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Hikers woken by screams during Labrador polar bear attack ( Canada )
CBC News ^
| Aug 17, 2013
Posted on 08/17/2013 7:23:16 AM PDT by george76
Maine man badly injured in Torngat Mountains National Park.
A U.S. hiker vividly recalls the night one of his fellow campers was pulled from his tent and attacked by a polar bear in Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador.
Matt Dyer, a lawyer from Maine, was badly injured during the attack at around 1:30 a.m. AT on July 24.
Richard Eisenberg was with Dyer and six other hikers as part of a Sierra Club hiking trip to the remote park.
He said the group woke up to the sounds of Dyer screaming as he was dragged from his tent.
"He only screamed twice, and I saw the bear dragging the tent and then pulling Matt out of the tent and carrying him off," Eisenberg told CBS News.
The bear ripped through the electric fence the group had set up around their campsite that night.
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Parks Canada strongly advises visitors to hire an armed bear guard during their stay, but it is not mandatory.
The Inuit bear guards are hired through the Nunatsiavut base camp set up within the park.
However, Castaneda-Mendez said his group was never offered the armed bear guard. He said his group was under the impression the portable electric fence was an adequate deterrent.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; attack; bear; bearattack; bearattacks; bears; canada; elf; labrador; maine; peta; petaelf; polarbear; polarbearattack; polarbearattacks; polarbears; sierraclub; timothytreadwell; treadwell
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:23:16 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
By the title I though a polar bear and a Labrador got into a fight.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:25:33 AM PDT
by
mware
To: george76
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:25:55 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
To: jazusamo; Flycatcher; Squawk 8888; girlangler; LucyT; proud_yank; GladesGuru; AuntB
Forgot their little brass bells ?
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:26:25 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Getting dragged off by a polar bear. I’m surprised he survived.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:27:06 AM PDT
by
mware
To: george76
“part of a Sierra Club hiking trip to the remote park. “
No pity.
Especially they built an electric fence and destroyed pristine cryptobiotic arctic soil diversity.
To: george76
But I thought Nature was all Bambi and Thumper ...
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:29:29 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: george76
This is what can happen when you voluntarily give up your spot at the top of the food chain.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:29:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: IronJack
Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend at the time, Amy Huguenard, also thought Nature was all Bambi and Thumper.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:33:05 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: dfwgator
Does he taste like chicken?
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:34:32 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: george76
The Sierra Club is worried about not enough polar bears. The polar bears are worried about not enough Sierra Club hikers.
To: george76
Are they sure it was a bear? Perhaps this was an Inuit bear guard, dressed in a bear suit, angry that he wasn’t hired! (just joking here — no flames, please)
To: george76
Cuz U.S. citizens can’t bring their handguns to Canada.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:39:38 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
To: mware
When the bear realized the guy was a lawyer it terminated the attack. It's a predator professional courtesy.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:42:20 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
To: george76
Treadwell? I remember that name. That man was really into bears.
To: Conspiracy Guy
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:44:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Perhaps this was an Inuit bear guard, dressed in a bear suit I was thinking that out behind the bear guard's house is where you find the cages of all the trained attack bears.
To: george76
To: george76
bear: "doesn't taste like chicken.. or seal.
...warm dinner in a wrapper (a burrito :), how convenient!"
stupid tree-hugger; you place..put yourself in prime polar bear country,
in the open without any real protection during their fattening phase just
before the 7 month hibernation period.
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posted on
08/17/2013 7:52:19 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: skinkinthegrass
They are Sierra Clubbers. There’s not enough functioning intelligence there to determine of water is wet.
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