Posted on 08/16/2005 12:04:38 PM PDT by ZULU
At point blank range, with a .25 automatic pistol. In the belly.
This guy and his doper girlfriend were considered eco-fools by the wildlife community. Their actions are viewed totally harmful by wildlife professionals.
Having just returned from an Alaskan fishing trip I can tell you the locals take the bear threat seriously. We never went out fishing on the river without an armed guide. I can post a picture of a bear attack if any are interested and will provide instrution on how to do the posting of pictures.
Bears will be, well, bears.
The sounds of the bear chomping on this poor soul and his girlfriend are horrendous I heard. Does anyone know if Herzog uses these sounds in the film?
but his actions did EXACTLY the opposite.....
Treadwell did more harm than good....
don't people realize that if you want to protect wildlife, you make sure they stay wild.......
if bears would associate people and dogs with harm, they would never come near human beings and they would thus be able to live long lives.....
To bad, but once a bear has the taste for human meat you can't take a chance it won't develope a preference.
I wonder if this guy and his girl friend were vegetarians? I've been trying to collect data on my theory that bears and mountain lions seem to be attracted to herbivores over carnivores. It's based on some advice given to me from some old high country residents.
basically, what I read was he was yelling at his girlfriend to "do" something while he was being eaten......
I understand this bear whisperer gig was not his first choice. Among the other occupations he considered but did not pursue for some reason or other, were 'Shark Whisperer' and 'Nitroglycerin Juggler'.
Treadwell was a stupid man. He professed to love the bears, but his stupidity killed himself and them---two dead people and two dead bears.
Or perhaps the one that says, "I'm starving, what's for lunch?"
There's that old, well, really old joke about the time Alaska became a state. A Texan, distraught that he was no longer
a resident of the biggest state in the Union heads up North.
He was told, to become a real Alaskan, you have to drink a bottle of whiskey in one gulp, wrestle a grizzly
bear barehanded and make love to an Eskimo woman all in one night.
So, he buys a fifth of whiskey, downs it in one gulp, and then then goes to find a bear. A couple of hours later
the would-be Alaskan stumbles through the door, his clothes shredded and his body covered with cuts and bruises, and
asks, "Where's that Eskimo woman you want me to wrestle?"
This guy was killed while tent camping in a place he called the Grizzly Maze, a brushy area near a salmon run that was overrun with brownies due to some other nearby runs being slower than usual. There was no reason to kill the bear, as the area is not camped, only viewed by fly-in bear watching groups that don't typically go ashore.
Treadwell was a dope whose actions killed two wild bears that were no threat to humans. The book about it, also calle Grizzly Maze, is okay but not worth buying. I read it in about 90 minutes while sitting at Borders.
My point is that if the guy wasn't there in the first place, the bear would probably still be eating fish and berries.
I don't know what they were. It sounds like an interesting hypothesis.
This guy was killed while tent camping in a place he called the Grizzly Maze, a brushy area near a salmon run that was overrun with brownies due to some other nearby runs being slower than usual. There was no reason to kill the bear, as the area is not camped, only viewed by fly-in bear watching groups that don't typically go ashore.
Treadwell was a dope whose actions killed two wild bears that were no threat to humans. The book about it, also calle Grizzly Maze, is okay but not worth buying. I read it in about 90 minutes while sitting at Borders.
He needed one of Troy's Grizzy Suits!
SNORT!
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