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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Misread your post. Born in the 70’s.
“Wonder if some folks were feeding the bears since they usually try to avoid people. “
I’m sandwiched between federal and state forests. The bears hide out there during the day and then raid garbage cans at night. There’s no such thing as a bear-proof garbage can. (Well, I suppose if you could buy a surplus tank that would work.) I don’t know of anybody who voluntarily feeds them. The cat always tells me when one is around. (Sweetie? Why are you under the bed?)
The local paper down there had a bear accident make front page news on one of the days I visited.
Well we all have to live within our childhoods, few of look to the years before us.
My sister lives in Navarre, Fl. Her neighborhood backs up to a wooded area and there is a black bear that lives in there that is constantly getting into trash cans.
Paul Kariya was a Black Bear.
Too funny.
Yes, Maine has a very good hockey program.
I live in the Atlanta suburbs, about half-way between Atlanta and Athens.
A (small) black bear was hit in traffic on I-85 near here
a few years back and it caused all kinds of uproar.
(the enviro whacko’s were weapin’ and wailin’
and gnashing their teeth)
They were more worried about the fate of the bear
than that of the injured humans.
Is this one of those times where they try to find the offending bear and kill it or relocate it? I hope they don’t have to kill it. People who live in this area should already know they are near bear habitats, unless the bears have just began to spread out. That’s possible if the area is in a drought.
Racist reporters! Couldn’t they have just said they were all dressed in dark fur coats?
Grizzly Addams would have a few things to say about this.
It’s like the dead trees that are mourned for by the eco-nuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
Bunch of stupid hippies.
30-06 and a back hoe. Three months of rain to wash all the dirt and wax mixed honey into the soil.
If Haggerty was still on coke he'd of taken ALL the bears on at the same time!
OMFG
Man!
WORST DAY EVER!!
I’d hate to have to grab my 45-70 whenever I took out the trash.
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