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Man Uses Knife to Save Friends from Bear Attack in Japan
AmmoLand ^
| November 8, 2023
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 11/10/2023 3:37:31 AM PST by marktwain
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Men with knives can kill big bears, but they usually suffer serious injuries during the execution.
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posted on
11/10/2023 3:37:31 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: kanawa
Ping for defense against bear with a knife.
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posted on
11/10/2023 3:39:31 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
...the 1.7-meter-tall bear...
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posted on
11/10/2023 3:46:09 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: marktwain
So far in the USA we have better means to accomplish the end.
For animal defense
Bigger knifes are better then small knifes Swords are better then big knifes. Spears are better then swords.
Firearms are better then all above.
To: Libloather
Being eaten by a bear in Japan. Seems kind of incongruous.
Perhaps the people of Japan shall not look at a bear quite the same way.
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posted on
11/10/2023 3:59:46 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
To: alloysteel
Japan had 177 people attacked by bears this year. It appears to be many more people are attacked by a bears in Japan than are attacked by bears in the USA.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:08:19 AM PST
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
I didn’t even realize that Japan had bears.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:11:38 AM PST
by
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
To: marktwain
Interesting how the attack is partially blamed on the depopulation of the villages as the general population declines, as opposed to here in the states where increasing pops are blamed for encroachment and forced contact with bears as reasons for increased attacks.
Darned if ya do and darned if ya don’t.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:15:00 AM PST
by
ArtDodger
To: marktwain
. It seems likely the attack was prompted because the bear was defending the food cache it had made of the body of a hiker it had killed on October 29.
Bears can climb steep rock faces much better than humans. This bear learned that it could prey on humans climbing up the mountain, and will continue to do so unless killed or removed from this place. This is a good reason not to climb mountains in Japan, especially without a large caliber firearm.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:24:29 AM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: I-ambush
There may be as many as 10,000 brown bears on Hokkaido. That is a lot of bears in a relatively small space.
To: marktwain
”People need to find ways to coexist with bears and other wild animals, said Dr Mariko Abe of The Nature Conservation Society of Japan.” Maybe we can negotiate, create a two-state solution.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:46:00 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(They're lying.)
To: marktwain
Local police believe that Kanato Yanaike attempted to grin the bear to death but lost his concentration.
To: Libloather
Cute, cuddly, and expensive. The other one’s a stuffed bear.
To: Dr. Franklin
This is a good reason not to climb mountains in Japan, especially without a large caliber firearm. Or a heavy club to beat them off with.
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11/10/2023 5:49:13 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: marktwain
Someone on Hokkaido ought to make that guy an honorary black belt, if he isn’t a real one already.
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posted on
11/10/2023 5:54:47 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(Be especially sure to take extra wool socks.)
To: marktwain
Yet the Japanese make such an effort to emphasize the mysterious and surely paranormal likelihood of any mountain hiker that goes missing.
Ive seen more than one show and read a number of articles about the missing but no one ever mentions bears in Japan outside of ancient Ainu bear cult references as though the bears disappeared along with oni and sea dragons.
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posted on
11/10/2023 7:03:41 AM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: gnarledmaw
Yet the Japanese make such an effort to emphasize the mysterious and surely paranormal likelihood of any mountain hiker that goes missing. I started looking, and was surprised I did not find any central database for people killed by bears in Japan. From a few news articles, the number of people killed by bears in Japan sometimes surpasses the number killed by bears in North America.
To: marktwain
Bear meat tastes quite good.
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11/10/2023 7:33:48 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.
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posted on
11/10/2023 7:40:53 AM PST
by
SJackson
(In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
To: I-ambush
“I didn’t even realize that Japan had bears.”
And certainly not in such large numbers or with such ferocity.
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posted on
11/10/2023 7:48:47 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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