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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Are You talking about People or Critters ?
You could have long arms in Canadian parks in my day in the 70s
And sidearms in USA parks as well
I traveled into Canada from Glacier Park in 1976 and checked my 1911 and model 28 at the Canuck border
They had them waiting at Vancouver two weeks later when we crossed back in after Banff and Jasper and That small park sounds like Faulkner names it..Yockanany or something like that
And we were long hairs.....stank of ganj of course and all in a Honda with gear piled on top
I know usa parks are diff on guns now but I wonder about Canada
I redid that same trip with my boys last month and dipped into Canada briefly for the hell of it at Polebridge
First time I went to glacier somlong ago now the old ranger had a mule team with gear and he was carrying a ten gauge slug and a 45-70 and a 44 mag sidearm
Heading in to kill a grizzly that had mauled two female hikers killing one or both....can’t recall
He laughed at my 1911 and told me to save a bullet for myself
And he was smoking a camel ....
Today rangers are like super pc police...
Glacier still allows firearms btw...I looked....I don’t think it’s a universal national park law though ....it depends on which state
You can have a gun in the parks but only some allow you to shoot it
Something like that
Good thing the Canadian government, knowing their population, bans most defensive handguns. Totally to Jersey people. Only government officials should "euthanize" an aggressive, hungry wolf. Not the victim.
I believe it’s federally legal to carry openly in National Parks, not sure I’d try that, concealed carry and possession governed by the adjoining state(s) law. No matter, discharging a firearm is illegal, though there are some exceptions you can claim. A wolf dragging your kid out of a tent, that might qualify in the US
Just wait 'til the next full moon, lady.
I always go back to one of my old favorites, “WHEN GUNPOWDER SPEAKS, WILDLIFE LISTENS”.
I live in the real boondocks; bears, mountain lions, coyotes, martins, etc.
I don’t work around the farm without my 45 long Colt and a 12 gauge.
My other old favorite is; “SHOOT, SHOVEL, SHUT UP”.
Getting older now so instead of a shovel I use the backhoe.
YUP; And I understand they have a real apatite for human meat, just ask Larry Correia.
Article says they didn’t have any food
I guess so. But I don’t know what kind of family camps without food! :-D
Article says it was a very old wolf near the end of his natural life. Probably looking for an easy meal. He doesn’t have a hospice to purée his food.
No, they were sleeping in their tent. The meaty and delicious smelling things were them.
Unlike those parents a couple weeks ago who ran away and left their nine year old daughter to fight a bison — which then threw her ten feet in the air.
“Mmm! City folk! I have a chance!”
The 210 attacks by the Beast of Gévaudan were just cuddles gone wrong I guess.
All honor to the rescuer and the parents who were defending their children to the last.
Certainly. Especially to the camper who didn’t know the situation until he finally came upon it. Only that it sounded dire and people were in need of his help. He didn’t know what he was getting into and, these days, it really could have been something much worse.
Hero is an over used word but I think we agree that here it fits.
Well, take a look at Congress now.
At least we get to shoot those hooved devils.
:)
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