Posted on 01/31/2009 4:25:13 PM PST by george76
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.
Joe Garner
Scripps Howard News Service
August 21, 2001
I was once told that pepper spray and bells in your shoelaces would repel bears. I was also told that one way to identify bear dropping is that it would smell like pepper and have little bells in it.
LOL! No one walks on game trails, ridge lines, tree lines, or streets in indian country.
Much less sleep on a bear run. No-one is that much of an idiot.
/johnny
I decline to answer that question.
One does not have to outrun a bear, just outrun your hiking companion.
LOL!!!
You are married to a very smart woman!
/johnny
This is ***NOT*** wilderness!
The **highly*** populated Utah Valley is an **easy** downhill ride to the west of this campground! It includes the solidly populated Provo, Orem, Lehi, and American Fork ***cities** and Thanksgiving Point!
On the east ( within the reach of a hearty walker) is Robert Redford's resort of Sundance. I have **personally** ridden my **bike** from the campground to town of Heber in the nearby **populated** area of Heber Valley.
The area is thick as fleas with **people** who literally live within walking distance!!!!
Only IDIOTS would have introduced bears into an area in such close proximity on both the west and east with such highly populated area.
The area has not been wilderness for more than 100 years and the bears were deliberately **introduced** by idiots.
That is a great and also, funny list!
thanks for a good post and the humor with the real information.
I love bears! In pictures, nature movies and FAR away from me!
WOW. Poor lady!
More brilliant “environmentalists “ like the ones that banned DDT and Malaria went wild.
I love animals...but the environmentalists often cause MORE problems cause they live in movie fantasy land and don’t research this stuff.
Well, that's going to leave a mark. Any chance of introducing the idiots to the bears?
Far as I understand, after the 20th of this month, pretty much everything is open season, no bag limit. Eat what you kill.
/johnny
I think I know a little about that case. Is it the one where the camp counselor saved the girl by shooting the bear with his pistol?
“The area has not been wilderness for more than 100 years and the bears were deliberately **introduced** by idiots.”
Black bears aren’t into blubber, I don’t think. You’ll need a polar bear to rid us of algore.
And if I am not mistaken, this poor kid had some candy wrappers in his tent. I have done field work in Namibia where lion and hyena are an everyday presence, and I won't even allow bottled water in my tent. I'm going back in August and will no doubt have to tell the FNGs how if anyone brings anything remotely resembling food into my tent, they won't have to worry about the critters, cause I'll kill them first.
I guess those large furry creatures I see in western Montana are not bears. I guess those steamy mounds on the trails full of apples and cherries in September didn’t come from bears. I guess that was just a really large dog getting out of the lake and scampering up a sheer cliff.
My point was that the rangers should be able to see tracks and be able to tell the campers that bears are in the area. I wasn’t saying follow the tracks until you find the bear. That would be foolish.
This family knew the risks of camping in the wilderness...
Be prepared...WTF??
If you fail to predetermine the risks, then you are sh-t out of luck.
The wilderness is almost as dangerous as the city, be careful...
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