[Slicksadick]

They're both screaming. She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back. He asks her to hit the bear,"
I guess that love turned to hate pretty quick huh?

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Hi mom!

[billorites]

"She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back. He asks her to hit the bear"

That's gotta suck.

[Question_Assumptions]

Unfortunately, this became "Among Grizzlies: Dying With Wild Bears in Alaska."

[Centurion2000]

Now someone needs to work this into a heavy metal tune.

Kinda like "Get outta my room, and Leave ME Alone"

[freekitty]

I don't think it works real well telling a bear you love it.

[Sharpshot613]

Alone in Alaska with nary a firearm between them. Does tragedy disqualify one for Darwin award contention? I hope not.

[aruanan]

We don't live in a Disney world populated by singing, vegetarian, sans anus animals. Too bad more people, even those who should know better, don't take things more seriously.

[new cruelty]

This reminds me of that team of volcano experts that died while driving up to an active volcano.

[Klickitat]

I don't know who came up with that stupid play dead concept. I remember there was a photographer in Denali park who was photographing a bear. When it got close to him he flopped down on the ground. The bear, apparently interested by this action, came over and took a few bites out of him.

Anyone who messes with bears is an idiot and a darwin award nominee. My policy was if I couldn't carry a gun in an area I'm not hiking there.

Here's an old joke.

Park Service Advisory: Hikers are advised to carry pepper spray and bells when going into bear country. The sound of the bells should scare the bears away, and if that doesn't work the pepper spray will.

If you come across bear scat you can tell the species of bear by what is in the excrement. Black bear excrement will have berry seeds, and small animal bones. Grizzly excrement will smell strongly of pepper and have fragments of bell and hiking gear in it.

[Ditter]

Some bear experts these people were.

[GulliverSwift]

She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back. He asks her to hit the bear,

A liberal animal activist hitting a poor animal?

[SJSAMPLE]

In case it hasn't been posted:

Hold my BEAR alert.

Get it?


I kill me.

[Pukin Dog]

"Now, you just play dead, until or unless the bear takes a bite out of my ass. If that happens, I want you to stand up and say: Hey Bear! Then I want you to hit it, so that it will start to eat you instead of me, while I run for a tree. I promise to remember you as a generous person."

[Sloth]

When I was in college, a couple of exchange students from Warsaw and Prague went camping out in the Ozarks in Devil's Den State Park. When they didn't come back, a big search party was organized, and eventually the camp was found all torn apart by bears.

Park rangers and animal control officials found a mated pair of bears nearby, and killed both to see if they were responsible for the students' disappearance. The coroner examined the female bear's gastric and intestinal contents and verified that they included some of the Polish student's remains. So, even before they confirmed it forensically, they felt pretty confident in promising "the Czech's in the male."

[Revolting cat!]

THIS JUST IN:

Informed sources have informed that the Las Vegas tiger sent a private congratulatory message to the Alaskan bear.

[speekinout]

She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back.

It's been a few years since I've been to Alaska, but I thought you were supposed to yell at grizzlies, and curl up for black bears. Is it the other way around?

[Jorge]

Seems like a bad week for those who like to get up close and personal with wild predatory beasts.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping for more on the bear story.

[FreedomPoster]

Earlier thread on this story with many worthwhile posts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997103/posts