Posted on 10/13/2013 4:30:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono
GRAND FALLS, New Brunswick, - A Canadian man says he successfully fended off an attacking black bear by grabbing its tongue.
Gilles Cyr says he was walking through his wooded property near Grand Falls, New Brunswick, two weeks ago when the bruin burst out of the woods and assailed him, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday.
"When I opened up my eyes it was on top of me -- with the friggin' noise, it's crazy the way it growls," Cyr said. 'His mouth was wide open right in front of my face so the last thing I remember I had his tongue in my hand and I didn't want to let go because he was trying to fight me off. So he was hitting me with his claws, so I says, 'If you're going to hurt me, I'm going to hurt you too.' So he was biting his tongue at the same time."
Cyr said he thought he was a goner.
"For a second, I thought I was dead ... that's the first thing that comes to your mind when you open your eyes and see that friggin' mouth full of teeth and a tongue in there," he said. "It's like ... an extreme sport."
Cyr said escaped behind a tree, lucky to wind up with only superficial claw wounds to his belly and a bite on his knee.
Being Sunday etal and this being a ‘family’ site....
Didn’t Michael Douglas lay claim to his tongue cancer being caused by ‘oral $eX’?
If so, if he were equipped like Brer` Bear here....etc etc...
understand his wife of 13(?) years Catherine Zeta Jones is leaving him.
Are the two ‘subjects’ related?
‘nuff said..
Freepers have bested bears in the past, as in the case of freeper Kanawa, who was forced to stab a stalking bear to death to save his loyal pooch, caught in the jaws of the beast.
The Free Republic posting telling the story from 2006 is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1670661/posts
Black bear in New Brunswick are very numerous this year, it seems.
Outstanding!
Very good.
I call BS on this story!
I lived next to two of the Cyr boys 30 years ago and neither one of them, father or son, would have grabbed that bear’s tongue - he’d have cold-cocked him straight-up, one punch.
Those Cyr boys are tough, I tell you.
Kanawa
When attacked by a black bear, grab its tongue. Check.
Glad I got that one covered.
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