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Black bear attacks and kills grandmother, 70, on fishing trip
Globe and Mail ^ | June 2, 2008 | KATE HAMMER

Posted on 06/04/2008 2:26:03 PM PDT by george76

The husband of a 70-year-old grandmother who was killed by a bear in northern Quebec ...

Conservation experts set traps after Friday evening's attack, but ... the bear was still at large in the wilds of northern Quebec.

As she scouted a fishing hole for walleye, Ms. Lavoie became separated from her husband. Barely 10 minutes later, Mr. Lavoie felt something was amiss and went searching for his wife of 51 years. Metres away he came upon the nightmarish scene of her body being dragged into the forest by a bear.

Mr. Lavoie chased the predator for nearly 200 metres and managed very briefly to scare it away from his wife. He tried but was unable to carry her limp and bleeding body back through the dense spring foliage.

He left her and went for help. When he arrived with police, the bear had returned and was combative.

"The bear was still around and the bear was aggressive,"

The bear was so aggressive, police were forced to delay attempts to retrieve Ms. Lavoie's remains until early Saturday morning...

In 1991, a black bear killed a Toronto couple in Algonquin Park...

In 2001, a high-school student was attacked and partly eaten by a black bear 25 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.

In 2007, a Calgary woman, who was cycling on a trail near a British Columbia resort, was stalked and killed by a black bear.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; armedcitizen; banglist; bear; bearattack; bearattacks; bears; blackbear; blackbearattack; blackbears; donutwatch; environment; maul; quebec; wimps
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To: george76

Just seemed appropriate:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lzdLkexl7_Y


21 posted on 06/04/2008 3:06:06 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: george76

“Climbing a tree can be an effective way to escape attack.”

Hah! Ive seen black bear RUN up trees - their claws hit the wood so hard and fast it sounds like someone shaking a bag of tin cans.


22 posted on 06/04/2008 3:06:06 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: george76

PS - What some people wont do for a good walleye dinner.


23 posted on 06/04/2008 3:06:51 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: bboop

I’m going to have to go look in my “survival” books. I thought that it was best to curl up with your head down and hands on your neck. If you bring a bear” gun” though neither is not necessary, huh?


24 posted on 06/04/2008 3:08:45 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: bboop

I’m going to have to go look in my “survival” books. I thought that it was best to curl up with your head down and hands on your neck. If you bring a bear” gun” though neither is not necessary, huh?


25 posted on 06/04/2008 3:11:02 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: george76
for a moment there I thought Obama had taken his white Grandma fishing after he pulled her out from under the bus.
26 posted on 06/04/2008 3:12:55 PM PDT by fish hawk (Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.)
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To: george76

It saddens me to read stories like this, the pain and suffering that the lady went through. But it’s unforgivable that her body wasn’t recovered until the next morning because of the aggressive bear, a bullet was called for.


27 posted on 06/04/2008 3:14:47 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: mad_as_he$$
One just doesn’t realize how liberal Canda has become or how anti gun and hunting parts of it are until you go up there.

It seems they discourage hunting and procession of firearms any chance the get. Besides airports its one of the few place I don't carry. I feel very naked running around the woods up there.

I am wondering why the cops didn't shot the thing down here it would have been very dead very fast.

28 posted on 06/04/2008 3:25:26 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Cat Chases Bear

Should have brought the cat

29 posted on 06/04/2008 3:26:02 PM PDT by BBell
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To: jazusamo

Had the husband been armed, he might have been able to defend his wife earlier.

No telling if she was still alive after the first attack. When the husband left for some police help, the bear likely finished her off if she was not already dead.

No explanation on why the police were apparently not armed, either.


30 posted on 06/04/2008 3:26:46 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: jazusamo

I live in the bush in Alaska. I always carry a extra large canister of pepper spray, have my dogs along to let me know if something is around (they go crazy if there is bear around. The one dog won’t even go down the trail if she
knows there is a bear), and a handgun. I count on the pepper spray more than a gun. I’m usually on a four-wheeler. The bears in Alaska have been very aggressive in the last year. I think it’s because they are meeting up with a lot more people.


31 posted on 06/04/2008 3:27:18 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: vortigern
Let's see... that makes 4 attacks in 18 years?

2005....Jacqueline Perry

32 posted on 06/04/2008 3:48:42 PM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: Cowgirl

I’ve read a couple articles in the last several months about the bear pepper spray and it seems it’s pretty effective, at least according to those articles.

I believe your practice of having your dogs with you is very smart, they at least will warn you of them therefore avoiding a surprise attack.


33 posted on 06/04/2008 3:49:54 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: paul51
I guess it was out of the question to shoot the damn thing

A few years ago an acquaintance and his GF took a several week motorcycle trip from Colorado through Canada, destination Alaska. They planned on camping for the most part. At the border the Canadian customs official asked why they had a .416 Rigby along for the ride. "Well, we'll be camping in bear country for a couple weeks, maybe hundreds of miles from the nearest town," they replied.

"Wrong answer," said Mr. Customs. "Try again."

"We're headed to Alaska."

"Oh, so you're going hunting in Alaska? In that case, you're O.K.

They further had to endure a long lecture, pay some import/license fee, and leave with threats of disappearing into a gulag for their natural lives if they shot anything. I think they plan on taking the boat next time. They don't buy Canadian beer either.

34 posted on 06/04/2008 3:52:55 PM PDT by kitchen (Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
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To: george76; girlangler

wild critter ping.


35 posted on 06/04/2008 3:54:11 PM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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To: jazusamo
Pepper spray is almost guaranteed to halt an attack. I'd rather have a large can of spray than a handgun vs a bear. Of course, a shot gun is the preferred line of defense.
36 posted on 06/04/2008 4:00:06 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: kanawa; proud_yank

Thanks for the link :

These bears have learned to and often prey on humans.”

There have been a number of bear attacks across Canada this summer.

A Manitoba man fended off a black bear in early September, just one week after a black bear killed another man in the province.

There have been four grizzly bear attacks in Alberta since June, including a fatal one on a female jogger near Canmore. And a woman in British Columbia was mauled by a bear in May.


37 posted on 06/04/2008 4:17:51 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; girlangler

I will remember this when girlangler and I go fishing.


38 posted on 06/04/2008 4:19:05 PM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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To: george76
Canada allows hunting rifles, but not hand guns ( I believe ).
Maybe someone else knows exactly.

Either may be owned.
Rifles and shotguns are classified as non-restricted firearms, hand guns as restricted firearms.
Different training courses and licenses are required for possession of the two types.
Restricted firearms are subject to more stringent rules governing transportation and use.

While at this time citizens may own handguns,
whenever there is a murder involving an handgun,
(in the vast majority of cases by someone in illegal possession of the gun)
there arises a great clamor from liberals for banning possession by law-abiding citizens.

39 posted on 06/04/2008 4:20:46 PM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: george76

They aren’t afraid anymore.


40 posted on 06/04/2008 4:22:17 PM PDT by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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