Bear in the Woods

**Barry_White** · 13th June 2004, 04:47 PM

This was sent to me in an e-mail by a friend.

Read all the text first then open attachments....very

interesting....

The following (first two) pictures are of a guy who works for

the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.

He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear

charged him from about 50 yards away.

The guy unloaded his 7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear

and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive

so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.

The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds.

It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head.

It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.

Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him

keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted,

and placed on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's

of the risks involved when in the wild).

Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife

Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans

in the past 72 hours.

His last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the third picture

below.

The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had

originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied.

Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker.

The other body has not been found.

Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly

with four shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along

with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body) it only wounded the

bear - and probably angered it.

The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's

own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.

Think about this - If you are an average size man; You would be

level with the bear's belly button when he stood upright, the bear would

look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional

perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs,could

walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk

up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.

**DPB** · 13th June 2004, 06:19 PM

UNBEARABLE! and UNBELIEVABLE!

**Sir Stinkalot** · 13th June 2004, 06:53 PM

Its a pitty the bear didn't eat the stupid tosser.

**bitingmidge** · 13th June 2004, 08:02 PM

And to think it could have been avoided if only they were wearing one of THESE

P

**ozwinner** · 13th June 2004, 08:26 PM

And once a bear has attacked one doofus with a bell, it will sound like the ice cream man comeing to the bear.

Oooooh listen honey, more food comeing.

Cheers, Mr Softserve

**Wayne Davy** · 13th June 2004, 08:37 PM

You may want to check this out:
http://www.alaska.com/activities/bea...-4863089c.html

It was a very big bear but did not kill anyone and the guy that shot it was a deer hunter.

**Tristan Croll** · 24th June 2004, 03:09 PM

I've seen that third picture before, where it was claimed it was a jogger attacked by dogs in (I believe) Central Park.

**Zed** · 24th June 2004, 03:33 PM

where does a bear sleep/sh$t ? wherever it wants to...

poor bear - theres far too many hunters and too few bears, in fact you could say we barely have any bears left.

**Rachel** · 1st August 2004, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

And to think it could have been avoided if only they were wearing one of THESE

P

LOL

**kiwigeo** · 2nd August 2004, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

And to think it could have been avoided if only they were wearing one of THESE

P

My wife made me wear one of those bells when we were out bush walking in northern Japan. She told me it was to scare off the bears but I suspect it was so she could find me when wandered off and got lost in the undergrowth....or more likely she enjoyed watching all her girlie mates laughing their heads off at the hapless foreigner stumbling around with the bright pink bell stuck to his backpack.

I think if a bell is going to be really effective you'd want it to be a really BIG bell....that way you could hide under it when threatened by a bear.

Or how about having a large leg of lamb handy...as the bear came tearing towards you, you could throw the leg of lamb at it and then run like hell!!

Or even better...tie the leg of lamb to your wifes backpack and let her deal with the bear.

**journeyman Mick** · 2nd August 2004, 12:50 PM

Which reminds me:
Q: why must you always SCUBA dive with a buddy and carry a knife?
A: if you are menaced by a shark whip out your knife, slash your buddy and swim away quickly! :eek:

Mick

**Driver** · 2nd August 2004, 01:06 PM

Two blokes are filming the wildlife in the Serengeti National Park in Northern Kenya.

They have a pride of lions in their viewfinder. One of the male lions looks up, spots the camera crew, roars loudly and starts to move slowly towards them. He's about 250 metres away.

One of the blokes starts to take off his boots and puts on a pair of very high-tech cross-trainers. They've got all the latest gizmos: flexible laces, air-cushion heels, go-faster stripes, the lot.

His mate says: "You don't seriously think they're going to help you outrun a bloody lion, do ya?"

"Mate," he says. "As long as they help me outrun you, I'm happy."

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