Kamchatka Brown Bears can grow to over ten feet tall and weigh in excess of fifteen hundred pounds. They make the black bears in my neck of the woods look tiny in comparison.
Posted on 07/24/2008 9:16:36 PM PDT by gusopol3
Terrified workers at a mining compound in one of Russia's most isolated regions are refusing to go to work after a pack of giant bears attacked and ate two of their colleagues.
At least 30 of the hungry animals have been seen prowling close to the mines in northern Kamchatka in search of food, where the mangled remains of the two workers, both guards, were found last week.
The co-workers at the compound in the Olyotorsky district are trapped and frightened: the gruesome discovery has left them too scared to venture out. A team of snipers, with orders to shoot the bears, is now being dispatched to confront the invasion after government officials authorised an off-season hunt.
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“...ate two Kamchatkan miners!”
Great, now I’m starving.
A “pack” of bears? I thought bears were pretty much loners? “Giant” bears? Aren’t most of them huge? lol
Bears kill Russians. Holy irony Batman!
Geez. Horrible. Don’t go into the woods without a large bore weapon.
Kamchatka is a remote place
A woman in Caliente CA was attacked this morning or yesterday by a bear while walking her dogs. She made it to her car and made it to some paramedics, leaving the dogs to distract the bear while she slipped away.
(Did Karl Rove forget and leave the seismic/weather machine in ‘Bear Mode’ last night? It’s that little switch down by the headlights...)
(Why the bear was walking her dogs, I’ll never know.../Groucho Marx mode off)
These were just displaced Polar Bears trying to find food because all the ice has melted at the North Pole. Don’t blame the bears, it is all due to global warming.
“Today’s the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic...”
Seriously. That’s the first time the Bears have done damage to anybody’s guards since Ditka.
Ohh, golly gee!! I'm appaled. Did anyone check to see if the bears are "endangered?"
Almost spit my drink laughing at that one.
Kamchatka Brown Bears can grow to over ten feet tall and weigh in excess of fifteen hundred pounds. They make the black bears in my neck of the woods look tiny in comparison.
For adult viewing only (strong language) - but appropriate:
http://www.bruddabear.com/photo/BearCavalry.jpg
“Aren’t most of them huge?”
not like Arctodus
nothttp://www.keltationsart.com/arctodus%20short%20face%20bear.htm
This sounds like something out of Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago”, and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that those Russian slave labor camps are still operating.
The article, for instance, speaks of “guards”; without indicating any possibility that any “miners” might be armed.
It wouldnt surprise me. It is sparsely populated and used by the military
King Vanity has a HUGE bear phobia.
Cant even have a picture in the house.
(we have them in the county but none in our exact area but he says how does anyone know for sure)
I just read him this article and he is like yeah SEE!
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