Posted on 01/19/2023 4:42:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
WALES, Alaska (KTUU) - A polar bear attacked and killed two people in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, Tuesday afternoon
Troopers wrote in a dispatch that they received the report at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday involving a woman and a young boy.
Troopers identified the victims Wednesday morning as 24-year-old Summer Myomick, of St. Michael, and her 1-year-old son Clyde Ongtowasruk.
The attack occurred in the village near the school, troopers said. The two were walking between the clinic and the school when the attack occurred.
Susan Nedza is the Chief School Administrator for the Bering Strait School District which includes the K-12 school in Wales. Nedza said the school’s principal called her while the attack was ongoing just outside the school’s front entrance...The principal told her several school employees went outside to see if they could stop the attack.
“Some of them actually were outside at one point trying to hit the bear with shovels to get it to stop, and it wouldn’t,” said Nedza. “It chased them actually and tried to come into the school when the principal let them in to keep them safe. So it tried to come in and they were able to close the door and keep it outside.”
A short time later, Nedza said, a community member arrived and shot the bear.
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Black Bears, I did not know about. They can be fairly large.
Grizzly and Polar Bears are huge.
We have at times had mountain lions, out of mountains in Mexico. And far too many coyotes, bobcats and feral hogs.
Because it was hungry.
Note the “Gun Free Zone Policy” found here:
https://education.alaska.gov/safeschools/persistdangerous
Would have been prudent to have more than shovels to protect their children. Bravo for the “rifleman” bringing a firearm to a “gunfree zone” despite the legal and financial jeopardy he and his family could face from the regime.
Voting Dem/Rino has consequences for everyone.
Polar bears don’t hibernate.
The ones on TV do.........................😜
And we have feral hogs too.................😁
We’re up to our ears in Black Bears!....................protected species...............
On the internet they roast penguins on a spit. I’d rather live near those Polar bears.
Oh, so more bureaucrap creating a problem?
Yes, you are not allowed to kill them unless it’s to save a human life. And even then you have to prove that it was so...................
Yes, it is impossible to get rid of wild feral hogs.
Multiply too fast.
We have even allowed them to be hunted out of helicopter with semi auto rifles. I’ve seen 30 or more move in a group a time or two.
Like I said, bureaucrap.
Shooting the bear was the only choice they had.
They are a real problem on Eglin AFB. They root up endangered plants and destroy the environment.
It was DeSoto’s fault.................
https://research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v10n3/extract6.html
Trap them and kill them and make sausage from them.
We have 4 traps on our property that we occasionally set for them.
At least it wasn’t a BiPolar Bear or I’d never hear the end of it.
That was a long time ago. Don’t think they have been in Texas nearly that long. Russian boars were said to have been seeded here, they intermixed with tame gone will hogs. They are every stripe and shape now.
Thank you for your first hand experience back ground.
Those folks died because the school was a gun free zone? Its so ludicrous. The Dept of Education in Alaska should have their pants sued off.
If we are not careful, woke liberalism is going to kill many of us.
Watch the left blame this on Globul Schwarming, “humans are evil, reduce their numbers” meme.
That poor woman should have been packing a .454 Casul.
She was eaten alive. Call it what it is.The man who dispatched the bear likely came while the bear was devouring left overs.
Estimated that there are over 3 million wild hogs in Florida......................
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