Posted on 10/16/2014 1:51:37 PM PDT by marktwain
On 26 July, 2014, 57-year-old Brian D. Murphy defended himself against a charging grizzly in Glacier National Park. The case is interesting for a number of reasons. Two months after the attack, Murphy was charged with discharging a firearm in Glacier Park, a misdemeanor that carries a $500 fine. On 9 October, a motion to dismiss the charge was put forward by the U.S. Attorney's Office after Murphy's attorney said that they would raise the defense of self-defense. Judge Keith Strong granted the motion last Thursday. From missoulian.com:
The U.S. Attorneys Office has dismissed the charge against 57-year-old Brian D. Murphy.DNA samples of blood and hair taken at the scene confirmed that the bear was a grizzly. Murphy had time to ready both defenses because he had seen the bear running toward other hikers. When he yelled to warn them, the bear turned and came straight at him.
The charge was dismissed with prejudice, meaning a final determination has been made based on the merits of the case. Murphy cannot be re-charged at a later date.
Murphys attorney, Jason T. Holden of Great Falls, called it a perfect scenario to have a case dismissed with prejudice.
The hiker, who was alone at the time, was not injured. He turned over the revolver to rangers, who reported it contained five unspent rounds and one spent casing.It appears that Murphy was defending others as well as himself. He quickly retreated back down the trail.
The bear fell back and was motionless, Holden said. Murphy withdrew and double-timed it out of there, taking the two hikers who were behind him with him. He stopped everyone else on the trail, too, told the first ranger he came to what had happened, and fully and voluntarily cooperated with rangers.The bear was apparently stunned, because it had left the area by the time rangers examined the scene.
If you gave many park officials lie detectors tests, I’d bet many of them would say they’d rather have a human killed than a bear killed.
The grizzly skull is shaped like the front of a tank...unless you hit him in the eye (and even if you do, it looks like damned thick bone behind it) it looks like a round would just glance off of that forehead.
Shudder.
It does look hilarious!
then bogus charges brought two months later,
And who exactly brought forth these charges??
Have they been FIRED?, Is the asshole being forced to PAY FOR ALL COURT COSTS as a result?? Is Mr Murphy filing a Deprivation of Rights suit against the Morally bankrupt ASSHOLE??
Bear spray on a charging Grizzly? my ass.
Shoot to kill.
What idiot ranger decided to press charges?
Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
sounds it, at least he had the gun to increase his odds.
“If you gave many park officials lie detectors tests, Id bet many of them would say theyd rather have a human killed than a bear killed.”
The sorry, socialist truth is many ParkPersons are even more intellectually perverted than the above would indicate.
Dr. Earl R. Rich and I were in a meeting with a Superintendent of Everglades National Park when his hidden “ParcMan Personality” escaped. He proudly told how he had banned Dr. Harold Wanless because he had taken out of the park “mud samples”.
This uniformed ‘Stupidvisor’ had banned from Everglades National Park a noted scientist because he took mud cores - round samples of the mud layers produced by driving a hollow instrument into the mud. It is both an accepted and unavoidable mechanism in many forms of scientific research.
The outgoing tides also remove mud, and I wondered if he had considered banning outgoing tides taking “precious park property” such as mud.
This uniformed Nature Nazi literally proclaimed that if they could, Park Service would ban fishing, indeed the “consumptive use” of anything!
Interesting you mentioned the Everglades. The wife and I just visited the place the other week. Too bad we can’t tie the nutty superintendent to a Manchineel tree which is found in the Glades.
Just stumbled on another “Bear” story and surely it was posted on Free Republic but just in case:
“Man attacked by bear, shot by friend and survives
The attack comes a month after a mother grizzly killed a hiker as she defended her cubs.”
The man sounds like he is in stable condition.
Army may be called out to combat bear population in Transylvania, Romania.
Bear rescued from Dumpster in California.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/bear-cub-rescued-dumpster-26269522
Probably some sort of bear story every day, I have seen those where they remove a jar from a bear’s head. Interesting.
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