"Grizzly Man" Movie Spurs New Looks at a Grisly Death

National Geographis ^ | August 12, 2005 | James Owen

[ZULU]

"..Yellowstone, Glacier, Jasper, and Banff have been forced to hire extra rangers to keep bear-friendly visitors back. "

Too bad. They're interfering with natural selection and the awarding of more Darwin Awards. Grizzly bears CAN improve the gene pool by eliminating stupid genes and liberal genes.

Me, I wouldn't get closer than 100 yeards to a grizz. That's when my rifle is dead on.

[StrangerInParadise]

This former idiot...now a piece of bear $hi+ somewhere...deserved what he got. As Bugs Bunny would say, whatta maroon!!!

[flashbunny]

A tiger is a tiger.

A bear is a bear.

A liberal is an idiot.

[MplsSteve]

The guy was a freakin' idiot. People like that get the idea in their heads that they can really commune with wild animals. He died for that mistake.

That doesn't mean that he deserved it.

[Abathar]

I feel about the same about him as I do when I read about a guy who died when their parachute didn't open and he splashed himself in a cornfield. Why anyone would have sympathy for this moron is beyond me.

[darkwing104]

Doh!

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[RexBeach]

Well, I guess ending up as some bear's dinner is better than a bad trip? Or is it?

[7thson]

Yes he did. If you are walking down the street and get mugged, you probably did not deserve it. If you go into the heart of crime alley in any big city and attempt to interact with the animals there, you deserve what you get.

[hombre_sincero]

this useful idiot is in the same ballpark as the stupid girl laying down in front of the bulldozer.

Good for a chuckle anyway! Definitely not worth a second thought.

[Safetgiver]

Wanted to be a bear whisperer and ended up a bear fart.

[Bigoleelephant]

What irks the hell out of me is that they killed the bear.

This moron goes into their habitat and gets eaten, so they kill the bear. WTF? If the guy had never been there the bear would have been fine. The bear is doing what thousands of years of evolution has taught him to do. Stay alive.

I hear the salmon runs were very slow this year. This bear found an alternative food source and used it. It almost seems like people don't realize these are wild animals not the singing Baloo's we see in Disney movies that have feelings and tell jokes.

[conservativeharleyguy]

I went to see Ron "Tater Salad" White last weekend.

One of his new jokes was: Wouldn't it be funny if this guy's father had told him all his life that "you'll never be sh**".

Brought down the house.

[Sax]

I tell you Boo Boo, he just kept coming around, and coming around. You know buggin' me. We'll I'd just had it. Now let's go get some pin-a-nic baskets!

[bboop]

Didn't he live in Malibu?

[Finny]

Wanted to be a bear whisperer and ended up a bear fart.

Oh, man ... that's cold! (And pretty funny)

[TheBigB]

Yogi bump! ;o)

[Niteranger68]

"Experts say Treadwell was an example of how not to behave around these animals."

It took a f---ing expert to figure that out?

[hombre_sincero]

I knew I could find a copy of that smilie that was posted on here a couple years ago!
bulldozer3.gif ( 164k pic ) Now if someone has a bear attack smilie to add to the collection .....

[gridlock]

Bartlebaugh says Treadwell's decision to ignore this advice was influenced by his aim to become known as a "bear whisperer."

Something tells me he wasn't whispering at the end there. Probably wound up as a "bear screaming-his-head-off-er"...