[2ndDivisionVet]

Balderdash, everyone knows Yogi and Boo Boo only eat picnic baskets.

[Tax-chick]

The victim -- who teaches wilderness survival at the camp

Wilderness survival ... yer doin' it wrong, son.

[onona]

That bacon scented shampoo was a bad idea

[Lou L]

My daughter recently returned from a camping trip in Rocky Mountain National Park, not too far from this ranch. Aside from an elk, they saw few “large” animals on the trip.

[novemberslady]

Did they use their pepper spray?

[dljordan]

That’s right up the road here. Geez.

[TheNext]

If the victim fired his fully loaded machine gun, at the bear, then he graduated survival class with full honors.

Did he do that?

[PGR88]

So what’s the real story about bear attacks? I’ve heard - don’t surprise them, don’t get between them and their cubs, leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone, and if attacked, play dead because they only attack aggressors... Sounds mostly like BS to me.

If they kid was sleeping, he was as much “playing dead” as is possible without actually being dead, yet still was sought out as a meal.

Any truly experience Freepers who can enlighten me?

[BitWielder1]

... awakens to 'crunching sound ...

He's lucky he woke up at all.

[kitchen]

Always - Always! - sleep with your gun in your sleeping bag.

[Jumper]

Use a Bear-Bag/canister hanging it from a tree 200 feet away, and don’t take food or toothpaste to “sleeping bag” at night. A teachable moment. Liberals don’t understand physics or the law of nature.... and they never listened to Mother Nature!

[WKUHilltopper]

Never go into the woods unarmed. Or anywhere else for that matter.

[minnesota_bound]

A bear food commercial:
“You know it is good when you hear a crunching sound”

[Billthedrill]

It is more effective than an alarm clock, you have to admit. I live in bear country. I am always armed. It’s that simple.

[Sequoyah101]

You can’t really only be one with nature until you’re lunch. That place is really in wild country five miles or less out of Boulder. Wild enough I guess.

[Mastador1]

Could have been worse.........it, could have been the last sound he ever heard.

[SJackson]

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