Posted on 08/25/2020 7:28:02 PM PDT by george76
Stephanie Blais, 44, was killed on Thursday after she was attacked by the black bear outside the cabin at McKie Lake, near Buffalo Narrows .
Blais had been on the phone with her father, Hubert Esquirol, at the time of the attack.
Her nine-year-old son watched horrifically from inside the cabin .
A conservation officer said that the bear attack was unprovoked.
They also said the bear was not hungry and had a stomach full of berries.
A Canadian woman was fatally mauled by a bear while outside her family's cabin while on the phone with her father, and to the horror of her young son who was just inside when the attack occurred.
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Blais' husband, Curtis, called the worried father...
He called me and told me that Stephanie had been attacked by a bear. The bear wouldn't let go so he shot the bear ...
'He then proceeded to give her CPR but she had no pulse.'
Eli, Blais' nine-year-old son, saw the horrific scene from inside the cabin.
The woman's father was surprised by the attack as bears have always been around the property but have never presented a problem before.
'We never leave any food around, we have never given them a reason to stay. There has never been any provoked bears or any that seemed angry. They would always run off,' he said.
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A conservation officer told the father that the bear was unprovoked in its attack.
'Stephanie would have been in the bears' sight. She had her back turned. She didn't see it,' Esquirol said.
The bear's stomach was found full of berries leading the officer to believe that the bear was not hungry.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Would it have helped if he had watched with more skill?
My 76 year old wife shooed a black bear off our deck this afternoon with a soup ladle and pot lid.
The bear fled at the noise.
The bugger had stripped a cherry tree in our yard yesterday and broke a few branches in the process.
If he keeps this up, we’ll deal with him. I’ve only had to do that once in the last 18 years. We live next to actual wilderness and bears are mostly easy to run off.
I hope this one is like the rest; I hate dead bears.
My 76 year old wife shooed a black bear off our deck this afternoon with a soup ladle and pot lid.
The bear fled at the noise.
The bugger had stripped a cherry tree in our yard yesterday and broke a few branches in the process.
If he keeps this up, we’ll deal with him. I’ve only had to do that once in the last 18 years. We live next to actual wilderness and bears are mostly easy to run off.
I hope this one is like the rest; I hate dead bears.
“Her nine-year-old son watched horrifically”...good old Daily Mail...always the worst writing. I suspect he was actually horrified.
If bears could talk, they might say, “Y’all been shooting and killing us for 200 years, then ya turn us into rugs and decorations. Leave us alone”.
“Canadian woman, 44, is mauled to death by a black bear while on phone to her father outside family cabin while her nine-year-old son watched from inside...”
Well if the bear doesn’t kill you at least the hyperbole will.
You people are friggin sick.
thank you for your home page :)
Some languages just don’t translate well into American...
Knock out game? Attempt at polar bear hunting?
Black bears are like polar bears, they hunt their prey.
Do we need to look, or can we guess?
A woman’s life is lost, and her little boy will always remember what he saw. A tragedy all around. Another reminder that black bears do sometimes kill people.
“A black bear spokesbear later came on tv and proceeded to blame white people in canada as the real problem...”
or
A black bear spokesbear later came on tv and proceeded to blame white polar bears in canada as the real problem...
Sad. But complacency may have been contibuting factor. Bears were known to frequent the site.....cellphone distraction may have been involved in this tragedy also. Another life sorrowfully lost.
Black Bears Matter!
Rueful +1
Another example of a point too often ignored: nature wants to hurt and kill you.
Omg, that poor little boy witnessing his mother’s death. :(
Should of learn to shoot like Bella Twin who killed a grizzly with a 22.
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