Mont. woman fends off bear attack with zucchini

yahoo.com ^ | Thu Sep 23, 11:19 am ET | Staff

[Red Badger]

FRENCHTOWN, Mont. – Police say a Montana woman fended off a bear attack with an unlikely weapon — a zucchini.

Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli says a 200-pound black bear attacked one of the woman's dogs just after midnight Wednesday on the back porch of her home about 15 miles west of Missoula.

When the woman, whom police did not name, tried to separate the animals, the bear bit her in the leg.

Maricelli says the woman reached for the nearest object at hand on the porch's railing — a large zucchini that she had harvested from her garden.

The woman flung the vegetable at the bear, striking it and forcing it to flee.

Maricelli says the woman did not need medical attention. Wildlife officials were trying to locate the bear on Thursday.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The woman flung the vegetable at the bear, striking it and forcing it to flee.

I'm glad it worked, but I dunno about the "forcing" it to flee part. It might not work the next time.

[Larry Lucido]

A zucchini usually gets me running too.

[Hacklehead]

Next time I’m in bear country I’ll to pack a zucchinni.

[I cannot think of a name]

Further proof that vegetables can save your life.

Now a man armed with a banana...........

[Black Agnes]

Garden list ping?

[IrishCatholic]

Bookmark for the wife.
Now maybe she will believe me when I say not even a bear in the woods would eat one.
Perhaps you know of a lima bean story? They are even worse.

[bigbob]

Is the zucchini gonna be OK?

[righttackle44]

This woman had better watch her backside. Even as we read, black ops specialists are being dispatched to take her and her squash into protective custody. Zucchini now has Taliban Terminator written all over it. All they're going to have to do is design a shipping case to get it overseas.

[nevergore]

The Anti-Zuchinni people will show up on this thread soon.....

You’ll get my zuchinni when you pry it from my dead cold hans.....

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dream date ping.

[RedMDer]

Zucchini is healthier than I thought!

[GonzoGOP]

Now a man armed with a banana...........

Well I know the general rule is to use a tiger against a mob armed with strawberries.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The Brady group are organizing a section to take away your zuchini rights as we speak. There is no way a zuchini is covered under the 2nd amendment!!!

[Red Badger]

Is the zucchini gonna be OK?

No, sadly it was squashed...........

[Vigilanteman]

This reminds me of the joke about the farm wife who called the extension office to report that zucchini was growing all over her garden and wondering what she could do with it.

Replied the agent "Treat the vines with 2-4-D or Roundup."

[Arthur McGowan]

Since when did the Brady nutjobs care what the Second Amendment says?

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Just spent 3 weeks in Montana and was carrying a .44 mag and a large can of bear spray. Who knew I was totally mis-armed?

[DJlaysitup]

Having a pumpkin handy is a good idea too...keeps you from being gourd.

[Don W]

I’m NOT alone! Even bears hate zucchini!