Posted on 05/09/2024 1:44:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Her experience brings new meaning to the "bear vs. man" question.
While social media users debate if they’d rather be left alone in the woods with a bear or a man, one woman is considering herself “lucky” after surviving a real bear attack.
A Scottish tourist was mauled by a bear in Romania.
Friends Moira Gallacher and Charmian Widdowson were visiting the Carpathian Mountains when they encountered a group of bears, according to Scottish news outlet STV.
Widdowson said, “We saw these bears — a mummy bear and a baby — they were gorgeous.”
What the women didn’t know was that trying to take pictures with the bears would lead to an almost deadly situation.
“We were in the car, and we were going to take a picture,” Gallacher stated. “And the bear came up to the window.”
As the women were driving through the mountains, they found a safe spot to pull off the road and stop. Once they did, they tried to take pictures with the bears.
“So I went down the window to take a good picture. I thought he wanted to be friends,” Widdowson said.
Unfortunately, the bear wanted anything but.
“The bear came and wanted to get into the car, but he started getting into the car and bit my friend,” she explained.
Widdowson is convinced that the bear attacked her friend because they were talking about food.
“My friend said, let’s get something to eat … And I think he heard it and decided he had to eat my friend instead,” she said.
Gallacher, who is recovering at a local Romanian hospital, said she credits her survival to the “thick, padded” jacket she was wearing.
STV noted that Romania has “Europe’s largest population of European brown bears.”
The National Park Service said “bear attacks are rare.”
According to the National Park Service, bear attacks do not occur frequently. In fact, “most bears do not want to attack you; they usually just want to be left alone.”
Bears do not typically attack unless they’re provoked or made to feel unsafe themselves.
Perhaps this explains why so many women would rather be stuck in the woods with a bear than with a man.
The question has been circulating around social media: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man?
Most women have said they would rather be alone with a bear in the woods.
Bears are more predictable. They don’t tend to randomly attack. Men, on the other hand, do.
This attack may give people some pause. Bears may not be as docile as it was assumed. However, they still have less terrible tools at their disposal than men do. As one woman said in a TikTok comment, “The worst a bear can do is kill me.”
Despite having a run-in with a bear, Gallacher is still better off than she would be with many men.
Gallacher is certainly not blessed to have been attacked by a bear, although she is fortunate it wasn’t worse. She only sustained injuries to her arm.
While this incident was undoubtedly terrifying for the pair of friends, they were still better off than many women after encountering a strange man.
According to RAINN, “Every 68 seconds, another American is sexually assaulted.” One in six women has been attacked by something much worse than a bear.
Gallacher’s experience with this bear is a sobering reminder that some of the things that scare us are worse than others, and what seems like the worst-case scenario to society as a whole isn’t always really the worst thing that can happen.
LOL--What the ...?
That came out of nowhere.
As humans get farther and farther away from nature, they push further into a fantasy world of their own creation made worse by television and movies.
If it’s a mama bear and her cub, take pictures through the windows and keep driving.
I don’t know how she’s survived prior to meeting the bear….🙄
Hey Yogi an all you can eat picnic basket with wheels.
Those rank high in the Famous Last Words list.
My mom still tells the story of camping at Yosemite with her family in the 50s. A big grizzly bear came strolling towards their campsite and my mom and her brother picked up the lit charcoal grill with burger patties and set it inside the camper and then got in the cab. As the bear went past, there were five little kids following it like it was a parade.
BTTT!!!!
We used to go to Yellowstone to see the natural features obv incl the animals.
These days the idiot tourists are as much an attraction as anything else.
“The world would be a better place if more stupid people were eaten by bears.”
Or we could remove warning labels from everything.
In a decade or less, the “stupid people” problem would take care of itself.
Same mentality wants Palestinians settled in USA.
I really thought this was going to be a Babylon Bee story.
Can’t fix stupid.
Shocking! Unexpected! Drink!
Same.
There ain’t no cure for stupid. 🙄
I am amazed anyone could be this stupid. It explains however the ability the Democrats have to hoodwink such a large population of people.
This woman is just an idiot.
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