Posted on 12/30/2022 4:09:00 AM PST by marktwain
At 6 a.m., on September 12, 1988, a trapper and his friend were staying at a cabin at Krosspynten, part of the Svalbard archipelago, which is under the jurisdiction of Norway. They were woken by a polar bear boar which had gained entrance to the cabin hallway (probably the air or weather lock to the cabin). The trapper had a .44 magnum revolver. Krosspynten is about a hundred and fifty miles north and eighty miles east of Longyearbyen. Mushamna is about one hundred miles north of Longyearbyen.
The incident report was uncovered with a Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request by AmmoLand. Individual names have been redacted. The report was translated into English, so it has been edited for readability, and a fictitious name has been substituted. From the FOIA account, incident 142:
Oscar and a friend were staying at the cabin at Krosspynten. At 6 AM, a bear entered the cabin hallway and woke them up. The bear had been rummaging in there for a few seconds before they knocked on the wall to drive it away. The bear went outside. A few seconds later, it came around to the front of the cabin and smashed the window of the room where they were. The bear backed up, then accelerated and threw itself at the window. It destroyed the window bar and made the wall of the cabin bulge dangerously inwards. At that moment, Oscar thought the wall would collapse. The bear was halfway inside the cabin; its front paws, head, and a part of the upper body were through the window.
Oscar thought the wall would collapse if he didn’t do anything. He had no choice but to shoot the bear. He had his revolver by the bed and fired one shot into the throat of the bear.
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This is why polar bears should not have revolvers.
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Just kidding. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and be safe on New Year’s Day.
Old news 🤣🤣🤣
Good story though!
Also useful for two-legged annimals.
Yes, it is a good story.
How much of our view of reality has been colored because many stories are selectively not reported?
If a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a handgun.
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{Also, Happy New Year.}
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Protip: If you encounter a cougar in close proximity while camping or hiking shoot it instead of yelling and trying to make yourself look bigger. Embrace being a primate tool user.
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Ducati/status/1608379422402555904
Yup. Music hath charms that soothe the savage beast, and polar bears love the Beatles.
The bear must have been feeling lucky.
Poor punk bear musta been feeling rather lucky that cold morning but didnt know that it was going up against a 44 Magnum...the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow its head clean off. How lucky you feel’n now? PUNK!
.44 magnum? In the words of scorpio from Dirty Harry........after he saw Harry whip out his .44........”My, that’s a big one.” Hilarious the cannotation....
” This bear was skinny. Everything indicates the bear was coming inside to get food no matter what. Oscar did not like to have to kill a protected animal, but the choice, at that point, was the bear or Oscar and his friend.”
This is what bothers me. Why didn’t Oscar call the police instead. They could have arrested the bear and likely rehabilitated him by showing him how his way of life hurts others, and then they could have taught him, new, productive, skills (like coding), so when he was released back into society, he could earn an honest living. But on, instead, Oscar decides to be judge, jury, and executioner, and for what, the bear was simply requesting some food (look in the mirror and ask if you’ve ever been hungry). Sickening to see people who refuse to help those in need and instead take justice into their own hands.
You mean it was there to hug a Nissan Leaf owner?
Was s/b wasn’t.
“But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you, punk?”
DH 1971
Supposedly that was an ad lib by the Scorpio actor and the whole crew fell over laughing.
The bear must have been feeling lucky.
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I nominate you for the best witty comment of the year.😊
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