Posted on 01/21/2005 7:51:46 PM PST by SolidRedState
For 16 months since Amie Huguenard and Timothy Treadwell died in the jaws of a bear at Kaflia Bay on the Katmai Coast, I have been waking up at night with thoughts of this 37-year-old Midwestern woman I never knew.
I can't get free of the words in an e-mail from an old boyfriend, sent months after Huguenard's death.
"Amie had a kind of naivete about her that added a real sweetness to her entire persona,'' Stephen Bunch wrote. "At times it was easy to convince her of things that were not entirely true. We would let her in on these jokes and get a good laugh, especially from her.
"Sometimes I found this quality frustrating because I would watch her 'swallow the hook, line and sinker' in situations where it was obvious what was going on. But I always felt I could trust her because she bestowed the same trust in you unconditionally.''
The last person Amie Huguenard trusted was Treadwell, and it led to her death in the jaws of a bear.
Ever since, she has been billed as Treadwell's "partner" in the tragedy. Early reviews of "Grizzly Man,'' a Treadwell film set to air at the Sundance Film Festival later this month, describe her that way or as the "girlfriend'' following Treadwell on his quest to "leave the confinements of his humanness and bond with the bears.''
That's a novel idea -- and one that is so much bunk.
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/6029929p-5919386c.html
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I always say, let them have their world and we live in ours and don't get too close without a big gun.
..... and some days the bear eats you....
Another PETA nut gets a lesson in the reality of nature. Good riddance.
One word: 45/70.
Oh, du big bear is so cute, OUCH!
If only the bear were a vegan...:-)
Darwin Award Candidate Alert! ;-)
Oh, don't ya know, they only eat berries.
ROFLMAO! Sure, and mountain lions only eat squirrels ;-)
When he yelled for her to hit the bear with the frying pan, it should have been a tip off that they were in trouble. I would hesitate to attack a bear with anything smaller than at least a high powered rifle, much less a frying pan.
Or if he only ate at McDonalds
I would want something more powerful than just a 45/70, you are talking 1870 technology.
A frying pan will only make him very testy. These idoits saunter off to seek encounters with animals that are jolly unpredictable and act surprised when the critters behave like, well, wild critters.
A SAW would do nicely.
Apparently the two bears involved would have eatten EVERYBODY at McDonalds.
Never trust a hungry bear
The same enviro wackos who want to get rid of pets. Its seems they confuse domesticated beasts with the beasts of the jungle. Its just as well they don't know why they got eaten.
"Or if he only ate at McDonalds"
Bear: I'll have the PETA loon with cheese and a side order of hiker.
On the tape, when they were being killed, his last words were for her to hit the bear with the frying pan.
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