Posted on 04/13/2014 2:43:20 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
The hunt is on today for a black bear who mauled a woman at her home in an upscale central Florida neighborhood, leaving her with injuries to her face, legs and torso and requiring her to get 40 stitches to the head.
Terri Frana of Lake Mary, Fla., went to her garage Saturday evening to grab bicycles for her children to ride down to their neighbor's house when the attack happened, according to her husband, Frank Frana.
As soon as the children left, Frana, 45, saw two bears in the driveway. She walked to the patio area where there were five bears eating trash that they had pulled out of the garage, her husband said.
"The bear got up on [its] hind legs and started to maul her, opened its jaws and put her head in the mouth and dragged her towards the woods," Frank Frana said. "Somehow she was able to pull herself out."
"The bears were various sizes so we think it's probably cubs of different maturity and perhaps a mama bear," the Seminole County Sheriff's Office told ABC News.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said there was at least one bear involved in the attack but couldn't corroborate the report that there had been five bears.
Frana managed to get inside the house, said her husband. Her son found her collapsed in the living room and called 911. She was then taken to a local hospital where she was treated for at least three bear bites and several cuts all over her body.
Frana was released from the hospital Sunday morning and is recovering at home, her husband said.
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I noticed you mentioned bear spray of which we have the real bear spray.
I happened to ask a ranger if he thought that bear spray was any good he said sure.
My next question was how to use it correctly.
He said three simple rules:
1) Always have it on your person,
2) Wait til the bear is within 15 feet,
3) spray it directly into your eyes...
so you can’t see the bear when he actually eats you.
Lurking’
I know, I know....first pic is *not* from Floridah.....it’s from Incline Village, North Lake Tahoe area. ;)
“Sounds like she was intentionally bothering them.”
ORLY?
“That is blaming the victim with a vengeance.” Judge Posner, City of Willowbrooke v. Olech.
Given the speed, power, and perpetual hunger of large bodied predators, any policy which is not based upon gunpowder will result in needless human suffering.
“When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.”
Alternately you can simply spray at a bear with a strong wind at his back.
Gentle Ben starred Ron “Opie” Howard’s younger brother Clint.
You know I always got Ben and Clint confused, until I figured out that Ben was the smarter one.
“Evacuate Lake Mary, Fla. and leave it to the bears. It’s the only reasonable solution.” /sarc
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit....it’s the only way to be sure.
LOL, I like it.
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