Posted on 08/18/2008 1:26:08 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Authorities cut open a slain bear and found a shoe lost by a Florida man while fighting off a bear that attacked his 8-year-old son in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The footwear was discovered in the black bear's stomach during a necropsy at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center, Smokies spokeswoman Nancy Gray said Monday.
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John Pala, a 43-year-old health insurance salesman from Boca Raton with no backwoods experience, literally ran out of his shoes racing to the aid of his young son Evan when the bear pounced on the boy during a day hike Aug. 11 along the popular Rainbow Falls trail.
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Rangers killed the suspected bear a few hours later in the same place where the Pala family was attacked. They shot the animal when it charged them. One of Pala's shoes was found nearby.
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Authorities said the attack was unprovoked, though Pala said their clothes might have smelled like fried chicken from a meal an hour earlier.
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Politically correct stupidity.
One of the more lethal flavors of stupidity.
Thank you!
I'm waiting for a rabid beaver attack thread, myself...
Well, dice said “bruin”, and I just stopped reading a few gymnastics stories on Yahoo’s Olympics coverage, so it was a natural match, LOL.
Guide carried a .22 pistol. Fired a round in the air to frighten off a Polar Bear that threatened him and his hiker. Then shot the bear four or five times when it charged and attacked him. The Polar Bear then got annoyed and killed him and messed up the hiker, too.
According to the loony-left narrative, it isn't the bear's fault, evil mankind has been introducing strange noises and environmentally damaging chemicals into the environment, making adolescent male bears even more truculent than normal. Bear good, mankind, bad.
Kept thinking, "Hey how about a .454 Casull, a.44 Magnum, a .357, or better yet a trusty 30.06!"
If the shoes were made of genuine leather PETA folks will have double case to reap litigation bucks. <-— no pun intended. ;-)
You do not have to outrun them, just shoot them in the knee.
“...their clothes might have smelled like fried chicken from a meal an hour earlier.”
Mmmmmmmm....human....tastes just like chicken!
Note to self- when going hiking, do not wear KFC cologne.
A Russian scientist and a Czechoslovakian scientist had spent their whole lives studying the majestic grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study these wondrous beasts.
Finally, their request was granted and they immediately flew to New York and then on west to Yellowstone. They reported to the local ranger station and were told that it was the grizzly mating season and it was much too dangerous to go out and study the animals.
They pleaded that this was their only chance. Finally the ranger relented. The Russian and the Czech were given cell phones and told to report in each and every day.
For several days they called in, and then nothing was heard from the two scientists. The rangers mounted a search party and found the scientists’ camp completely ravaged. No sign of the missing men.
They then followed the trail of a male and a female bear. They found the female and decided they must kill the animal to find out if she had eaten the scientists because they feared an international incident.
They killed the female and cut open the bear’s stomach… only to find the remains of the Russian.
One ranger turned to the other and said, “You know what this means, don’t you?”
“Of course,” the other ranger nodded. “The Czech is in the male.”
“......has little bells in it.”
That’s the punchline I remember. Heh. Haven’t heard it for years.
The man should commend this kindly act, for it seems the bear was just trying to save his sole.
It wasn't for the bears, it was for one of the other fisherman's knees.
I never did go fishing with him...
Evan must be British. I threw stones at a bear and all I got was this bloody T-shirt.
I might need a transfusion and some stitches, but bear steak would have been on the evening menu.
So far this summer, 9 coons, 17 possums, and LOTS of squirrels.
Mmmmm. Eating nature one fuzzy creature at a time.
/johnny
Here's how you can identify different types of Bears.
When you see a Bear, climb a tree.
If it climbs the tree and eats you, it's a Black Bear.
If it pushes the tree over and eats you, it's a Grizzly.
If there are no trees and your standing in ice and snow and a white bear eats you, it's a Polar Bear.
I hope this helps.
If it takes your picture, it’s a Kodiak???
Groan!
That joke reached Maine in 1946. You Vermont people ought to get your own Readers Digest subscriptions instead of relying on those left behind by Noo Yawk and MA summer people.
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