News: Teen calls mum as bears eat her

Smacks the forehead and says, "I shoulda had a 308."
 
I have always had blackies in the back of my mind when tromping the Boreal toward the evening. Particularly in the spring. I used to whoop out "hey bear, hey bear" if the environment waranted it. Sorry, I did not read the article. I'm not in the mood for horror tonight. Gettin old I guess.
 
When I was a teen my family was hiking near the Grand Tetons at a place called Jenny Lake. The information booth had pamphlets stating what not to do if you spotted a bear. For those who couldn't be bothered to read, there was a piture on the front with a cartoon depicting someone taking close-up pictures of a bear with a big slash through it.

About half a mile from the trail head there was a group of people standing around taking close-up pictures of something, guess what it was. (It was a bear if you were wondering). Anyway, it had gotten ahold of someone's backpack and was eating it. We headed back to the parking lot. As we were loading up a guy came down the trail and said, "Hey, did you see the bear cub... it's just up the trail if you didn't." It was a black bear, and probably "only" 5' tall on its haunches, but that ain't a cub (which is probably for the best since a cub means momma is out there) and even a "little" black bear could have torn the people around it to shreds if it so desired.

I think a lot of people think that the forrestry service is just trying to ruin their fun when they post safety regulations.
 
That was a short but tough read, confirms my beliefs on edc'ing a firearm everytime I go out in the boonies.
 
Sad. I agree, babes in the woods. Being in bear country is bad, but being in bear country while they're rearing their young ones...
You folks know that making yourself larger than life can save your ass eh? Holding a tree over your head and lurching at a critter will intimidate and make it second guess. Works for moose too. Playing dead doesn't work by the way.
 
That is the worst thing I've read in a long time.
Is there any follow up to this? I just wondered, as I heard a story about Yeti's forcing bears out of their areas in Siberia earlier this year. At the time I just laughed & thought it was very unlikely, but.... It also said that a lot of bears would starve this year. Starving bears hunt & kill humans don't they???
 
philbro said:
That is the worst thing I've read in a long time.
Is there any follow up to this? I just wondered, as I heard a story about Yeti's forcing bears out of their areas in Siberia earlier this year. At the time I just laughed & thought it was very unlikely, but.... It also said that a lot of bears would starve this year. Starving bears hunt & kill humans don't they???
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You mean like the "abominable snowman" types!?
 
untamed said:
You mean like the "abominable snowman" types!?
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I thought the Russians had been drinking too much vodka, but I can't explain why brown bears would hunt & immediately eat a human? Black bears yes, but I've never heard of browns acting this way unless the'yre starving.
There's been a lot of Russian Yeti/Alma sightings this year, I think the first proof will come from there & not from BFRO.
 
I believe there is some truth to statement made in the beginning of the Anthony Hopkins movie "The Edge". Once a brown gets a taste of us, it becomes a man killing machine. We may be like "filet mignon" to them. If they were digging up graveyards & eating fresh dead humans, that may be where they got thier taste for humans & peg us as an easy meal, from that day forward. I do not know this to be true & factual, just my guess. What a sad, sad story. I think 911 would be my first call, not my mom, but thats just me i guess. No parent should ever have to hear that. How horrifying.
 
Frightening story; today I was out on a solo hike in some local mountains on a pretty unknown trail, and while crashing through a particularly thick and overgrown (read: blind) section of the trail I came face to face with a small black bear. I had nothing more than a 3" folder accessible to me (my slightly more confidence inspiring bushcraft gear was in my pack, out of reach...), and I doubt a blade like that would help me much had I walked in on a mother bear and her cubs. I was of course able to easily intimidate the small black bear and scare it away, but stories like this really make you think about just how safe you really are during encounters like mine... I'd love to be able to carry a gun with me on hikes :(
 
Here are some more bears attacks just recently; Teen tells of fight with killer polar bear
http://news.yahoo.com/teen-tells-fight-killer-polar-bear-152308175.html
It looks like polar bears are starving too. It seems sad how unprepared some of these people can be for the environments they are traveling in.

P.S. I have a Glock 21 with +P+ rounds I carry when my wife and I go camping in the smokies and north carolina, does anyone think this sounds like enough protection for any creatures we might come across in those area?
 
Troy H, I think there is a clue in this article about the incident: Express.co.uk article

The double killing is the latest in a spate of bear attacks across Russia, as the hungry animals seek food in areas where people have encroached and settled on their former habitat.
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It doesn't take much to realize this is the case globally, as humans expand from every direction. Animals are getting more desperate as we squeeze them onto ever-smaller islands of wilderness. Consider how coyotes have adapted and moved into suburbs and cities all across the US. We've got two at least that hang around the creek out back and eat the neighborhood cats.
 
I suspect there's going to be a real shortage of bears in that vicinity soon
 
Noddy said:
I suspect there's going to be a real shortage of bears in that vicinity soon
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I doubt it. The grizzly bears are protected by the Endangered Species Act and an alphabet soup of Federal agencies. The last previous bear there that ate someone was exhonerated because she had cubs. The bear population in and around Yellowstone is growing every year. Their habitat is not shrinking, but expanding. So are their encounters with humans and livestock.
 
Absolutely Unreal..

I'd be a basket case for sure if that was one of my kids..

But to be in Siberia......... mandatory gun toting without a doubt.........................................
 
I take your point, Codger_64. But I don't know if the same protections are extended to bears in Siberia


Codger_64 said:
I doubt it. The grizzly bears are protected by the Endangered Species Act and an alphabet soup of Federal agencies. The last previous bear there that ate someone was exhonerated because she had cubs. The bear population in and around Yellowstone is growing every year. Their habitat is not shrinking, but expanding. So are their encounters with humans and livestock.
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