Posted on 03/28/2012 11:07:37 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A Paradise man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a mountain lion Monday morning.
Robert Biggs, 69, often hikes in the Bean Soup Flat area, which is about a mile and a half above Whisky Flats. He came across a mother bear, a yearling and a newborn, which were about 40 feet from where he was standing.
After watching the bear family for a few minutes he decided to leave them be and turned to walk back up the trail. As he turned, a mountain lion pounced on him grabbing hold of his backpack with all four paws.
"They usually grab hold of your head with all four paws, but my backpack was up above my head and (the mountain lion) grabbed it instead," Biggs said. "It must have been stalking the little bear, but it was on me in seconds."
He wrestled with the cat, striking it in the head with a rock pick. The cat screamed when it was hit with the pick, but didn't let go, Biggs said. Before he knew it, the mother bear came from behind and pounced on the cat, tearing its grip from the backpack.
The bear and the cat battled for about 15 seconds, Biggs said, until the cat finally ran away. The bear went on its way as well. Biggs ended up with bite marks, scratches and bruises to his arm, but was otherwise uninjured.
(Excerpt) Read more at paradisepost.com ...
... and a big brown streak in his wet drawers.
Was his name grizzly Adams?
He’s bearly lucky to be alive.
My headline: “Bear Uses Man as Bait to Catch Lion” Smarter than the average bear.
When a bear saves you from a cougar, you can pretty well figure it was not your time to go.
All this tory needs it a tiger, and connection to George Takei and a meme would be born... (lion, tiger, bear, oh my...)
Just finished reading Paradise Lost by J. A. Jance. Her stories are great, but fiction. This story beats all!
Since when does a bear let a may play with its cub? I agree with the comments after the story. It is a phony!
NEXT:
Wow, what a story!
Lions tigers and bears; oh my!
Lucky for him it wasn’t a 50’ish cougar desperate for relations.
And he's not lion!
Bean soup flat and Whiskey flat?
Sounds like someone (the lion) was preparing dinner.
So maybe the lion was getting ready for the main course.
he played “Patty Cake” with the cub?
Load of crap.
The story was fine without his embellishment.
Reminds me of the day I met Michelle Obama.
I’d wager that the author left out the part about “I had just found some really groovy mushrooms...”
I wonder if he’s lion about that bear saving him? LOL!
Robert Biggs was drinking WHISKEY while hiking in the Beean Soup Flats area...
Fixed it..
He played patty cake with a bear cub? If true, I wonder if he’s related to Timothy Treadwell.
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