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Lineman tussles with bear to save it from electrocution.
Twitter / X / Fox News ^ | December 01, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 12/01/2025 11:53:27 AM PST by Red Badger

VIDEO AT LINK.................

POWER STRUGGLE: A lineman successfully coaxed a bear off a utility pole in Arizona after it risked being electrocuted. The animal eventually dropped from the pole and ran off unharmed. pic.twitter.com/0OVUVIuciq— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2025


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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
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1 posted on 12/01/2025 11:53:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: marktwain

Bear Ping!.....................


2 posted on 12/01/2025 11:53:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Since when is “coaxing” the same as “tussling”?


3 posted on 12/01/2025 11:56:45 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Red Badger

4 posted on 12/01/2025 11:57:41 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: fidelis

Depends on which end of the stick you’re on.................


5 posted on 12/01/2025 11:59:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

to quote jim croce, “sometime they say that you eat the bear, and sometime the bear eat you.”


6 posted on 12/01/2025 12:03:33 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: fidelis

Maybe coax was a pun on coax cable.


7 posted on 12/01/2025 12:15:37 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Red Badger

Eagles’ linemen were beaten by the Bears last week.


8 posted on 12/01/2025 12:30:49 PM PST by rfp1234 (E porcibus unum)
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To: Red Badger

He’s lucky it didn’t climb in the bucket with him.


9 posted on 12/01/2025 12:33:12 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Red Badger
Was this in Wichita, by chance?
/humor
10 posted on 12/01/2025 12:36:17 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

I was thinking that! He would have a long jump.................


11 posted on 12/01/2025 12:38:51 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Catch!
(I know you meant the lineman)

12 posted on 12/01/2025 12:49:54 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Red Badger

Bears in Arizona?!


13 posted on 12/01/2025 1:46:11 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri
Bears in Arizona?!


14 posted on 12/01/2025 1:47:00 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: philman_36; Red Badger

After this heroic act, he could probably use a long vacation.


15 posted on 12/01/2025 1:54:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: Bikkuri

yes yes
bears in Arizona
I have run into several in the wild
the lineman bear tussle happened right down the road from me


16 posted on 12/01/2025 2:49:45 PM PST by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: Bikkuri

Bears are everywhere. ...............


17 posted on 12/01/2025 4:43:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SisterK

“Dude, stop beatin’ me with that stick - I haven’t found a tree I could climb since I moved to the desert!” - Bear


18 posted on 12/01/2025 4:45:39 PM PST by Ranxerox
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To: philman_36

Either way, he’s a lineman for the county (in question).


19 posted on 12/01/2025 5:37:34 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

In this day and age he probably works for a company, not a county.


20 posted on 12/01/2025 6:45:26 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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