Posted on 09/19/2019 4:56:31 AM PDT by marktwain
A few years ago, I held the widespread belief that in the wild, humans were far more dangerous than bears. Humans are the top predator on the planet. They routinely prey on their own. Far more humans are killed by humans than by bears.
The reality is more complex. As I researched bear attacks and the effectiveness of using handguns to stop those attacks, I found I was mistaken about the comparative danger of humans. Comparing how many people are killed by humans against how many are killed by bears is a misleading metric. There are hundreds of millions of people in North America, and somewhat less than a million bears. About six percent of those are grizzly bears. There are about ten to fifteen thousand polar bears associated with North America. The danger of something is not represented by how many people are killed or hurt, out of the entire human population. Rather, the danger of something is more reliably measured by how many people are killed or hurt per the item in question in relation to exposure to humans.
Very few people die of drowning in the Sahara desert. To be in danger of being killed by a bear, you have to be where the bears are. It can happen in New York City if you break into the zoo. In 1982, a man was killed by a polar bear when he climbed a series of fences to get into the bear cage after hours. In 1987, an eleven-year-old boy was killed by
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My friend who hunts in Montana and Wyoming carries a 10mm
I have used this information to avoid death by bear attack.
Kinda like, stay the hell out of the Southside of Chicago day or night or you will wind up being one of those 28 shooting victims each day.
I remember after Jaws came out.
People were terrified to go to pools.
I go up there every year to camp. Black bears at Yellowstone are pretty mellow. Most are just foraging for food and scatter off once you shine a light on them. I’ve run across several, came within 10 feet of one once. If you just pay attention to your surroundings, respect their space and don’t act like an idiot, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll get attacked by one.
When I’m in the woods around here in the East, I worry about dangerous animals in this order:
Cops
Hunters
Dogs
Bums
Black bears
Coyotes
But really, only the first four.
Given all the debris that's found in sharks' stomachs, I wouldn't rely on what you were "told" no matter how thin I was.
I have not been shot on the South Side of Chicago. I have also not been shot at my local Waffle House, although a number of other people have.
In both cases, “being elsewhere, all the time” is a factor.
I was taut all kinds of ologies in grade school.
Bear incidence in North Carolina. If you Google "Your State Bear Map," you might be surprised.
LOL!
Yikes! Yeah, that would be the kind of thing to really make you reconsider your choices in life.
Meanwhile, in this east Tennessee city, bears have returned from who knows where. That is, a few bears have adapted to living between fringe wooded areas and neighborhoods.
Strangely believe it, the bears have been seen by lots of people but apparently caused no problems. I’m told there are photos on facebook of a female with two cubs spotted on several different occasion
My hats off to you Navy types. I was just watching an old documentary about the Battle of Jutland the other day. ...lost with all hands.... That happens way too often for my liking. Even on D-Day the units with the worst casualties over half got out alive.
Just a handful of BLM retards shooting at cops randomly threw a pretty serious gear in the works not that long ago IIRC. Can you even imagine having tens of millions of folks randomly popping off at the police?
During Just Cause when the Panamanian police realized what was going on they couldnt get out of uniform fast enough. I was told it looked like The Rapture. Empty uniforms shirts and trousers and boots scattered all over the place!
I am more than half tempted to do a Sharknado ping here...
True of nearly every critter except technological humans.
Spinal Tap caries an 11...
The supervisor at Mountain Island Educational State Forest (NC) said (last week) that older male bears are pushing younger males out of the parks and forests into agricultural land and the suburbs. The subject came up because we found bear scat on the gravel road through the forest, which is only a few miles outside the Charlotte city limits.
I HAVE OFTEN SAIDAND WRITTEN: KILL ALL THE DAMN BEARS. They are good for nothing. Let hunters cull the herds of deer, elk, goats, pronghorn, etc.
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