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Professional runner outruns 2 bears while training in woods [Auburn ME]
Associated Press ^
| Jul. 6, 2017 4:29 PM ET
Posted on 07/06/2017 8:25:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:25:59 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Bear to other bear: I just have to outrun you!
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:30:45 PM PDT
by
golux
To: Olog-hai
I do not think so, unless you can run 25 plus miles an hour. Wants what he just got, publicity.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:31:35 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(Mucor roxii is not a rock band.)
To: Olog-hai
Sometimes you eat the bear.
Sometimes the bear eats you.
And every so often, the bear chases you up onto a screened-in porch which is lucky because the stupid bear doesn’t know the difference between siding and screens.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:33:04 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Olog-hai
Bears didn’t chase him, or he would have been caught and mauled.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:35:29 PM PDT
by
zek157
To: Fungi
He had a 20 yard head start. He had to go 20 and they had to go 40 to catch him.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:36:41 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
To: doug from upland
He’ll probably win The Boston Marathon next year———I don’t even go anymore,Americans haven’t won in years——it’s always Africans these days.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:38:45 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: blueunicorn6
Bears break into cabins all the time when they want in. There are no snowflake pajama bears. They get in when they want to.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:39:19 PM PDT
by
zek157
To: Olog-hai
This lad learned to run fast due to being chased by lions
in Kenya.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:40:20 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2017!)
To: Fungi
Certainly not at 20 yards (60 feet) from a standing start.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:40:32 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: TaMoDee
Lions are faster than black bears. Some lions can hit 50 mph.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:41:28 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: zek157
I believe my Mom told me I had bears on my pajamas when I was little.
Or maybe it was that I was bare and didn’t have pajamas.
Mom drinks a lot.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:44:25 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: doug from upland
Come on, don’t be ridiculous as the author of this piece. The bears didn’t chase hin and the hikers did not reach the safety of a f’ing screen porch. They were very lucky the bears didn’t chase and maul them. Running was the worse thing they could have done in this case, but fortunately it worked out for them.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:44:41 PM PDT
by
zek157
To: Olog-hai
Bears are faster in the quarter mile.
Their gearing is set up for longer drag races.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:46:44 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: zek157
according to the website - 50ft/sec is within reality for a bear to cover - lets round it down to 15yd/sec - that would be less than a 3 second run (40 yards) for a determined bear (let alone 2)
http://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/dispelling-myths/
maybe the runner was inspired and coud do 10yd/sec - after all, that only a 100yd dash in 10 sec - anyone can do that!
it’s an AP story - more fake news?
To: Olog-hai
That’s why he out ran a black bear. Anyway you look at it: “He be fast”.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:50:33 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2017!)
To: Olog-hai
Those Maine bears think they’ll catch a Kenyan runner? He spends his whole life running from lions, mambas, crocs that explode out of the water, Idi Amins cook, hutus with machetes. He’s like a stunt man with Olympic speed and endurance. When he got hungry he had to chase an antelope on foot till it dropped dead from exhaustion.
Those chubby northern berry fed bears were WAY outta their league. I bet they are still discussing “wtf WAS that thing anyway?”
That’s the way humans USED to be bro.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:50:51 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: Olog-hai
Professional runner? He says?
Hard to believe one can make a living running..Personally I’m just not impressed by someone running. But It looks like it came in handy here. That is, if you believe it even happened.
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posted on
07/06/2017 8:53:46 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
"...make a living running..."
Some athletes make a living running.
Others pay their bills batting a ball, tossing one through a hoop, smacking a puck, or pedaling their bicycles.
All sorts of ways for true top-notch athletes to make a paycheck.
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posted on
07/06/2017 9:00:06 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Olog-hai
I've often thought that running performance may be improved by being chased by wild animals. The
Marathon in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics featured a South African runner who was chased by a pack of wild dogs. The coward left the course or we'd have had a record. The guy who did win, originally, was found out to have done 11 miles or so in an automobile. Now that's my kind of a marathon!
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