Some days you get the Bear, and some he gets you.

[formercia]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/23/bear.attack.ap/index.html

Hunter seriously injured in bear attack outside Olympic National Park

Sunday, April 23, 2006 Posted: 0711 GMT (1511 HKT)


FORKS, Washington (AP) -- A black bear attacked and seriously injured a hunter on a road just outside Olympic National Park late Saturday, authorities said.

:evilgrin:

[medeak]

1. don' t suppose hunters wear

bear bells eh?

[Mythsaje]

2. Bears HATE to be surprised...

Makes 'em cranky.

[Faygo Kid]

3. But Mr. Ranger, sir! All I wanted was a picanic basket.

Another one smarter than the average bear.

[formercia]

4. Some times, it's just better to have died....

"Hey,Bob!" "Tell us about the time that Bar was draggin' ya offin the Woods until Lester here, cranked a couple of Silvertips into 'em."

[newswolf56]

5. These were wild-turkey hunters, the only thing open now:

http://wdfw.wa.gov/do/newreal/release.php?id=apr1206a

Turkey hunters use shotguns with Number 4 shot -- essentially a heavy upland game load -- not adequate to turn a cougar, much less a bear.

Washington has both black bears and grizzly bears. The Pacific Northwest's black bears are the largest in the world, typically 600-pounds-plus. A grizzly got into a fight with a 1,900-pound Black Angus bull near where I lived in rural Washington. The grizzly won: he tore the bull in half.

Apparently the hunter who killed the bear -- this is unclear from news reports -- did so with a heavy revolver: .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .45 Colt etc. (with the .357 the bare minimum -- no pun intended -- for such work). Bird hunters and fishers in Western states typically (and legally) carry such back-up hardware to cope with bear emergencies and cougar attacks, not to mention the human outlaws who increasingly infest the wilderness -- additional proof of the collapsing U.S. economy.

Moreover deadly and near-deadly wild-animal attacks are on the upswing throughout the United States: the reason only a potential suicide goes into the woods without adequate armament.

The cause of the dramatic increase in such attacks is unclear, but I believe it is further proof that Gaia, specifically our mother Earth, has turned against us for our ongoing rape of the environment and our murderous greed toward one other: the Abrahamic hatred of the environment and the capitalist greed so spawned are proof our species is unsuitable for long-term survival.

That said, the hunter is probably crippled for life and disfigured to the point no woman will ever look upon him with anything other than repugnance: that is the usual fate of bear-attack victims. Thus I find it grotesque there are people who applaud such an incident: grotesque but predictable, given the class hatreds expressed in the hostility toward hunters and firearms owners in general -- a big reason, by the way, the Democratic Party keeps losing elections.

[Sydnie]

6. Did you say BEAR???

:rofl: