Posted on 06/22/2010 3:39:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Some guys have all the luck.
And then there's Rick Oliver, who might be one of the unluckiest men in the state, if not the world.
Oliver was mauled by a bear in his otherwise peaceful front yard a few weeks ago.
"It was like getting struck by lightning," he said.
Turns out, Oliver might be one of the few people in the world capable of accurately making the bear-lightning analogy.
And for Oliver, 51, the two incidents seem to go hand in hand.
Ever since he was struck by lightning in 2006, Oliver says, he's had trouble sleeping.
On restless nights, he tends to piddle about his farm, checking on his chickens, working on his tractors and, as he was in the wee hours of June 3, fixing up his Chevy Malibu.
About 2 a.m., he heard a distant rustling on his 17-acre spread, which is off Yates Mill Pond Road in an unincorporated sliver of Wake County between Cary and Raleigh.
As he turned to investigate, he was dealt a heavy blow. "I heard this strange huffing," Oliver said. "And the next thing I know I had been run over and stepped on by a bear."
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LOL
Wasn’t there a Dan Ackroyd/John Candy movie where this happened?
The author says that he’s unlucky because so few people have been struck by lightning and mauled by a bear. I’d say he’s lucky because so few have survived both. In fact, one would suggest that one of the reasons there are so few such instances of people suffering both calamities is that one of those calamities will do you in.
About the only thing this guy didn’t do is walk around with a slab of bacon on his back to get attacked by this bear!lol
I just hate it when that happens!
Uncle Buck.
We’ve had a black bear visiting our yard over the last few years. It keeps taking out our bird feeder.
“The Great Outdoors” had the guy who had been hit repeatedly by lightning, and John Candy got run over by the bear.
no, it was ‘the great outdoors’.
I never would have imagined there would be bears down in the flat lands where this guy was attacked. I wonder if there are many bears in that area.
Obviously, the man was having a really bad day.
Note to self: stay as far away from this man as possible. NC—>CA seems a safe distance away.
This is just down the road from me. Yikes!
Deosn’t seem too hard to figure out - the bear likes his food well done.
Compare that to the 141 people who were killed by dogs during the same period, and you get the idea.
I'm surprised to learn that about 28 people per year are killed by dogs in the U.S. Seems high.
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