Posted on 06/26/2019 6:01:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
GRAPHIC WARNING A severely wounded man described as a “speaking mummy” has been rescued from a bear den where a beast had dragged him as a future meal. Named only as Alexander, he was found by hunting dogs around one month after he was overpowered by the predator in Russia’s remote Tuva region. Close to death, the emaciated man was rushed to hospital where he was diagnosed with a broken spine from his fight with the brown bear, say reports.
He told doctors a large predator had overpowered him. “The bear preserved me as food for later,” he explained. He drank his own urine to survive, he said. Medics say it is a “miracle” that he is alive. A group of Russian hunters found Alexander after their dogs barked and refused to move on from a bear den they passed in the forest in mountainous Tuva, say reports.
The story is reported by major Russian newspaper Izvestia and appears to originate from news agency EADaily.
But a spokesman at the health ministry in Tuva Republic, a region in southern Siberia, told East2West News today: “We cannot confirm the case happened in Tuva.
“It was not registered by the Ministry of Health, the Emergencies Ministry or any other official body (in the region).
“Most probably, it happened somewhere outside Tuva.”
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Bear den? Bears don’t live in caves. Maybe they hibernate in them, maybe they have their cubs in dens, but I’ve never heard of a bear caching food in a den or cave.
Maybe it was a confused mother thinking this naked thing was a cub?
Of course, I’m usually wrong more than I’m right...
Neither am I. At all. Bears tend to avoid contact with humans whenever possible unless they are females with cubs or they feel directly threatened and there is no escape route for them. Although they do break into peoples homes in remote areas because they associate humans with food. They are indeed very strong, powerful and dangerous animals but as I said generally they try as much as possible to avoid contact with humans.
Gosh - are the bears turning into squirrels? Or maybe alligators or crocodiles? Never knew they stashed live meat in the cellar for later use - even gators don’t leave the stashes alive...
Overnight ...
“Man dragged into bear den and kept as future meal a month ago found ALIVE”
So why didn’t the bear eat him?
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Rule 1 in "journalism" is "Don't EVER proofread your writing. It makes you look weak and proves you don't trust your skills."
Gotta be fake, bears attack people if they feel threatened, not for food. I’m sure any reasonable bear biologist could poke a dozen holes in this story. He’s probably just some drunk on the run from the law.
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