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Bear Biologist Makes Hyperbolic Claim about Bear Mauling and Lightning Strikes
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| 13 May, 2020
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 05/15/2020 5:57:16 AM PDT by marktwain
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Most places there are a significant population of bears, you are more likely to be attacked by a bear than to be killed by lightning.
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posted on
05/15/2020 5:57:16 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Bears, beets, bolts of lightning.
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:02:28 AM PDT
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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To: marktwain
The odds of getting hit by lightening go up on a golf course, though they’re still very low (~1 in 600,000).
To: LittleBillyInfidel
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:15:02 AM PDT
by
bwest
To: marktwain
Yet bears are never struck by lightning. Makes you think...
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:15:41 AM PDT
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bwest
To: bwest
Yet bears are never struck by lightning. Makes you think...Pair that with getting hit while eating cheese and you have something.
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05/15/2020 6:17:06 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: bwest
Yet bears are never struck by lightning. Makes you think...
Says who?
Animals, in general, have high accident rates.
They simply are not generally recorded.
When animals are injured in the wild, they tend to be killed and eaten fairly quickly.
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:24:52 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: marktwain
Carrying a firearm can’t save me from a lightning strike, but it can be of use against a bear attack.
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05/15/2020 6:26:55 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
To: G Larry
One of the major reasons people want to discredit the usefulness of firearms to defend against bear attacks, I believe, is to remove the idea of the usefulness of firearms in self defense, generally.
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:37:44 AM PDT
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marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: bwest
Tesla was going to bring bear into the cage but ran out of money.
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:39:30 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Democrat politicians prefer death)
To: marktwain
Same odds as getting the Wuhan flu.
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posted on
05/15/2020 6:42:02 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(Suppose you were an idiot, suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself, Mark Twain)
To: marktwain
I saw something on TV where a herd of reindeer were killed by a lightning strike. I saw a lightning strike on a mountain across my canyon one night. It was awesome. It started a brushfire and by the time the Forrest service fire department got there the skies opened up and put it out. It’s the dry lightning that is the problem.
To: marktwain
Yup. A gun is your best defense. We have lots of bears around here and they love the trash cans. I don’t give a crap. If I am threatened by a bear then I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
To: neverevergiveup
The odds of getting hit by lightening go up on a golf course
Unless youre holding up a 3 iron. Not even God can hit a 3 iron.
To: marktwain
What are the odds of getting struck by lightning while getting mauled by a bear?
To: marktwain
Actually, it was a joke...
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posted on
05/15/2020 7:22:19 AM PDT
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bwest
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
05/15/2020 7:23:14 AM PDT
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bwest
To: bwest
I thought it probably was, but it was a good way to make a point.
Thank you.
LOL
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posted on
05/15/2020 7:29:13 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: 1Old Pro
Pair that with getting hit while eating cheese and you have something. That goes up exponentially if you are eating cheese in the shower.
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05/15/2020 7:38:32 AM PDT
by
BlackbirdSST
(Is it time Claire?)
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