Bicyclist going 45 mph hits bear in Boulder County

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 6/26/08 | Shaun Boyd

[LibWhacker]

BOULDER — A cyclist in Boulder County was injured after a run-in, literally, with a bear.

Tim Egan, 53, was riding on Old Stage Road Tuesday afternoon when suddenly a bear appeared in front of him. Egan hit the bear and ended up skidding across the road.

"This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise," said Egan. "I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh.'"

[Zuben Elgenubi]

The bear ran away after the accident when a deer appeared.

What is global warming doing to these bears?

[theDentist]

I hear his bicycle was a Treadwell Runner

[saganite]

“He cracked some ribs, suffered cuts on his head and had road rash. Egan said he and the bike flipped and flew over the bear, hitting the pavement hard”.

It’s OK. He can be recycled.

[Kozak]

I had a cousin who hit a moose with his bike in Vancouver.
Not only did my cousin end up in the hospital he got a ticket for endangering the moose. ( Start Monty Python refrences....)

[freeplancer]

Wow, imagine that, encountering a bear in the Rocky Mountains. I hope it was not the bear from Conan’s show, then I would be really worried.

[dalereed]

I didn't hit anything but I did get stopped by a motorcycle cop for going 47 in a 25mph zone (downhill)
folding papers when I was 11 and the creep wrote me a traffic ticket for speeding and reckless driving.

[RckyRaCoCo]

yogi gave the cyclist a boo-boo?

[shove_it]

STARBOARD!!

[GSWarrior]

Once I ran into a moose on a moped.

I have no idea where it got the moped.

[Red Badger]

YOU SURE IT WASN’T YOUR SISTER WHO HIT THE MOOSE?...........

[Mr. Brightside]

“Thar’s a bear!”

“Whar?”

“Over thar!”

[kbennkc]

The bear ran away after the accident when a deer appeared. What is global warming doing to these bears?

I think this was a variant of the Patronus charm . Harry Potter's was a silver stag , here I am guessing a Mule Deer .

[silverleaf]

some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you!
aaaaahhh!

[newheart]

As they say, “Some days you eat the bear, and some days...”

Fortunately for him it was the former this time.

[RexBeach]

They do a lot of strange things in Boulder on bikes. Are you sure Egan wasn’t naked?

I guess the bear was naked, though, huh?

[Mr. Jeeves]

"This bear looked at me with a look of terror on his face and sort of made a noise," said Egan. "I looked at him with a look of terror and we went, 'aaaahhhhh.'"

Is it wrong that I am laughing so hard at this image? ;)

[MeanWestTexan]

If a bear sh!ts in the woods, is he still Catholic?

(Only bear joke I know, and I got accused of being anti-Catholic for telling it. Real rocket surgeon.)

[NewJerseyJoe]

Bears call this “Meals on Wheels.”

[null and void]

*groan* That was unbearable