Posted on 10/01/2015 5:45:36 PM PDT by george76
A woman who recorded the terrifying moment she encountered a black bear outside a cabin in Alaska has garnered international attention because of the way she begged and pleaded with the large mammal to please, please leave her kayak alone.
Mary Maley was on a solo kayaking trip from Ketchikan to Petersburg, Alaska, when she decided to stop at a U.S. Forest Service cabin in Berg Bay. Before she could head out on a four-mile hike, she met her nemesis, the bear. Maley posted a video ..
“I had just carried my tent, food, and all my gear into the cabin to dry,” Maley wrote on YouTube. “I heard something outside as I ate my lunch, and well, I never got to go on that hike.”
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Thank you for leaving my kayak alone,” Maley says at the very start of the video. Then the bear starts lumbering towards her. “I’m going to pepper spray you in the face,” she says. And she does.
Alas, this doesn’t seem to have the desired effect. The bear turns around and Maley’s worst fear is realized. It’s heading for her kayak.
No! Get away from the kayak,” Maley yells. But her efforts are futile. The bear is now squarely focused on the kayak.
“Why are you breaking my kayak!? Stop it! Bear! Stop that!” Maley screams as the bear swats her kayak, nibbles on it and even flips it over. ..
Please stop, bear,” she says. “It’s the end of September. Why are you here? You’re supposed to be asleep. Why are you here?”
Then she tries to reason with it.
“Please stop breaking my things,” she says. “It’s not even food. It doesn’t even taste good. It’s just plastic. Bear, please stop.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Can’t listen to that screechy woman for more than 2 seconds...wish the bear took a bite out of her instead of the kayak.
Yikes.
ARRRHHHHHHH! The stupid hurts! Please stop!
That made my evening. What a useless person.
That’s funny. I’d bet she never marries. We know who she votes for.
“Maybe if I rip up this kayak, she’ll shut the hell up.”
OMG - I am rooting for the bear!
Holy crap. Whot an eeeeediot!! d;^)
Why do these idiots still believe they are in a Disney movie? What are the chances that she didn't even have a good crew served magnum pistol in her gear? Something along the lines of a .50 Desert Eagle?
And that would be a start. .300 Win Mag, .338 LaPua, or a .458 Winchester. Not talking a long range rifle with a powerful scope. 3x9 scope, or even iron sights, somewhat short barrel. As protection from bear and moose at conversation range. This is still wilderness.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word.
Good grief. She shouldn’t be out on the water alone.
(Maybe if she hadn’t screeched at the bear it would have just wandered off...)
-JT
That's funny! Quote of the Day!
A .454 Casul means never having to say please stop. :-)
Nobody can really be that stupid. Can they?
Darn it, she forgot her “bear spray” ... now that would have made it interesting rather than those useless screeches!
Only a leftist enviro would go on a trip like that along, lucky for her it was the kayak it chewed up.
Someone at the source site asked the same question I had: when people record things like this, how does the video become public? One would think that a person would want to keep a video like this private...
-JT
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