Canada Ping!
Posted on 09/16/2014 10:38:26 AM PDT by george76
Lorna Weafer, the 36-year-old Suncor instrument technician who was mauled and killed by a black bear ... Weafer was on her way back to work from a washroom when she was attacked by a large, male black bear while working at a Suncor oilsands site north of Fort McMurray, Alta., around 2 p.m. on Wednesday. She was declared dead on the scene.
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Mike Ewald, an investigator with Alberta Fish and Wildlife, said Weafer’s co-workers tried to scare the bear off using fire extinguishers, a water cannon and air horn — “all general things that should scare it off,” Ewald noted.
Employees told him the bear would shy off for a bit, but kept coming back, eventually killing the woman.
“This bear was very determined,” Ewald said, adding that the attack lasted about an hour.
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The last fatal black bear mauling in Alberta was somewhere around 1991 in Slave Lake.”
In that incident, as 12-year-old boy was killed at a campground. Prior to that, in 1980, two oil rig workers were killed by a black bear near Zama Lake, Alta.
Attacks by grizzly bears are more common,
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Everyone has guns in Alberta, the problem is these companies won’t let us bring them to work.
They should at least have an armed guard on the property. I hope the company has their a** sued off. It’s bear country for God’s sake!
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of Predator’s Deadly Return ...
Predators from coyotes, lions, bears, and ... have returned after decades of bounty hunting had driven them far from human settlement.
Soon will get even worse.
> nobody had a gun?
Or a fire axe; or a sledge hammer or pick axe?
Each generation of predators will be less afraid of humans and attacks will increase.
Wonder how many co-workers watched the hour long attack without firing a shot [ gun free zone ? ] or grabbing a shovel, axe / some other weapons.
Those little brass dinner bells bring in hungry predators.
I did that just reading the story.
// Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear droppings.
Black bear droppings are smaller and contain lots of berries and fur.
Grizzly bear droppings have little bells in it and smell like pepper. //
Bears repeating.
Isn’t all of Canada a “gun free zone?” Mrs. Wasp and I were forced to carry cans of Home Depot’s WASP SPRAY on our trip through Canada to Alaska a couple of years ago because guns were not allowed in Canada, period!!!
Going into the bear’s terrain without a weapon is about as dangerous as walking into gang turf without a gun and with wads of cash hanging out of your pocket!!
Canada Ping!
Very sad...Had one person had access to a rifle her life could have been saved and the company should have provided that being it’s bear country.
Duh? How about "with a large bore firearm"?
Great book, just finished it. Classic study of what happens when Libs ban hunting of mountain lions. They are indeed coming back and this time they are not afriad of us.
Kanawa Bear Ping!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1670661/posts
Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death
The Record.com ^ | Jul 22, 2006 |
This lady didn’t have a dog with her like Kanawa did.
Are we in Norse country here?
12 GA. rifled slug in a Remington 870 with a 20 inch barrel. At that range, nearly foolproof. Very affordable and rugged too.
Should’ve tried some Beary Manilow music.
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