Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death

The Record.com ^ | Jul 22, 2006 | MELINDA DALTON

[Old Student]

"I wish there were bears in Ireland... I could prove my manhood!! ;)"

I've got three kids, that's all the proof I need!

Adventure is someone else in deep stuff, far, far, away! And I get to read about it, not live it.

[Das Outsider]

Did you see this?

Unless he done kilt a bar at the ripe age of three, no, I haven't. ;)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yeah.. we do have sharks.. I'm going sea fishing again in a fortnight.....

[Candor7]

I thought I would take this opportunity to say that the Canadian Wilderness has a profound effect on Canadians who spend a lot of time in it.

It is one of the things that defines Canadians as different from Americans. Canada still has a vast , empty frontier laced with rivers and lakes stretching far into the Northern tundra.

I do not derogate Americans, I am one, but when I recently posted to a thread about the Canadian military, I tried to communicate this difference to my fellow Americans, who didn;t get it. I was seen as somewaht eccentric for saying that Canadian soldiers from rural areas of Canada had the old skills and attitudes largely missing today from soldiers in the USA, except perhaps those of Native American extraction.

The Candaian wilderness and ones ability to sojourn in it for lenghty periods of timew generates a view and skill iin survival, clear thinking and resourcefulness in many. These traditions are still passed down in families and through friendship with fellow travellers, and native Canadians have taught us a lot.

This has defined many Canadian men from the rural areas of Canada, many of whom are comprise the backbone of Cnada's small military. Most of them could have done what Kanawa did, not to take away from his bravery and accomplishment, but it is a fact. It is the character that Kanawa has and his resourcefulness and skill defined by wilderness experience which are shared by so many Canadian men and women.

It is something that Canadians should remember in their often too strident insistance that they are different from Americans. It is in this area that they surely are, and Canadians should have confidence in that as an established fact.

The results are not always positive though, we have a murderer of two RCMP officers at large in Northern Manitoba because of these skills and character, and he may never be found.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yeah.. I don't have kids yet! Don't have a girlfriend/wife to have have kids with! ;)

[fanfan]

There you go!
Make sure you report back to us FReepers!

;-)

[Das Outsider]

What an awesome story! And this was with a six-inch hunting knife?

[ovrtaxt]

That's true- I have met e few standard poodles, and as long as they don't have those ridiculous haircuts, they are pretty cool.

[fanfan]

Pretty amazing, eh?

A true Canadian man and his dog.

:-)

[Old Student]

"What an awesome story! And this was with a six-inch hunting knife?"

This story is proof-positive that there is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous people!

[Das Outsider]

A true Canadian man and his dog

Makes me proud to be an "honourary" Canadian.

[Das Outsider]

This story is proof-positive that there is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous people!

Now if we could get Canadian civilians to take the same approach to radical Islam...

[NicknamedBob]

"... hairs raising on your neck when you smell a recent kill and you note that distinctive Bear smell while hemmed in by Willows ..."

Gosh, Jeff. I thought you were a bigger man than that.

http://www.lepconnie.com/willow/archives/magdavis8.jpg

[Old Student]

"Don't have a girlfriend/wife to have have kids with! ;)"

That is a solvable problem. Don't sweat it! I was in my late 30's before I could make the claim, anyway. Perhaps more important, at least to me, is that I live with them and their mother, to whom I've been married nearly 25 years.

You may have to move to the states, but somewhere out there is a conservababe just for you!

[old gringo]

because black bears are harmless.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I'll probably just catch more mackerel....

;)

[fanfan]

I thought I would take this opportunity to say that the Canadian Wilderness has a profound effect on Canadians who spend a lot of time in it.

That's for sure.

I spent quite a bit of time in Algonquin Park in my youth.

I've backpacked food for a week, carried canoes across portages, cooked every meal on a fire, (Mmmm, Kraft Dinner with a pinch of wood ember, and smores for desert!!!), dug latrines, used salt to get the leaches off, pitched a tent, wormed my hooks, cleaned fish, etc.

All while I was a 7 - 14 year old girl.
I was very lucky. :-D

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Don't sweat it! I was in my late 30's before I could make the claim, anyway.

yeah, I have another decade or so to go!

You may have to move to the states, but somewhere out there is a conservababe just for you!

Mark Steyn once said that conservative women in Ireland are thinner on the ground than Jews in Arafat's cabinet - I want to prove him wrong! (Though, not easy to prove Steyn wrong...)

[fanfan]

:-)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I'm gonna have to camp on the peak of Mweelrea!