Man fights bear and lives

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http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/story.asp?id=039EE32B-C794-4C2D-930C-64616D9A66CD

Now that's a MAN

Actually the story about the bear is sad. Poor little fella.

[Maple]

1. Ahem

a woman just did the same thing a short time ago.

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3. really? where?...I missed that story

[Maple]

8. Woman fends off bear attack in her garage.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0903/24bear.html

Story, photo etc

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11. yowza

That is a situation I fear happeining where I live.

[JailBush]

2. That sounds pretty fishy to me, but it's possible.

I worked with a guy in Barrow, Alaska who stopped a charging polar bear with a swing of his rifle after the it failed to fire. Someone else then shot the bear. That's a pretty amazing feat.

Ever hear of Hugh Glass, the mountain man who was attacked by a grizzly in the Great Plains? He killed the bear with his knife but was so badly torn up his comrades left him for dead. He revived and began crawling back towards civilization, living off the land and driven by a lust for revenge.

As I recall, he made it back home, tracked down those who deserted him, then forgave them.

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4. when was that?

What kind of sick bastards would do that?

[roguevalley]

5. one of the men who abandoned Glass was Kit Carson.

[happyslug]

9. To early for Kit Carson

The Story I heard that one of the persons who left him was a 17 year old Jim Bridger, on his first trip to the Rockies. Till Bridger went blind in the early 1870s, he stayed in the Mountains and had a reputation NEVER to leave anyone behind till they actually died. This is even when people said the person was hopeless. These subsequet actions of Jim Bridger would be explained by this story, when Jim Bridger was a young kid.

The expedition was the 1821 General William Ashley's Upper Missouri Expedition and Jim Bridger was only 17 at that time:

For more on Kit Carson (1809-1868) see:

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/carson.htm


For more on Jim Bridger see:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/jimbrid.html

http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/txt6/jbrdgr.html

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12. how many times in your life

Do you have to wait with someone in the wilderness until they die? That's an odd rep he has

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6. Here's a picture taken during the fight!

no not really

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7. ANd this one at the wiegh in

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10. Bear's specs

"It stood about five foot seven inches to Hirsch's five feet nine inches and weighed 200 pounds, according to conservation officers who inspected it."

Psssh...I coulda taken that guy. Sounds like he was old and starving, too.

[karlschneider]

13. Bullshit. Small (200 lb) bears don't attack people. No way, no how.

Hell, the gypsies from Hungary and thereabouts have kept brown bears as entertainers, taught them to ride bicycles. I was friends with a bear about that size 20 or so years ago. Sorry, I don't buy this fable.

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15. It's not a fable

This was in a major newspaper. Say what you want about the media...but huge dailies don't just make shit up.

Friends with a bear..tell more!

[sujan]

14. shit like this happens as we go along destroying their habitats