Posted on 05/21/2023 3:22:52 PM PDT by DFG
Talk about bad news bears.
A Canadian man T-boned a black bear while biking through a conservation reserve — suffering a fractured scapula, cardiac contusion and bruised ribs, among other injuries.
Kevin Milner, 30, of North Vancouver, British Columbia, was rounding a corner and heading downhill in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve there Tuesday when he spotted the bear — and tried to cruise around him.
“The second I made that decision, he decided to run and he ran right across the road, right in front of me and I smashed into him right behind his shoulder blade,” Milner told North Shore News.
“I did a flip over him. I pretty much kissed the bear and then I guess I flew through the air.”
Milner landed hard on his side, while the bear took off through the woods.
Passing cyclists immediately stopped and helped him. Two women cyclists concerned about his condition rode toward the edge of the reserve to get enough cell reception to call 911, while a third bystander who had been riding an e-bike stayed with Milner.
But the next arrival wasn’t an ambulance or EMS — it was the same bear Milner had just plowed into.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“That’s basically it. Maybe sticking his hand in a bee’s nest while scaling Half Dome was more interesting. Or getting “nudged” by orcas on his sailboard off Catalina....
My story is much more interesting. Did a wheelie a couple times. Once ate Mexican when I had a stomach virus...”
You and your brother live on the edge of life, don’t you?
Well, the injured many used the e-bike to get closer to the EMS help. Probably he could not have pedaled a regular bike in his condition.
This is exactly what happened to a boyfriend of mine when he was getting his PhD in Alberta Canada. He was mountain biking down the side of a mountain (he was GONZO) and hit a bear. Had to be airlifted to a hospital, and woke up six months later. Had a serious TBI— but still went on to earn his PhD in Geology and now works for an oil company or something.
He was wearing a helmet, too. But not a bear proof one, I guess.
“I pretty much kissed the bear and then I guess I flew through the air.”
Sounds like the makings of a country song
“The bear started eating grass”.
He hit a cow.
Another filthy, stinking, drug-addled hippie crashing into livestock.
*injured man
Having seen a HUMAN smashed into and badly injured by one of these out-of-control off-road bicyclists, I have no sympathy whatsoever for this lunatic. Shame the bear didn’t eat him.
Haha, yes they do!
Now, there is a huge difference between blacks and grizz. Wolf poop is large as well.
Always got a little nervous seeing fresh grizz and wolf scat.
bkmk
I believe it was Ranger Smith.
Some days you just can’t get rid of a bear.
Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear get YOU ......
Cub reporter relates kodiak moment of man who suffered grizzly injuries after bike boo-boo with a black bear.
In Canada, on a bike, gets his @ss kicked by a bear. Talk about the trifecta of suck.
“I’m just really, really glad to be alive,” he added. “It’s like the most Canadian, North Vancouver thing that could ever happen.”
LOL
If it had been a Vancouver tranny bear this could have ended differently…
Thank you.
I almost hit a black bear with a motorcycle when I was a teenager. Came over a little rise in the road and there was a black bear in the road who was apparently confused about the location of the motorcycle. My front tire missed his rump by about a foot as he was bailing out of there as quickly as he could. I don’t know who was more shook up by the incident.
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