10:42:56 AM
7/29/10


Be careful with that humor, NG. Some peeps around here get all pissy about "humor" that offends them.”

““The kid punched the bear in the nose...too funny..bad bad situation tho..”
Nurse Goodbody

He thought the bear was a land shark.”

“stovie take your fuego elsewhere”

“Officials at Denali National Park and Preserve have announced that no charges will be brought against a man who this May shot and killed a Grizzly in the park's backcountry, the National Parks Traveler reports.


http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2010/07/man-kills-grizzly-in-denali-no-charges-filed.html”

“i should hope not. what's he supposed to do, talk the bear out of attacking him?


heres what i dont get:

The man had lawful possession of the gun�which had been illegal in that part of Denali before Congress changed the law in February�but discharging the gun and killing the bear were violations


he was allowed to carry it but not discharge it? i need a more precise reading of the law to understand that”

“heres?????”

“the correct way to mock my grammar would have been :

"heres"?

if you are quoting me, you should put quotation marks, and more than one question mark is entirely unnecessary, and actually unforgivable
last edited: 7/30/10 7:20:17 PM”

“also, its called internet shorthand.”

“I didn't see this posted anywhere on the board.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100802/ap_on_re_us/us_bear_mauling_death”

“It would really suck to be attacked by a bear.”

“Yeah, REALLY SUCK. The attack the guy lived through recently at RRG was an amazing testimony to the viciousness of these animals when they decide to go after humans. It just snapped and decided it was having human for dinner. It seems the same at Yellowstone. An underweight bear with cubs going after campers seems almost sad. We are the targets, but we're also to blame.”

“I have hiked Red River Gorge a hundred of times since I am from the big Lou. I have never seen a bear there. I carry one hell of a large knife (being a Kentuckian we are called the "Long Knives" since the days of George Rogers Clark). Anyway, I have encountered bears in other parks and never been attacked. I have been attacked by a wild bore and pretty torn up, but I did manage to cut it severely with my knife and it, thinking it was a claw (it seems), withdrew as quickly as it could go.

By the way. Don't try to shoot a bear in the head. The bullet skip off their sloped and thick skulls and exit out the skin in the back of their head. It won't faze them. If I am in Bear country I carry a 44 mag with armor piercing rounds. I would shoot for the left peck and I can get the gun out before I am bear bait.”

“he was allowed to carry it but not discharge it?

Without doing any sort of viable research, I am guessing it remains unlawful to discharge and hunt within National Parks.

Carry a gun, sure. But you can't fire it or kill anything with it.”

“I prefer not to pull a gun unless I am going to use it. I will use it if under attack from a 12ft animal with huge claws. Let the courts decide what should be done. I bet they won't do anything.”