Would you survive a bear attack?

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  • Sleeping in EQ
    Philosopher of Men
    • Nov 2008
    • 4188

    #1

    Would you survive a bear attack?

    Well, would you?
    21
    Yes
    38.10%
    8
    No
    61.90%
    13
    We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
  • Jeff Lebowski
    Corporate lackey for Jesus
    • Nov 2008
    • 69813

    #2
    Assuming I was hiking with someone I can outrun, yes.
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    • Pelado
      Bald not naked
      • Sep 2010
      • 21211

      #3
      Originally posted by Sleeping in EQ View Post
      Well, would you?
      Black bear, brown bear, polar bear, panda bear, teddy bear, or grizzly bear?
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      • Dwight Schr-ute
        Members Only
        • May 2011
        • 4917

        #4
        This was the professor for my animal behavior class. Attacked in Alaska by a brown bear when he surprised her and her cub on the trail rounding a corner. Lucky to get away with half his face left.



        I’m not sure anyone can answer the question. Sure you can play the percentages depending on which species you’re faced off with, but nature is a crazy, unpredictable thing.


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        I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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        • YOhio
          Hipster Mode
          • Nov 2008
          • 26165

          #5
          If the dad's girlfriend on Parent Trap can then I think most of us can.

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          • Northwestcoug
            Cocked and Loaded
            • May 2011
            • 18088

            #6
            Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
            This was the professor for my animal behavior class. Attacked in Alaska by a brown bear when he surprised her and her cub on the trail rounding a corner. Lucky to get away with half his face left.



            I’m not sure anyone can answer the question. Sure you can play the percentages depending on which species you’re faced off with, but nature is a crazy, unpredictable thing.


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            Yikes. That is scary.
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            • old_gregg
              scaly man fish
              • Nov 2009
              • 16915

              #7
              Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
              Yikes. That is scary.
              i agree, couldn’t he find a better plastic surgeon?
              Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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              • Dwight Schr-ute
                Members Only
                • May 2011
                • 4917

                #8
                Originally posted by old_gregg View Post
                i agree, couldn’t he find a better plastic surgeon?
                Not in 1977.

                When looking up the story, I was mistaken about Alaska, where he was doing his research when I knew him, but the attack was in Yellowstone. Pretty grizzly details here.




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                I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.

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                • MartyFunkhouser
                  Disciple of RNGesus
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 18774

                  #9
                  No.
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                  • happyone
                    Board Bookworm
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 5398

                    #10
                    I doubt it - but I do believe in miracles - it would take one

                    I may be small, but I'm slow.

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                    • Donuthole
                      Official Outgayer
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 25303

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
                      Not in 1977.

                      When looking up the story, I was mistaken about Alaska, where he was doing his research when I knew him, but the attack was in Yellowstone. Pretty grizzly details here.


                      Too soon.
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                      • Northwestcoug
                        Cocked and Loaded
                        • May 2011
                        • 18088

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
                        Not in 1977.

                        When looking up the story, I was mistaken about Alaska, where he was doing his research when I knew him, but the attack was in Yellowstone. Pretty grizzly details here.




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                        That is a wild story. He is lucky to be alive.

                        Originally posted by Donuthole View Post

                        Too soon.
                        It was 40 years ago. If we can't joke about it now, then the terrorists have won.
                        "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                        "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                        - SeattleUte

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                        • Donuthole
                          Official Outgayer
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 25303

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
                          It was 40 years ago. If we can't joke about it now, then the terrorists have won.
                          Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

                          There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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                          • mtnbiker
                            it's all a blur
                            • Mar 2009
                            • 2573

                            #14
                            I know a guy who had an encounter with a grizzly. He emptied his .454 Casull into the bear as it charged, and the bear died just as it landed on him. The guy's wife was a little behind him and watched the whole thing play out.

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                            • Paperback Writer
                              Signature won a Pulitzer
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5211

                              #15
                              I backpack in bear country. Most people survive bear encounters/attacks but my wife still thinks that will be my demise.
                              “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
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