I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got there I'll never know.
Posted on 08/29/2008 9:08:52 AM PDT by george76
Mauling was in Gates of the Arctic National Park.
A grizzly bear dragged a woman out of her tent Thursday and mauled her ... according to the National Park Service.
The woman was saved by companions camped with her ...
An Alyeska Pipeline Services Co. helicopter, normally used to monitor the oil pipeline, was expected to pick her up there and ferry her to a hospital in Fairbanks...
They were camped and asleep when the bear arrived in camp. It apparently first entered a "food tent," Quinley said.
"It destroyed a water jug," he said, and tried to get into the group's food, but couldn't.
"It was in bear barrels,'' Quinley said. The Park Service requires those to be used by backpackers in Denali National Park and suggests their use elsewhere to try to keep bears from becoming habituated to human food.
In this case, Quinley said, it appears that when the bear couldn't break into the bear barrels it decided to see what it could find in the next tent and attacked the woman inside. Her screaming apparently awoke others.
Bears attacks in camps have happened in the past, however. Three years ago, Anchorage attorney Richard Huffman and his wife, Katherine, a retired teacher, were attacked in their tent and killed by a grizzly along the Hula Hula River in ANWR.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
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I did that once and all it got was one little blurb in the crime blotter.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
” The woman was part of a group being led by a company from Maine called Her Wild Song, which specializes in spiritual wilderness journeys for women, according to the company’s Web site.”
Never, ever go into bear country without at least a .44magnum.
Palin’s fault.
Palin’s fault.
Palin’s fault.
(Just practicing...)
I would like to have a 12 ga stoked with slugs for that situation, but I can see how a shorter weapon like a powerful revolver may be easier to handle within a tent.
I would like to have a 12 ga stoked with slugs for that situation, but I can see how a shorter weapon like a powerful revolver may be easier to handle within a tent.
Sleep in a bear’s kitchen, expect to be eaten.
I bet the bear thought it was a pizza roll...
Bear Kills 93 Year-Old New Mexico Woman
The 100-pound elderly woman didn’t have a chance against a 275-pound bear in the kitchen of her home...
A 93-year-old New Mexico woman was mauled to death by a black bear that broke into her home over the weekend, stunned wildlife officials have confirmed. Adelia Maestas Trujillo of Cleveland, in north-central New Mexico, was killed “by multiple bite injuries,” said Scott Wilson, associate director of the Office of Medical Investigator...
By Joe Garner
Scripps Howard News Service
August 21, 2001
Thanks for the ping.
The woman is very lucky to have survived. Perhaps these women in search of a spiritual experience in the wilderness will arm themselves next time they choose to tread in grizzly country.
A spiritual experience in Newark with the gangstas would have been more dangerous....
The grizzly bear that attacked Jo Ann Staples inside her tent at a remote camping spot in the Brooks Range on Thursday morning hit her “like a ton of bricks,” the 61-year-old Kentucky woman said.
“I was just sitting in my tent on the sleeping bag and packing my pack,” Staples said from her hospital bed at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital on Friday, a day after the violent attack that left her with what she described as a “mangled” right arm and an ear that doctors “put back together.”
“I didn’t hear anything,” she said. “It was like a ton of bricks coming in on me.”
“It tried to drag me out of the tent,” Staples said. “When (the bear) started dragging me, I started screaming for Anne and the other ladies.”
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/aug/30/bear-mauling-survivor-recalls-attack-gate-arctic-p/
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Thanks.
Your work is always excellent.
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