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Black Bear Mauls Florida Woman, Drags Her Out of Garage
Yahoo ^ | 4-13-2014 | LIZ FIELDS

Posted on 04/13/2014 2:43:20 PM PDT by Darren McCarty

The hunt is on today for a black bear who mauled a woman at her home in an upscale central Florida neighborhood, leaving her with injuries to her face, legs and torso and requiring her to get 40 stitches to the head.

Terri Frana of Lake Mary, Fla., went to her garage Saturday evening to grab bicycles for her children to ride down to their neighbor's house when the attack happened, according to her husband, Frank Frana.

As soon as the children left, Frana, 45, saw two bears in the driveway. She walked to the patio area where there were five bears eating trash that they had pulled out of the garage, her husband said.

"The bear got up on [its] hind legs and started to maul her, opened its jaws and put her head in the mouth and dragged her towards the woods," Frank Frana said. "Somehow she was able to pull herself out."

"The bears were various sizes so we think it's probably cubs of different maturity and perhaps a mama bear," the Seminole County Sheriff's Office told ABC News.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said there was at least one bear involved in the attack but couldn't corroborate the report that there had been five bears.

Frana managed to get inside the house, said her husband. Her son found her collapsed in the living room and called 911. She was then taken to a local hospital where she was treated for at least three bear bites and several cuts all over her body.

Frana was released from the hospital Sunday morning and is recovering at home, her husband said.

(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: animalattack; attackbears; bear; bears; bearsattack; blackbear; maul; wildlife
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To: Mastador1

Misread your post. Born in the 70’s.


21 posted on 04/13/2014 3:03:33 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Repeal The 17th
I thought Black Bears were from Maine...


22 posted on 04/13/2014 3:03:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Darren McCarty

“Wonder if some folks were feeding the bears since they usually try to avoid people. “

I’m sandwiched between federal and state forests. The bears hide out there during the day and then raid garbage cans at night. There’s no such thing as a bear-proof garbage can. (Well, I suppose if you could buy a surplus tank that would work.) I don’t know of anybody who voluntarily feeds them. The cat always tells me when one is around. (Sweetie? Why are you under the bed?)


23 posted on 04/13/2014 3:04:17 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Darren McCarty
No! Bad Teddy! Mauling is not cool.
24 posted on 04/13/2014 3:06:19 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Repeal The 17th
I knew Georgia had bears in the mountains. My ex-girlfriend lives in the burbs, and occasionally Yogi wanders past Gainesville (GA).

The local paper down there had a bear accident make front page news on one of the days I visited.

25 posted on 04/13/2014 3:07:10 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Darren McCarty

Well we all have to live within our childhoods, few of look to the years before us.


26 posted on 04/13/2014 3:08:27 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Darren McCarty

My sister lives in Navarre, Fl. Her neighborhood backs up to a wooded area and there is a black bear that lives in there that is constantly getting into trash cans.


27 posted on 04/13/2014 3:11:32 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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To: dfwgator

Paul Kariya was a Black Bear.


28 posted on 04/13/2014 3:15:11 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Starstruck

Too funny.


29 posted on 04/13/2014 3:15:24 PM PDT by BlueCat
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To: RitchieAprile

Yes, Maine has a very good hockey program.


30 posted on 04/13/2014 3:16:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Darren McCarty

I live in the Atlanta suburbs, about half-way between Atlanta and Athens.
A (small) black bear was hit in traffic on I-85 near here
a few years back and it caused all kinds of uproar.
(the enviro whacko’s were weapin’ and wailin’
and gnashing their teeth)
They were more worried about the fate of the bear
than that of the injured humans.


31 posted on 04/13/2014 3:17:15 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Is this one of those times where they try to find the offending bear and kill it or relocate it? I hope they don’t have to kill it. People who live in this area should already know they are near bear habitats, unless the bears have just began to spread out. That’s possible if the area is in a drought.


32 posted on 04/13/2014 3:18:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Starstruck

Racist reporters! Couldn’t they have just said they were all dressed in dark fur coats?


33 posted on 04/13/2014 3:18:46 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Mastador1

Grizzly Addams would have a few things to say about this.


34 posted on 04/13/2014 3:19:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Repeal The 17th

It’s like the dead trees that are mourned for by the eco-nuts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4


35 posted on 04/13/2014 3:20:59 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Bunch of stupid hippies.


36 posted on 04/13/2014 3:22:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Darren McCarty
I keep bees. The disaster that one bear can bring to my bee yard is beyond description. It's not the honey they like. It's the bee larvae. Then the worst part is the bear can't see anymore from being stung in the face so bad it's eyes are swollen shut. Every 12 hours or so it keeps coming back until all your hives are torn to shreds. A $20,000 loss in a few hours.

30-06 and a back hoe. Three months of rain to wash all the dirt and wax mixed honey into the soil.

37 posted on 04/13/2014 3:23:14 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: lee martell
Grizzly Addams would have a few things to say about this.

If Haggerty was still on coke he'd of taken ALL the bears on at the same time!

38 posted on 04/13/2014 3:23:33 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

OMFG


39 posted on 04/13/2014 3:23:41 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Man!
WORST DAY EVER!!

I’d hate to have to grab my 45-70 whenever I took out the trash.


40 posted on 04/13/2014 3:24:59 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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