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.
Bears didn’t chase him, or he would have been caught and mauled.
This lad learned to run fast due to being chased by lions
in Kenya.
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.
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.
I outran a bear once.
They gave us a class on bears the first day of work for the US Forest Service. I think their advice back then was to drop and cover your neck. They said to never run from a bear.
I was clearing trail and there was a big patch of Huckleberries across the trail. I had a brush saw and strapped on my cutting chaps and pulled the starter cord on the saw.
A bear exploded out of the Huckleberries.
I dropped the saw and turned and ran screaming down the trail.
The only thing that saved me is that the bear was laughing so hard that he had to stop.
I don’t know if it was a Black or a Grizzly. My back was to him most of the time.
My coworkers all told me what they would have done (climbed a tree, taken the saw to him) but I turned and ran.
That bear probably sat at the bear club drinking a cold one and telling his bear buddies about how he scared the Huckleberries out of this guy.
Very lucky the house was only 20 yards away. He wouldn’t stand a chance with a bear in a footrace
Let’s see him do that with a fresh glazed donut in each hand
Which means they were at most walking, not charging, after him. Or bluffing. Or snoozing in the sun. Or a figment of his imagination.
One suspects that this is a tall tale (tail?), and is providing a mendacious runner with some badly needed PR ink.
Oh, and as a runner who lives in occasionally appearing black bear country, I know not to try to outrun them. In fact, everyone knows that.
Everyone.
It’s like they say: Somedays you find motivation, other days motivation finds you....
And just the other day a guy from Fish and Game was on TV saying no one can outrun a bear!
Feets don’ fail me now!
Feets don’ fail me now!
The bears were not hungry otherwise the runner would have been brought down.
Perhaps the bears have a sense of humour.
Running from a black bear is a bad plan.
Just think of the shame these bears will now be subject to.
Other bears will now go online and ridicule the slowness of this pair.
“Couldn’t even catch a scrawny human that was 20 yards away.
You are a disgrace to our species”