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Black Bear Mauls Florida Woman, Drags Her Out of Garage
Yahoo ^ | 4-13-2014 | LIZ FIELDS

Posted on 04/13/2014 2:43:20 PM PDT by Darren McCarty

The hunt is on today for a black bear who mauled a woman at her home in an upscale central Florida neighborhood, leaving her with injuries to her face, legs and torso and requiring her to get 40 stitches to the head.

Terri Frana of Lake Mary, Fla., went to her garage Saturday evening to grab bicycles for her children to ride down to their neighbor's house when the attack happened, according to her husband, Frank Frana.

As soon as the children left, Frana, 45, saw two bears in the driveway. She walked to the patio area where there were five bears eating trash that they had pulled out of the garage, her husband said.

"The bear got up on [its] hind legs and started to maul her, opened its jaws and put her head in the mouth and dragged her towards the woods," Frank Frana said. "Somehow she was able to pull herself out."

"The bears were various sizes so we think it's probably cubs of different maturity and perhaps a mama bear," the Seminole County Sheriff's Office told ABC News.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said there was at least one bear involved in the attack but couldn't corroborate the report that there had been five bears.

Frana managed to get inside the house, said her husband. Her son found her collapsed in the living room and called 911. She was then taken to a local hospital where she was treated for at least three bear bites and several cuts all over her body.

Frana was released from the hospital Sunday morning and is recovering at home, her husband said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: animalattack; attackbears; bear; bears; bearsattack; blackbear; maul; wildlife
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To: Darren McCarty

Oh yeah. The black bear here in Florida goes about 200lbs and if it stands up on its hind legs will go between 5 & 6 feet tall.

I have had them cross the road as I have been driving by.

They by-and-large hug the woods around the populated areas.

These bears must have been really hungry.

Bears, gators and democrats are our biggest problems here in Florida.


61 posted on 04/13/2014 3:57:02 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Lots of bears in the Panhandle. My dad hit one. Fortunately, he was driving a Crown Vic, so the bear lost.
We seem them frequently when driving the “Forgotten Coast Highway” 319/98.


62 posted on 04/13/2014 3:58:46 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Darren McCarty
" I'd say that the good news is that they aren't voting in Florida,"

They better verify that. If they are not registered in Florida, someone in their name will be.

63 posted on 04/13/2014 3:59:08 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Delta Dawn
"Bears, gators and democrats" - Oh My!

A wizard of OZ quote I couldn't resist.

64 posted on 04/13/2014 4:00:58 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Darren McCarty

——Didn’t know there were bears in Florida-—

As I recall the reaalestate selling in Florida was a bear market


65 posted on 04/13/2014 4:01:42 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Between Roscommon and Grayling.


66 posted on 04/13/2014 4:02:16 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Jeff Chandler

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-ZsHf4bYmhuY7/austin_powers_international_man_of_mystery_1997_the_generals_instructions/

Almost forgot that he was also the Tholian in Star Trek TOS.


67 posted on 04/13/2014 4:06:14 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Boyne City here.........


68 posted on 04/13/2014 4:06:42 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: blackdog
A wizard of OZ quote I couldn't resist.

Yeah, I saw that lying out there, but I have been trying to bring a more reasoned and mature outlook to my posting lately. Now whared my chew get off to...
69 posted on 04/13/2014 4:21:53 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Yeah, whenever I see bears in the driveway, I always wander around the house looking for more and interrupting their mealtime instead of getting into the house and calling Fish and Wildlife. Somehow, I don’t think the family’s account is truthful. She went to the garage to get the bikes and the kids came out, probably loud like kids are, and they rode off down the driveway. Where were the bears when the kids were out there? Did they magically appear, poof!, the instant the kids rode off? She didn’t see the trash all over the garage? Sounds like she was intentionally bothering them.


70 posted on 04/13/2014 4:22:51 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Starstruck

It took me a minute...thanks. I’m still laughing!!!


71 posted on 04/13/2014 4:24:20 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: Delta Dawn
They by-and-large hug the woods around the populated areas.

that is a big bear hug

72 posted on 04/13/2014 4:25:07 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: Darren McCarty
Evacuate Lake Mary, Fla. and leave it to the bears. It's the only reasonable solution. /sarc
73 posted on 04/13/2014 4:25:21 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Darren McCarty
Black bears are the most dangerous in that they are more likely to finish off their victims. Brown Bears-Grizzly may just maul you if you are lucky, if you can call that luck. I lived in Kodiak AK for a couple of years and had a little experience with the Kodiak version. I learned much more from a well known biologist that lived there.
74 posted on 04/13/2014 4:28:12 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: bigheadfred

The bear that crossed my path was no more than a mile or so from a major thoroughfare here in Tallahassee.


75 posted on 04/13/2014 4:30:29 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Jeez! I grew up in Fla and finding a bear was like finding Bigfoot. What happened.


76 posted on 04/13/2014 4:34:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Back when I was a kid there were bears all over Yellowstone. But not anymore. I wondered where they went.


77 posted on 04/13/2014 4:36:46 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: Hot Tabasco
Well, there have been several threads about some old broad down there who has been cited many times for feeding bears, one of which had to be killed. When I first spotted this thread, I immediately thought of her......

Earlier this year the town next door to Lake Mary, Longwood, was in news because of the first ever bear attack in Florida. I believe that old lady lives in Longwood.

This whole area backs up against state forest. Lots of bears.

78 posted on 04/13/2014 4:39:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: bigheadfred

With this winter, they probably all moved to Florida...


79 posted on 04/13/2014 4:40:06 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

We hunted grizzly bears in British Columbia Canada. Our guide was a Indian who’s wife had been mauled by a grizzly. The bear covered her up with sticks, dirt and rocks and left her, probably to come back and eat her later.

The woman wasn’t dead, she waited for the bear to leave and she managed to get back to town. Her wounds were severe and it took several years before they were completely healed, according to our guide, her husband.

I am glad I don’t live in bear country.


80 posted on 04/13/2014 4:40:43 PM PDT by Ditter
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