Posted on 01/08/2024 4:29:32 AM PST by marktwain
A video of a polar bear attack which was repelled with a couple of long sticks or pipes has been popping up, on and off, for a few years. It seems to have first appeared in 2020. Some sites claim the event happened in Quebec, Canada. Any help in identifying the location and person/people involved would be appreciated. The video is 12 seconds long.
The site in the video seems to be a research station of some type. There is an antenna mast, probably for communication, a rectangular shelter with a door at the corner, and what may be an instrument or communications mounting stub coming out of the roof at the left upper corner.
The charging bear is wary of the long pipe/stick that the man is pointing at the bear’s nose/chest. The long objects are likely some light metal pipe or conduit because of their uniform width, length (about 10 feet), and straight geometry. There is a dog in the video, which appears briefly on the middle left side.
The man with the poles/pipes shoves the end of the pipe at the charging bear, which abruptly puts on the brakes as it is hit by the pipe/pole. After retreating, the bear comes back. The man swings/flings the second pole at the bear, which hits the bear on the front legs. The bears retreat, and we do not see them anymore.
Consider if the man had a spear instead of a pole. The bear could have sustained a deadly chest wound if the man had used slightly different tactics at the beginning. If he had waited a fractional second for the bear to get a yard/meter closer and thrust into the chest cavity the blow could easily be deadly.
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The person was amazed. They told him the .22 rifles were way better than sharp sticks.
He was picking blackberries, thinking there was another human near him when the bear charged him.
He pulled up the .22, stuck it in the bear's eye (luck + reflexes + skill) and pulled the trigger.
The body of the now dead bear brushed his leg as he side stepped.
They probably just wanted to discuss the ramifications of global warming on the seal population and maybe eat him.
Bang stick would be a better choice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Fj4PifRsA&pp=ygUSZmVlZGluZyBwb2xhciBiZWFy
And while he was struggling to pull the spear from the first bear, the second bear would have eaten his face.
Probably happened somewhere near Warsaw. After all, it looks like it’s in Pole-land. 🙄
Pointed sticks, eh......fresh fruit not good enough for you?
Possible, I suppose. I notice the second bear wasn't even willing to get as close as the first bear. The man picked up a second pole immediately, which could have been a second spear.
People have killed bears with spears for thousands of years. It helps if you have several people and dogs.
The bear’s lucky the guy wasn’t armed with fresh fruit
1st bear “hey, ever smell human poo before”
2nd bear “nope”
1st bear “here, hold my beer”
8 beleive that in some places, a test of bravery is to find grizzlies and get them tk,charge and spear them and jam the other spear end into the ground. Supposedly a Russian MMA fighter did just that, killing the bear off with knives. Alex emilianenko
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Emelianenko
“Emelianenko likes hunting and once told in an interview that he killed a bear by piercing through its throat with a bear spear and then stabbing it in the heart with a knife, a traditional way of Russian bear hunting”
Landscape With Bear Hunting 1598 Egbert Jansz
Bears were extirpated from England by about 600 AD.
Bears were eliminated in most populated areas of Western Europe by 1900. Some survived in those places where people were rare, such as remote mountains and forests.
Good thing he didn’t use a firestick. Trudeau would have him arrested.
Reminds me of this story a man told to friends:
I was walking through woods when confronted be a bear. I took off running and after about 100 feet I came to a sudden stop. When the bear slid by me I reversed direction and ran in the opposite direction. After about 100 feet I again stopped and the bear slid by me again. After doing this two more times the bear gave up and left. One of my friends said if that happened to me I would have s**t my pants. I told him “what do you think the bear was sliding on”?
Any animal can successfully defend itself. With most anything.
Just go for the eyes. A half blind bear/wolf/lion/etc is dead the next time it attacks some other food bit. They know it. They will back off.
Wolverines, badgers, cornered rat. Every one of them can survive a massive attack.
You don’t have to kill the attacker. Just remind them that it is important to them to survive the NEXT meal.
I can’t recommend a pointed stick over a good firearm against a bear, even with cavalry and canine support.
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