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Grizzly Man: Death of an Idiot
Oregon Magazine ^ | Oregon Magazine | Larry Leonard

Posted on 03/03/2006 7:25:47 PM PST by WaterDragon

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To: Texas Eagle

Timothy Treadwell, who didn't, was hailed as "the bear man'.
And I wish it was satire, but it isn't.


41 posted on 03/03/2006 8:02:42 PM PST by Darksheare (..the wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45...)
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To: Texas Eagle
"Then you have the hippies. In my physical prime I watched them hang beads around their necks not as records of the hunt, but in rejection of the greatest civilization ever to exist.

They receeded into clouds of dope smoke, and enslaved entire nations by rejecting the flag, the military and this nation’s classic values. You may credit the millions of dead in Cambodia to them, the millions imprisoned and executed in post-war Vietnam, as well. The political prisons in North Korea, the executions of journalists on Cuban beaches, the slaughters and slavery in the Sudan -- it has all been part of the same package, the result of the same stupidity which was not invented but rather inflated by the sixties."

42 posted on 03/03/2006 8:03:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: digger48
Argh! The humanity!
43 posted on 03/03/2006 8:04:01 PM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: BallyBill
Until I saw this movie, I had been dismissive of those who labor to keep bears safe from hunters. But this movie changed me.

If some thoughtless hunter had shot that bear... and that bear therefore hadn't been around to eat that waste of lunch, and the rocket scientist chick with him...

... then the movie would have doubtlessly been even longer, and even more pathetic. Bear hunters of the world... stop and think of what critical function that bear you are about to shoot might serve.

There is still, for instance, college professors, lawyers, and Michael Moore.

45 posted on 03/03/2006 8:07:03 PM PST by pickrell (Old dog, new trick...sort of)
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To: Procyon
Canus

More suitable for post number 30.

46 posted on 03/03/2006 8:12:31 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: zbigreddogz

"Why is making a movie about a guy celebrating him?

He's a nut. That doesn't mean he's not facinating. "


I shared your opinion, until I watched the movie. The movie was made by his nutty sympathizers, and he seems to be a vain self absorbed nut, for whom the bears were just another prop in his journey for self-aggrandizement.


47 posted on 03/03/2006 8:25:23 PM PST by ansel12
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To: WaterDragon

He spent his life, trying to show the world how gentle Grizzly Bears really are.

He succeeded.


48 posted on 03/03/2006 8:29:23 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: WaterDragon

For those that have seen Grizzly Man in its entirety, this parody is pretty funny.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5903516284967348088


49 posted on 03/03/2006 8:29:46 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: sully777
Now you've gone and done it. Your thread is going to set off an avalanche of Helen Thomas pics.

You rang? Now, c'mere and gimme a kiss!

50 posted on 03/03/2006 8:31:24 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: WaterDragon
This article was written by a knee jerk hick.
The movie is a fascinating trainwreck. Wernor Herzog does a great job of getting getting to bottom of this this bizarre phenomenon of people who naively cross barriers between man and wild animals. Whether it's Treadwell or Siegfreid and Roy or the Crocodile guy on Animal Planet.
It's a a pretty cool movie indicting these type of folks.
51 posted on 03/03/2006 8:32:55 PM PST by Blackirish (What kind of name is Plame anyway?)
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To: Texas Eagle

It sounds like the plot of a Dick Shawn movie.
They lost me where it said he wasn't gay so he went to Alaska. There's so many women up there?


52 posted on 03/03/2006 8:34:14 PM PST by Graymatter (J31-F28-M31...why not J30-F30-M30?)
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To: WaterDragon

The Bear looked at the guy and saw either something to Fight, Fu%^ or eat.


53 posted on 03/03/2006 8:38:18 PM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: zbigreddogz

That guy was a maniac...I don't know what kind of dope he was smoking, but I can assure you that it was pretty good. I can't believe he made it that long. There is a stuffed Grizzly or Kodiak in the Anchorage airport that is mounted standing on it's back legs and the thing is over 10 feet tall. It is basically a friendly reminder to visitors that they shouldn't wander off in the fields without being aware of their surroundings. I lived in Anchorage as a kid and my dad always brought the 300 Weatherby when we went out for a picnic. One day I asked him why he always brought the gun. Well, the timing was impeccable, because at that moment, a huge Grizzly was lumbering along the treeline on the opposite side of the clearing. All my dad had to do was point in that direction and say,"That's why." I will never forget that.


54 posted on 03/03/2006 8:41:20 PM PST by willyd
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To: Texas Eagle
You don't get cute grandkids from a pile of bear crap.

True.

55 posted on 03/03/2006 8:42:53 PM PST by JavaTheHutt ( Gun Control - The difference between Lexington Green and Tienanmen Square.)
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To: WaterDragon


We want # 44 back !


56 posted on 03/03/2006 8:42:55 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: willyd

The Forest Service has issued a BEAR WARNING in the national forests for this summer. They're urging everyone to protect themselves by wearing bells and carrying pepper spray. Campers should be alert for signs of fresh bear activity, and they should be able to tell the difference between Black Bear dung and Grizzly Bear dung. Black Bear dung is small, round and sometimes has seeds or squirrel fur in it. Grizzly Bear dung has bells in it, and smells like pepper spray.


57 posted on 03/03/2006 8:43:59 PM PST by sgtyork
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To: Issaquahking
looking for about an hour with a tower of power...

Zappa fan? That's one of the funniest songs I've heard outside of Monty Python.

58 posted on 03/03/2006 8:46:02 PM PST by JavaTheHutt ( Gun Control - The difference between Lexington Green and Tienanmen Square.)
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To: digger48
I don't know why, I don't think ever a starving bear would eat THAT!...

It looks like one already did.

59 posted on 03/03/2006 8:48:19 PM PST by JavaTheHutt ( Gun Control - The difference between Lexington Green and Tienanmen Square.)
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To: WaterDragon
LMAO! Great piece.

Hie thee to a place where hippies are treated abusively, and cannot lay their blankets of socialist love over the children in the schools.

That's not too many places these days. Libs have taken over the schools. Gotta do it yerself these days.

60 posted on 03/03/2006 8:50:08 PM PST by Fruitbat
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