[rustbucket]

People in this country in far more danger from automobiles, junk food diets, and criminals than wildlife.

Not when hiking in mountain lion country.

My company required that I get bear training and be accompanied by an armed bear guard when going to remote parts of Alaska on company business. Guess they should have talked to you first.

[IrishCatholic]

At the web site Strange Cosmos there is a series of three pictures of a bear killed by an Alaskan ranger. The ranger was hunting elk when the bear charged. The bear was over 12 ft. and a thousand pounds. The first picture was of the ranger and the bears head. The second was the Ranger holding up the bears paw. The third was of the guy the bear had previously eaten.
In the city we may be at the top of the food chain, but in the woods,to lions and tigers and bears, oh my, we are food.
What was the name of the bear expert that would walk with bears? He would go right up to them etc. It was because he 'understood' them. He and his girlfriend got eaten by a bear. May God have mercy on them. I remember the story. The bear had kept parts to eat later. The parts were seen by helicopter near the campsite of the expert and the bear was shot. NOT the bear's fault. It was just being a bear. Just like cougars are cougars.
So when some idiot releases cougars next to a kids camp I would take a scene from "The Ghost and the Darkness". I would stake out the person responsible near the kid's camp fence. The lions would then be drawn to the struggles of the person. Then I would, if I was still awake, shoot the lion. O.K., so I am kidding. But I would make sure my kid never went near that area.