Posted on 02/19/2021 10:58:03 AM PST by SJackson
ALASKAPublished 17 hours ago
Brown bears are typically dormant during the winter – but they don’t go into a 'true hibernation'
In the wilderness, you need to watch your butt sometimes.
An Alaska woman camping with her brother near Chilkat Lake over the weekend nearly had to kiss hers goodbye when she encountered a bear in the outhouse, she told a local radio station.
"I got in there and sat down on the toilet seat, and something just immediately bit me in the butt," Shannon Stevens told the Haines, Alaska-based KHNS Wednesday. "I jumped up and screamed."
The commotion got the attention of her brother, Erik Stevens, who said he ran over to the outhouse.
"I take the headlamp and I grab the lid of the toilet seat and I lift it up," he told the station. "Right at the level of the toilet seat, maybe an inch or two below, is a gigantic bear face looking right back up at me."
The duo ran back to shelter, cleaned up Shannon’s injuries, which were not serious, and hunkered down for the night, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The next morning, they found tracks leading from their campfire to the outhouse, but the bear itself was gone.
They said the animal may have entered below the outhouse through a downhill opening and made its way toward the seat.
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A moose bit my sister once.
Took me a few seconds...but that’s funny.
Looks like Yogi Bear enjoys other things besides picnic baskets......
The old bag cut the line, and Yogi was not happy bout that!
We used that method in Vietnam - on a daily basis, the local sanitation engineers would pull the container (made by cutting a 55 gal. barrel in half) from under the latrine, pour a cup of diesel fuel on top and light it. There was often little clearance underneath the seat so you made sure your equipment was not hanging down when the barrel was pulled....the edges were ragged and sharp.
Enjoy the go, indeed !
This sort of thing is more common in china where they have the economical pig toilet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet
Those chinese are so far ahead of us.
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Back in the day, my great uncle staggered to the outhouse, drunk as a skunk after getting his weekly pay and enjoying a few brewskis. He accidentally dropped his wallet in the hole. Got a saw, went in after it, and retrieved the wallet. My great-aunt made him sleep outside for a week. Thankfully, it was summertime.
Disaster.
I would be worried about spiders.
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