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Montana woman fends off bear attack with zucchini
Associated Press ^ | 09-23-2010 | Matt Volz

Posted on 09/23/2010 6:00:03 PM PDT by Redcitizen

HELENA, Mont. – A Montana woman fended off a bear trying to muscle its way into her home Thursday by pelting the animal with a large piece of zucchini from her garden.

The woman suffered minor scratches and one of her dogs was wounded after tussling with the 200-pound bear.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bear; food; funny; hilarity; humor; hunting; laughter; nature; recipes; squash; vegetables; zucchini
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She was bearly wounded. I guess having your vegetables is good for you.
1 posted on 09/23/2010 6:00:10 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Sometimes the bear gets the zucchini, sometimes the zucchini gets the bear . . . .


2 posted on 09/23/2010 6:00:53 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Redcitizen

This is gonna be an interesting thread...


3 posted on 09/23/2010 6:01:47 PM PDT by ozark hilljilly
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To: Redcitizen

I guess if you don’t have a 40 lb squash, a zucchini will do.


4 posted on 09/23/2010 6:01:56 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Redcitizen

200lbs! She’s lucky he didn’t squash her.


5 posted on 09/23/2010 6:02:01 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( A window seat, a jug of elderberry wine, and thou.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Bear got punk[i]n’d


6 posted on 09/23/2010 6:03:21 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 611 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Redcitizen

Again?? Second time today!


7 posted on 09/23/2010 6:03:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Redcitizen

Just add some potatoes and onions...make a good soup.


8 posted on 09/23/2010 6:03:45 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

What caliber zuke? I don’t know if I have any veggies big enough in the lil’ garden here where I’d feel safe against a bear attack.


9 posted on 09/23/2010 6:04:58 PM PDT by WAW (Which enumerated power?)
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To: Redcitizen

After the attack she was singing “I am strong, I have my vegetables, I am woman.”


10 posted on 09/23/2010 6:05:23 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Defund, repeal, investigate, impeach, convict, jail, celebrate.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

You put the peas around the hole in the ice. When the bear comes to take a peas, you kick him in the ice hole.


11 posted on 09/23/2010 6:05:34 PM PDT by healy61
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To: Larry Lucido

Check out the link.... “ By MATT VOLZ, Associated Press Writer Matt Volz, Associated Press Writer – 20 mins ago”


12 posted on 09/23/2010 6:05:48 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Lovely story, really. A little miss muffet, a little goldilocks, a little mary quite contrary, a little farmer macgregor.


13 posted on 09/23/2010 6:05:58 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( A window seat, a jug of elderberry wine, and thou.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican

She sounds like quite a lady. Is she also hot?


14 posted on 09/23/2010 6:06:00 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Redcitizen

*facepalm*

Ban assault zucchini!
It has a flash hider and bayonet lug, a folding vine, and it can be hidden in plain sight!
/ sarc.


15 posted on 09/23/2010 6:06:31 PM PDT by Darksheare (I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
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To: Redcitizen

Zucchini repels me as well. Smart bear.


16 posted on 09/23/2010 6:06:39 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

The bear was a vegetarian.

(Good pun on her being squashed)


17 posted on 09/23/2010 6:08:21 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Why was the zucchini so readily available


18 posted on 09/23/2010 6:09:09 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: Redcitizen

Is this a gay thread?


19 posted on 09/23/2010 6:09:11 PM PDT by ponygirl (TEA people: First we take out the RINOS. Then we finish off the Socialists.)
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To: Redcitizen

“Back off! I have a zucchini, and I’m not afraid to use it!”


20 posted on 09/23/2010 6:10:35 PM PDT by FreeKeys (COPY EVERYTHING IN THE BOX ON MY PROFILE PAGE AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK !!)
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