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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That ain't no bear.
THIS IS A BEAR!
Ain't nothing goin' to stop him when he's hungry.
Not me.
Sorry, but one of my friends blew him up years ago with a cherry bomb. ;-)
Published on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:40 PM PDT
PIUTE-CA, at approximately 10 a.m. , on Tuesday July 22, a local resident out walking her 2 dogs was attacked by a bear. Unfortunately one of the dogs was killed; the other was able to escape. The woman received severe lacerations to her head and face in the attack. However, she was able to walk back to her car and drive 3 to 4 miles to the local Kern county Fire Station, Station 78 in Piute.
The fire crew provided medical care to the woman for her injuries. A Medi-Vac helicopter was used to transport the victim to UCLA hospital in Los Angeles.
Kern County Sheriff Deputies and Animal Control Officers arrived on scene to try and identify the exact location of the attack.
Anyway, she tells us one spring that during the winter, a bear had come through her front door and began coming into the bedroom where she was under the covers at the time. She awoke with the noise of the bear and grabbed a bedside rifle and shot the creature almost point blank.
She said she tried to contact Fish and game or park rangers or who-ever to come and get the carcass, but after three days of no one coming out to her place, she took matters into her own hands and ended up with a bear rug.
I believed the story, she was an Annie Oakley type, but definetly not as homely. There was a guy who fancied himself a Mountain Man and took up with her, but only last a short while because four hours from the trailhead and then a two hour trip to the liqour store after that was too much to be that far from ciggies and booze...
She would tell us how she had to use pack mules to get anything to her cabin...what a gal, wonder what happened to her...
...... it will make it less painful when the bear takes that gun from you and shoves it up your backside!
How are they supposed to accomplish this feet? (pun intended)
SOMETIMES YOU EAT THE BEAR.
SOMETIMES THE BEAR EATS YOU
This is what sets the US Citizen apart from the world, at least THIS American!
I'll be danged if I would wait for some guberment teat sucker to tell me its OK to kill a danger to me or anyone near me!!!
I recently saw an article referencing marauding monkeys.... ya, right.
Sweeeeeet
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