Bloodied
and dazed after being slashed by the claws of a brown bear, a woman struggled
to walk 2 miles along a curvy, hilly trail to find someone to help her. The
woman, who has asked that her identity not be released, was hospitalized in
stable condition Monday, a day after the attack on an Anchorage military base,
officials said. She suffered lacerations to her neck, arms and legs. The woman
was jogging with her soldier husband Sunday morning on the northwestern part of
the sprawling Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The couple became separated, and
as she jogged down a hill near a bend, she came upon a bear leaving a trail at
the same time. Air Force Maj. Angela Webb said they startled each other, and
the bear, with two cubs in tow, assumed a defensive position in the largely
wooded, remote area. “The bear attacked her, defending her babies, seeing her
as a threat,” said Mark Sledge, senior conservation law enforcement officer at
the base. The bear knocked down the woman and took at least one swipe at her.
Officials still haven’t interviewed the woman and don’t know if she was knocked
unconscious or played dead until the animal left the area. Playing dead is the
appropriate response when meeting a female bear protecting cubs, Sledge said…..To
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My Take - We have to disabuse ourselves of the idea that wild animals are Disney characters. They're violent and.....let's get this right......they will kill people, they will kill livestock, they will kill children, and they will kill pets. In short - settlers killed them when they moved into an area because they weren’t' safe to have around. Why is that so hard to understand?
My Take - We have to disabuse ourselves of the idea that wild animals are Disney characters. They're violent and.....let's get this right......they will kill people, they will kill livestock, they will kill children, and they will kill pets. In short - settlers killed them when they moved into an area because they weren’t' safe to have around. Why is that so hard to understand?
A number of years ago there was a “nature is warm and
fuzzy” nut by the name of Timothy Treadwell who proclaimed grizzly bears were
all misunderstood and needed be embraced….because he did “research” that
demonstrated “he could get close to bears with his gentle and non-threatening
personality and communicate with them. Treadwell boasted that he could
understand their communication and they could understand him. He claimed that
he knew 21 bear vocalizations and various different body languages. He wanted
to see if he could be accepted by 1,000 pound wild coastal brown bears.”
He was hyped by the leftist celebrity crowd and gained as substantial amount of notoriety. But it was like every other phony philosophical flavor of the day perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. His name wasn’t even Treadwell….it was Dexter…… and everything he said, and everything he said he did was a phony as his name. Well reality finally caught up to Dexter. Dexter and his girlfriend both died practicing his theories on real wild bears, in a truly wild environment, not with semi-tame bears in a national park. Apparently this was a bear that didn't speak the same language as Dexter, since this bear didn't understand - or care about - a thing he said.
There is a benefit to all of this.
First, he truly qualified for the Darwin Award. What's the criteria for nomination? The Darwin Award is presented - posthumously- to those who contributed to human evolution by self-selecting themselves out of humanities gene pool in the most sublime fashion, i.e., in the most idiotic manner, and secondly we can now dismiss all the misleading and dangerous horsepucky he promoted about bears. Bears kill, that’s why they’re called “wild”.
He was hyped by the leftist celebrity crowd and gained as substantial amount of notoriety. But it was like every other phony philosophical flavor of the day perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. His name wasn’t even Treadwell….it was Dexter…… and everything he said, and everything he said he did was a phony as his name. Well reality finally caught up to Dexter. Dexter and his girlfriend both died practicing his theories on real wild bears, in a truly wild environment, not with semi-tame bears in a national park. Apparently this was a bear that didn't speak the same language as Dexter, since this bear didn't understand - or care about - a thing he said.
There is a benefit to all of this.
First, he truly qualified for the Darwin Award. What's the criteria for nomination? The Darwin Award is presented - posthumously- to those who contributed to human evolution by self-selecting themselves out of humanities gene pool in the most sublime fashion, i.e., in the most idiotic manner, and secondly we can now dismiss all the misleading and dangerous horsepucky he promoted about bears. Bears kill, that’s why they’re called “wild”.
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