Loaded for bear.
Posted on 06/04/2004 1:30:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Bear breaks into house, attacks, but resident attacks back. Local animal rights groups outraged.
VICTORIA, BC (PRWEB) May 26, 2004 -- In an attempt to get a free meal, what was described as a "very large" bear broke into the rural homestead of a BC college student, who was home on vacation at the time. The student, who would only give his name as Ryan, says, "I had just grilled out some salmon and walked back into the dining room to eat. Just as I had just sat down, it sounded at though someone was trying to break down my door." As Ryan went to investigate, the door burst open and the gaping maw of a northern Kodiak bear appeared inside his living room. Ryan recalls, "It was the scariest moment of my life, right up there with the fishing accident in Sasketoon when I was twelve."
As the bear forced it's way into the dining room area, the beast found the grilled salmon it had smelled from what authorities estimated was over a mile away, where they found the bear's tracks around a small cave. Ryan tried shouting at the bear to get it to leave, but the bear seemed to be intent on the salmon it was feasting on.
Ryan then proceeded to throw various kitchen utensials at the bear to get it's attention. "I wasn't sure what I was going to do," he said. "After I hit the bear in the head with a wooden spoon, the bear started coming after me!" The would-be bear snack ran to the other side of the kitchen counter as the bear raised up on it's hind legs and tried swatting at him. "The bear was blocking my way to my room where I actually have a gun, so I found the only thing I had that I did not throw at him, my frying pan." he relates. "I picked up the frying pan and shouted, bring it on, bring it on!" Ryan jumped over the counter and started swinging the frying pan. The animal, estimated at six feet tall on all fours and over eight hundred pounds, got back on all fours and started to charge the young man. When the bear was about 1 foot away from him, Ryan swung the cast iron frying pan and hit the bear on the right side of its head. "The bear appeared to be dazed, so I just kept pounding him with the frying pan."
"After I hit the bear about fifteen times, the bear fell to the floor, but I dared not let up. I hit him for about another five minutes until he was not moving at all," Ryan says. Only then did he take the time to call for local law enforcement. "When the police showed up, they could not believed what they saw."
"It was the craziest thing I've ever seen," said Officer F. Barnes, of the Victoria crime scene investigation unit. "He actually killed a bear with a frying pan." The local wildlife officer showed up and took measurements of the bear, one of the largest involved in a home invasion incident in recent memory.
The bear caused about $400 dollars in damage to the house. There is no word on what became of the animal's body, but local animal rights activists are filing to take posession of the bear's remains, claiming it was an immoral act of killing, and Ryan should not be allowed to make a bearskin rug out of it. Darcy Morris, president of the local chapter of Animal Rights Abuse Watch (ARAW), says, "This young man should be prosecuted, not praised. The bear was simply following his natural instincts, and had this Ryan criminal left it alone, no harm would have been done. It's disgusting, and he can expect to hear from our lawyers." Ryan's attorney could not be reached for comment.
Kewl. In that case, let's hope he still has the frying pan.
Would that be the frying pan or your grandma's cornbread? ;)
Loaded for bear.
Wow... braver than I am LOL
We had a bear trying to break into a neighbor's house last week, she was roasting a turkey and heard someone banging on her front door. She peeked out a window and saw a mother bear trying to get her door open and there were two cubs playing in her yard. She called Public Safety and they frightened the bears into leaving the area. I always look before I open my door :-)
Is this story for real? It is too laughable. I want to know what the F happened in his fishing accident.
ROFLMBO!!! Too funny!
I suppose we'll need to get licenses for frying pans now?
I've had "fishing accidents" but never any that ranked up there with fighting a Kodiak.
Somebody needs to get this kid to explain just what kind of "fishing accident" he had.
Forget the bear. What the heck happened in Saskatoon?
Mmm.. bear stew.
True, but consider how hard you could swing it (especially one-handed) reaching up (the bear was how tall?), and how much abuse a bear can take and keep coming (a lot!). Still think this smells fishy.
Exactly.
If the bear was the size stated (not even large by Kodiak standards), It would take a lot more than a whack from a frying pan to even get his attention, let alone daze him.
Six-foot bears don't weigh 800 lbs. More like 250, I'd guess. And that's hardly "large" for any brown bear, let along a Kodiak. There's a lot of bull to this bear.
smells like fiction.
smells like fiction. funny - but fiction
When frying pans are outlawed, only bears will have frying pans.
None for me, thanks. Bear meat stinks.
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