Posted on 07/28/2010 5:46:24 PM PDT by SJackson
1 dead, 2 injured in bear attack at MT campground
At least one bear rampaged through a heavily occupied campground Wednesday near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night, killing one person and injuring two others during a terrifying attack that forced people to hide in their cars as an animal tore through tents.
Authorities said three separate attacks left a male dead and a woman and another male injured at the Soda Butte campground. The woman suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms, and the surviving male was bitten on his calf.
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Bear gets into home, eats and grabs stuffed bear (AP) – 5 hours ago
LACONIA, N.H. — A black bear walked into a New Hampshire house through an open door, ate two pears and a bunch of grapes, took a drink from the family fishbowl and grabbed a stuffed bear on its way out the door. Mary Beth Parkinson said the bear apparently took advantage of the open outside door to get into her kitchen
>They advise people to wear noise-producing devices such as
>little bells on their clothing
...which may help avoid a defensive attack by a bear by warning it...but in the case of a predatory attack make you easier to find.
Sorry, but all data produced by Agency bureauscientists is suspect. “Agenda Uner Alles” is the dominant paradigm in Agency labs, after all.
Down in the Everglades, the rangerette in charge of teh Florida Panther Program, and the rest of her five AgencyPerson team wrote in the capture report that a female cougar had been fitted with a radio collar.
A veterinarian, Dr. Blankenship, signed the capture report.
The cat was described as “non-lactating” - probably because it was a male.
The AgencyPersons could not comprehend what those sacks under the tail of that cat were.
For all we know, those AgencyPersons might have thought those nuts were what held the tail on that cat.
;-(
Gunpowder, applied by the citizen as they see fit, works.
When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.
“Agenda Uner Alles” should be “Agenda Uber Alles”.
Sorry.
Uh, no thanks. That would hurt the shooter more than the shootee.
“Id pay GOOD MONEY to see anyone shoot that!!”
That is easy to arrange. Take a jihaddi whacko to the range and tell him that .50 BMG pistol is the best handgun for shooting members of “The Zionist Entity”, but it takes a man to handle it.
Yeah, I know that being a Palisimian raises taxonomic issues I glossed over, but cut me a bit of scientific slack. It is for a good cause (and a great video).
Betcha good money the IDF would pay for a tape of that attempt. Nothing like watching the other whackos trying to pull the barrel out of the shooters sloping forehead after the recoil does its thing.
;-)
I read that grizzlies usually attack until the prey is still. Usually a defensive attack. Then the bear wanders off.
Although black bears attack less often, when they do they don’t stop.
Laying still doesn’t work, they are going to kill and eat you.
The folks who did that study had a PC interest in the outcome...
“Damn,sounds like a scene from that Grizzly movie about 20 years ago.”
Dude. 30+ years ago. Groan.
Re Dan B Cooper's study, for what it's worth, I've heard anecdotes about the effectiveness of spray (keep it fresh), including one where it drove off a grizzly with four rounds of .44 mag in it. Takes a well placed shot to bring them down quickly. Spray or firearm, a bear wandering around your tent, especially in a campground, is a problem. It happens frequently, you can't just open fire. And if they attack you in the tent, it's a lot of mayhem, and no clear, effective line of sight for firearm or spray. I keep both around, but I'd prefer not to ever have to use either, especially in this circumstance. I'm assuming this was an attack in a tent, but who knows, people do all sorts of things at 4am
I spent all last week backpacking in the Smoky Mountains. At one backcountry campsite, I was off in the woods taking care of some business involving a cathole and an orange shovel, I was looking around and discovered that I was apparently adding a human dimension to an obvious bear bathroom. There were four large black piles of bear poop within eyesight.
Yes, I’m told they do it in the woods :>)
Actually, the first pile I saw a few days earlier was on the road, so they don’t always do it in the woods.
Lots of campers in Yellowstone think it is Jellystone Park and that the bears are nice. Surprise!
disagree,, I sleep with the 12ga, I can open fire...
RIP.
Grizzlies have eaten a number of people. And, a blackie ate a baby left out of sight at an orthodox Jewish summer cabin community in the Catskills.
Meat is meat to a hungry predator.
When a bear is so acclimated to humans that it wanders around a campground, that bear needs killing. Getting a clear shot a bear under such circumstances is a bit of a challenge but hardly an insurmountable one.
Once the predatory attack begins, only thousands of foot pounds applies in the right area cures bad bruin behavior.
One thing that should worry all - discharging a firearm in a tent will do damage to ones ears, possibly permanent damage. However, bear bites are worse.
I’d suggest keeping one’s handgun on a lanyard, so that in the event a feeding attack, or any other attack does occur, that one’s gun is always at hand. Being dragged around by a bear can cause one to drop a gun or have difficulty finding it. The lanyard assures that ones gun is always at hand.
IIRC, they don't allow it in Glacier.
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