Posted on 08/14/2019 6:13:58 PM PDT by ransomnote
It was about half past midnight when Russ Fee woke up to the sound of frantic shouts coming from a campsite next to his in Canada's Banff National Park. From within his tent, he listened, quickly discerning that the voices belonged to a man and a woman. They were screaming for help.
"I threw my shoes on. My wife tossed me a lantern," Fee said in an interview Tuesday with the radio show "Calgary Eyeopener." "I popped out of the tent and just started running toward their tent sort of yelling, 'I'm here! I'm here! What's wrong?'"
Fee, who is from Calgary, told the program that he expected to find "two really scared parents" whose child had wandered off into the woods. Instead, the sight that greeted him was much more distressing.
The family's tent was in shambles, Fee said, and sticking out of its entrance was the rear end of a large wolf.
In what officials with Parks Canada are calling a "very rare incident," a wolf attacked a New Jersey couple and their two children who were visiting the national park in Banff, Alberta, early Friday - a harrowing encounter that may have ended differently if it weren't for Fee's quick thinking, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
"We are forever grateful to Russ who came to our aid," Elisa Rispoli, whose husband, Matt, was injured in the attack, wrote on Facebook. Describing Fee as a "guardian angel," Elisa added that the Canadian man probably saved her husband's life.
"It could have been so so much worse, and we are just feeling so thankful that we are all still sitting here as a complete family," she wrote.
The Rispolis were asleep in their tent at the park's Rampart Creek Campground when they were jolted awake after midnight by the wolf.
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I never understood the abysmal idiots who wanted to repopulate these monsters in areas that humans frequented. Always shook my head at their stupidity. This is on them.
Wow, I hate to think what would have happened if the guy hadn’t help.
Good thing he had a firear-————— Oh.
Maybe I am naive, but who goes camping in the wilderness without a weapon.?
Whenever I go hiking, my black lab and my Ruger Redhawk .44 magnum go with me.
“’The Lakes in Alberta and BC are amazing, the mountains are dynamic, the wild life is (well you know),’ he wrote. ‘I’m sure I’ll be back some day but maybe in a camper van instead.’”
OMG! How can he still have a sense of humor after THAT ? But thank goodness he does, LOL!
How admirable of the parents protecting their young kids that way, too! “Take me! Spare my babies!”
How horrifying for that family. How many could even imagine that? Yikes!
SJackson - Outdoor/Wildlife PING to the EXTREME!
The lab is called baiting. The 44 is nice icing.
And yet most animal activists will claim that wolves don’t attack people.
Oh yeah, heard it all. "There are no documented cases of wolf attacks in North America." The problem with this is that wolves can't write.
I remember when wolves were the “IN” creature back in the 1970s. They could do no wrong!
Honey, let’s go to Banff, I feel like being close to nature....
"You will not need a gun, geting one into Canada is a lot of work. Everytime I cross by car, as soon as I say I am from Texas, I get are you carrying a handgun."
But liberals want to bait them [Texans, I mean]
I would take that question as a source of pride.
Liberals can pound sand.
Then you would not be hiking in Canada. They don't allow visitors from the USA to bring handguns into their anti-gun paradise. (except for those driving to Alaska and they put some sort of seals on them or something like that - my information may be long out of date on this)
We have many fold the likelihood of being killed by illegals than wolves.
I don’t think that is correct. In 2002 I moved my family from Alaska to Idaho. It was not possible to bring a handgun into the paradise of no-handguns Canada at that time. I did bring a lever-action .45/70 which was fine at that time as long as I declared it at both borders. Not even sure if that would work now.
Bet they were eating something meaty and delicious-smelling and the wolf wanted some of it.
Anyone who has watched animal shows on TV for years have heard the environmentalists repeatedly say wolves have never attacked humans. /s
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