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Bears Eat Wealthy Couple and Pilot After Helicopter Crash in Wilderness
newsweak ^ | 7/19/2022 | Robyn White

Posted on 07/19/2022 11:55:22 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Bears have mauled and eaten a wealthy couple and a pilot after their helicopter crashed in the Russian wilderness.

The helicopter was flown by well-known Russian biathlete Igor Malinovsky, with business people Zoya Kaygorodova and Sergey Kolesnyak on board.

On July 16, the helicopter lost communication due to bad weather, Euro Weekly News reported. The next day, the helicopter wreckage was discovered by rescuers in Kamchatka. Three hours later, remains of the trio were found near the Semyachkov Pass, just 13 kilometers from the Uzon volcano.

It is believed the corpses were dragged away, mauled and eaten by wild bears that populate the region.

Kamchatka has one of the highest densities of brown bears on the earth. An estimated 10,000 to 14,000 bears live in the Peninsula, which is about the size of California.

Bears do not usually seek out humans to eat. They usually eat plants, insects, fish, and other smaller animals. Kamchatka brown bears have access to richer food sources such as salmon, pine nuts and berries. However, bears are opportunistic hunters, meaning they take advantage of food that is readily available to them. Grizzly bears in particular, will often scavenge the remains of prey that is already dead.

Kamchatka brown bears are one of the largest bears in the world. Males can reach a weight of 1,500 pounds.

The bears may have sifted through the helicopter remains to get to the passengers, the Daily Star reported.

The couple were reportedly tourists to the area, and had been exploring the peninsula. It is unclear whether the passengers were dead before being dragged off by the predators. Bears rarely attack humans unless provoked or threatened in some way.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the crash and the deaths of the passengers, NTV reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bear; bears; brownbears; helicopter; kamchatka; nomnom; russia; thecircleoflife; wilderness
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To: one guy in new jersey

Could have been trained cyborg assassin attack bears from Mars.
Otherwise how would we know?
;-)


101 posted on 07/19/2022 2:13:34 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

One less oligarch.

CC


102 posted on 07/19/2022 2:20:31 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: max americana

Is that you in the bath house with Putin? You seem kind of fixated on Ukraine surrendering, and your own pornographic gay fantasies.


103 posted on 07/19/2022 2:21:19 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Vs a zelensky ass kisser like yourself. Hey, tell your fag leader to surrender already!


104 posted on 07/19/2022 2:23:57 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: max americana

Like I said, your mind is consumed with pornographic homosexual thoughts. That’s OK, there is a porn hub channel for that. Provincetown is nice in the summer, as is Fire Island and San Francisco.


105 posted on 07/19/2022 2:26:37 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

EAT THE RICH!


106 posted on 07/19/2022 2:28:20 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: freeandfreezing

How do you know these places? Wow, dont tell me. They’re your favorite hangouts right Zelensky boot licker?


107 posted on 07/19/2022 2:28:41 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: Lazamataz

Eez life.

Sometimes you eat bear. Sometimes bear eat you.


108 posted on 07/19/2022 2:31:47 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Bears rarely attack humans unless provoked or threatened in some way.

We love people.

Especially the tasty snack sized ones.

109 posted on 07/19/2022 2:35:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

This story is unbearable, down right grizzly.


110 posted on 07/19/2022 2:41:16 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

...they was hangry


111 posted on 07/19/2022 2:57:38 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns ( When you are going through hell keep goinge at Soc Sec Admin , too- dont discount it)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

They ate a biathlete ?

He should have been able to outrun the pilot and the other passenger...


112 posted on 07/19/2022 3:17:05 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: jerod

113 posted on 07/19/2022 3:22:34 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

“Bears rarely attack humans unless”...they’re dropped from the sky, in the middle of the Russian wilderness.


114 posted on 07/19/2022 3:22:38 PM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Did either man have a firearm on him?
Both were deer hunting and armed with rifles. The one who died was sitting on the edge of a muskeg blowing his deer call and was hit from behind by a huge boar and had no chance. The force drove his rifle deep into the soft ground. He was mostly eaten except for his head, some fishermen from Petersburg tracked and killed the bear two days after the attack. His remains were inside the bruin.
The man who survived had his firearm slung over his shoulder and was blindsided with no warning, mauled and scalped. He played dead and the bear left. Likely a sow protecting her cubs but he didn't see them. He had no time to use his weapon.
115 posted on 07/19/2022 3:26:42 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Louis XVI of France and I share a common ancestor, but I still have my head.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

DoorDash?


116 posted on 07/19/2022 3:28:50 PM PDT by rivercat
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To: kiryandil

Love it!


117 posted on 07/19/2022 3:32:38 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Did the bears call GrubHub for delivery?


118 posted on 07/19/2022 3:33:14 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: max americana
How do you know these places?

LOL, the feigned ignorance of a guy in the closet. Just come out and admit it, what you fantasize about is who you really are. Everybody in the USA knows the reputation of those places. Maybe not every Russian, but any American would know.

119 posted on 07/19/2022 3:39:48 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Vendome

If the athlete is bi then the bears might have bear pox. Fauci approves.


120 posted on 07/19/2022 3:46:56 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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