Bear attack.

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It would have After 1992. It was 2003 when Treadwell was eating by that 28 year old Grizzly. When you say you give it up. You mean you quit watching TV ?
 
I worked a year in Alaska not far from where Treadwell was killed. Anywhere you went in that part of the world you went armed. He thought he was some sort of expert. The bears proved him wrong. That was the Brown bears along the coast. They are generally not as bad and the inland Grizzlies in the interior because they have all the fish to eat that time of the year but they are still nothing to mess with. I got put up a tree by one. I know people who ended up spending multiple hours up a tree or on the roof of a cabin.
 
Dave said:
I worked a year in Alaska not far from where Treadwell was killed. Anywhere you went in that part of the world you went armed. He thought he was some sort of expert. The bears proved him wrong. That was the Brown bears along the coast. They are generally not as bad and the inland Grizzlies in the interior because they have all the fish to eat that time of the year but they are still nothing to mess with. I got put up a tree by one. I know people who ended up spending multiple hours up a tree or on the roof of a cabin.
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Four things we never went hiking without: 1 dog, 1 bell, 1 bear mace cannister, 1 firearm. 1 was the minimum.

Better to go up a tree or onto a roof than try to win a downhill footrace.
 
The guy I knew who was mauled up in Alaska had one thing which saved him. He had on a back pack with the chest strap buckled. In the pack was one of those solid metal Stanley thermos. The bear got a hold of the thermos and shock the snot out of him. Bear thought it was killing him but he just killed the thermos. He did get pretty much scalped and multiple cuts and bite marks but he survived.
 
Just heard that the last pictures taken on the man’s cell phone was of the bear climbing onto the hood of the tractor. Taken from the man while sitting in the tractor’s seat.

I would think if the man could have drove off on the tractor if he had time to take pictures and had wanted too especially if he allowed it to climb onto the hood of the tractor.

And if he felt comfortable enough to be taken pictures of it while it was climbing onto the hood. I wonder if he might not have had an encounter with it a time or two before that time.

It only weighing 70 lbs he might have felt it was still a cub and wouldn’t thought of it as much of a threat. Part of the human food that was found in the bears stomach was the man’s face and flesh with whatever else people food that was found in its stomach.

It was said that the flesh on the man’s skull had been cleaned or eaten off so complete that his skull looked like it would had it of been a skeleton. That’s probably why the articles described the man’s injuries as un sustainable and had no chance of living.

And it’s said that this happened on this man’s that owns the property where they hold the Walkaruseia music festival every year and that is a 2 or 300 acre open field along with a lot of wooded grounds on it. And this peace of private property is surrounded by National Forests.
 
So I hear there was a second one in AR? What are you guys doing down there to those poor bears?
 
SmokinM said:
So I hear there was a second one in AR? What are you guys doing down there to those poor bears?
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Medical marijuana. Bears get the munchies too.

This is very strange. I’ve never heard of a bear attack in Arkansas in my life. Two dead in one month. Game and Fish says this hasn’t happened since 1892.
 
SmokinM said:
So I hear there was a second one in AR? What are you guys doing down there to those poor bears?
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Getting to be less & less room for bears to live. More houses being built, more remote land being bull dozed under. City is moving in on what the bears used to call home. Forest Service is planting more pine Timber and getting to be less acorns to feed the bears.
 
504RP said:
Getting to be less & less room for bears to live. More houses being built, more remote land being bull dozed under. City is moving in on what the bears used to call home. Forest Service is planting more pine Timber and getting to be less acorns to feed the bears.
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That, and black bears are known to stalk a human as something to be eaten.
 
504RP said:
Do you remember Timothy Treadwell aka the Grizzly man ? That ended up killed and ate by the Grizzly bears he supposedly had become an expert on. And would spend ever year during the Salmon run where the Grizzly bears gathered to feed on the Salmon.

He was on the David Letterman show and David asked him if wether or not what he was doing was going to be something we would hear about him being eaten by a bear.

And that’s exactly what happened to him. The bush pilots plane had problems that had to be fixed before he could go pick Treadwell and his girlfriend up where they were camped by the grizzly bears. And radio to Treadwell and told him it would be I think it was 3 days latter to pick him up. And when the pilot got there he found Treadwells camp tore a part and saw one bear dragging a back pack.

The pilot and Game wardens ended up killing some of the grizzlies and found footage of Treadwell screaming for help into the camera as he was being attacked. They found Treadwell and his girlfriends remains in several of the bear’s stomach’s that they had shot.
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I remember that and I believe they made a movie of it
 
I don't know where in the world it happened, but there was an online article about a girl talking to her mother on cellphone, telling her mom that she had been attacked/mauled by a bear, and now it was starting to eat her. Definitely hard to read. (It may have been outside the USA, I just don't remember,)

(It was reportedly in Eastern Siberia and her name was Olga Moskalova. age 21. )

Mum, they're eating me

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Timothy Treadwell (the Bear Man) didn't know a lot but seemed to think he was redefining bear psychology for the rest of us. What he was really doing was acclimating bears that rarely saw a human being to human presence. And it was only a matter of time that a bear would test their comfort zone with what looked like an easy meal. Sadly, his girlfriend was left behind to run some film and become dessert.
 
All this with bears is got me to thinking I had a lot closer call than I thought I had a few years ago down in the field at a garden plot.
I had several experiences, with bears in the area but one in particular could have been bad.
I went down one evening, this is probably about a half mile from the house to a garden plot to pick some Roma II beans.
I have to get down and crawl around picking beans because if I stoop or bend over to pick I get dizzy and headaches, so I sacrifice my knees to avoid that.
About 250 ft rows, and I was on the outside row next to a grown up fence row. Trees along the fence row then honeysuckle bushes in front of those and it makes for several feet of complete cover, especially since I hadn’t had cattle grazing that field for a few years.
That was when I could still hear somewhat decent. I started picking and heard something crack some branches in the distance probably around the other end of the row in the bushes.
It went again after a few minutes I could tell it was coming towards me. Every once in a while I’d hear some small branches break like something big walking on the underbrush. I thought it’s probably a bear. And I foolishly thought well every thing I’m told about the black bears is that thee will run from you.
I’d seen bear activity down there and seemed like they would always stay hid or run away pretty fast. So I kept on crawling around picking beans. I’d stop and try to listen when I’d hear movement.
I was getting a little unnerved when I realized it was getting very close.
I couldn’t see anything for the dense undergrowth, and I was figuring it had gotten within 20-30 feet of me and I hadn’t heard any movement for what seemed like a while probably a just a minute or two. Then all of a sudden right behind me I heard a short growl, low and gutteral. I was down on the ground and I just froze. I didn’t look around just flat out froze in place for quite a while, never heard anything else or any movement. After a while I got up and backed away with my pan of beans to the truck.
I read something later that said basically to do the exact opposite of what I did when encountering a black bear. It said to make noise and make yourself appear bigger and there I’d been hunkered down and motionless.
 

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