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  • Bear kills man

    07/21/2007 8:32:20 PM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies · 422+ views
    AP ^ | 21/07/07 | AP
    A bear fatally mauled a man yesterday in a town near the Carpathian Mountains, authorities said. The 50-year-old man was walking in a pasture when the bear attacked him near his house in Zarnesti, a city about 240 kilometres north of Bucharest, news television Realitatea TV reported. On Tuesday, the same bear is believed to have attacked two households, injuring one man. The bear ran away after being poked with a pitchfork by the man's wife. A shepherd also complained to authorities that the bear killed eight of his sheep.
  • Bear Encounter Strands Cranberry-Pickers

    10/03/2007 4:34:51 PM PDT · by george76 · 2 replies · 177+ views
    It was a hostage situation with a twist, and a happy ending. A group of cranberry-pickers spent a night stranded on an island in a Russian swamp Wednesday after an encounter with a bear prevented them from leaving before dark, a ranger said. Twelve people, including a pregnant woman, were harvesting the berries on an island near the town of Malaya Vishera, in the Novgorod region 280 miles northwest of Moscow, when a brown bear approached them, emergency official Sergei Orlov. The pickers - most of them Gypsies, or Roma, from the area - set up a bonfire, shooed the...