Ya just gotta be tough to be dumb
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Dusty Bannister
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And he has a head start on the foot race.
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
ARMY---be all you can be
& he's gona be GRIZ POOP !!
& he's gona be GRIZ POOP !!
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Man are you sure that guy's human? I know people are stupid, but that's a new level for Darwin Awards.
I had an unintentional experience like this guy but with a momma black bear first summer I met my Wife Karyn. I was at Karyn's house up the road from my place when the dogs went nuts barking down the drive. This went on for a while so I realized it needed to stop, figured I'd just step out and handle it. Wanted to just go back to warm bed with Karyn. So I left the house only in my boxers and walked down the drive. About 100' down at the corner of the drive there's a spring house and small pond. Drive takes a 90* right at the pond heading out to the road. As the drive bends right the drive embankment falls off about 8' to the natural slope. So it's about 5 in the morning and I'm groggy rubbing my eyes (don't have my glasses on as well) shuffling down to the bend. So just slightly around the bend at the end of the pond, there's a birch tree about 10' from the driveway edge. At this point the embankment is about 8' high and this birch tree is just at the bottom of the embankment. I get there and the dogs suddenly stop barking and start back to the house. It was like "well now the the human is here we're done".
It's semi light out just about dawn. So I wonder down the last 10' to the edge to see what the dogs were excited about. Well I was looking at a dark spot in that birch tree which finally came into focus as a smallish cub. At that very moment I came fully awake. Looking down at the base was momma looking right at me with that beady eye stare, just as still and quite as you please. I slowly turned around and just walked back up to the house. Didn't look back, didn't hurry, just calmly walked back.
So I've never felt more vulnerable then that moment when I realized I didn't have my pants on. The idea of facing a even a small momma bear, only in my boxers, was a very uncomfortable moment..
I had an unintentional experience like this guy but with a momma black bear first summer I met my Wife Karyn. I was at Karyn's house up the road from my place when the dogs went nuts barking down the drive. This went on for a while so I realized it needed to stop, figured I'd just step out and handle it. Wanted to just go back to warm bed with Karyn. So I left the house only in my boxers and walked down the drive. About 100' down at the corner of the drive there's a spring house and small pond. Drive takes a 90* right at the pond heading out to the road. As the drive bends right the drive embankment falls off about 8' to the natural slope. So it's about 5 in the morning and I'm groggy rubbing my eyes (don't have my glasses on as well) shuffling down to the bend. So just slightly around the bend at the end of the pond, there's a birch tree about 10' from the driveway edge. At this point the embankment is about 8' high and this birch tree is just at the bottom of the embankment. I get there and the dogs suddenly stop barking and start back to the house. It was like "well now the the human is here we're done".
It's semi light out just about dawn. So I wonder down the last 10' to the edge to see what the dogs were excited about. Well I was looking at a dark spot in that birch tree which finally came into focus as a smallish cub. At that very moment I came fully awake. Looking down at the base was momma looking right at me with that beady eye stare, just as still and quite as you please. I slowly turned around and just walked back up to the house. Didn't look back, didn't hurry, just calmly walked back.
So I've never felt more vulnerable then that moment when I realized I didn't have my pants on. The idea of facing a even a small momma bear, only in my boxers, was a very uncomfortable moment..
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
BLANKing bears. We don't have the truly nasty, large species in California, though the treehuggers are on their back legs trying to re-establish both grizbears and wolves in the State. That lot's "Native species" fetish and unmanaged wildlands psychosis will turn this place into a moonscape inhabited by apex predators with little to eat. That part is well under way as I write this, given the megafires every summer throughout the West. Well, apex predators with little to eat will resort to hunting humans, just like they did in The Old Days when lower-hazard fare became unavailable.
BLANKing bears.
BLANKing bears.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
You guys realize that isn't a real photo? Photo-Shop'ed from three different pictures.
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Kinda figured that, but, I used to guide people on the outer islands in PWS and I've been amazed at what people want to do in the presence of bears. Some just fit into the natural selection category. I have to explain that I'm not fond of be put in harms way unnecessarily. When you have a small group hiking up a tide water stream with salmon pieces strewn about, it's amazing what some envision. So that memory makes that picture potential fairly real.
The picture just illustrates the potential stupidity of some.
The picture just illustrates the potential stupidity of some.
RBHarter
West Central AR
I did ....
I also believe there exist people that stupid .
I regard the wild cats and bears in the same way . They are twice their weight in rage contained in a paper bag waiting for an excuse to burst forth .
Buff , bison , and moose get their own class of the same standard but at half their weight in the bag . They are just so big they can accidentally destroy things even if they aren't irritated .
I also believe there exist people that stupid .
I regard the wild cats and bears in the same way . They are twice their weight in rage contained in a paper bag waiting for an excuse to burst forth .
Buff , bison , and moose get their own class of the same standard but at half their weight in the bag . They are just so big they can accidentally destroy things even if they aren't irritated .
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Abso-freakin'-lootly!!! We used to see tourists at the town dump line up to watch the bears. Invariably every summer at least 2 or 3 of them would try to get a picture of their kid riding on Yogi's back or with their arms around the bears shoulders! One would occaisionally get thumped up a little, but no one ever died that I know of...why I'm not sure!
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
How about those selfie-takers who take one step too many at the edge of a long drop?
Most years, at least one vehicle takes the 350-foot plunge off Highway 1, because the driver preferred to keep his eyes on the ocean rather than on the narrow twisty road. Last year, by some miracle, a lady driver survived.
Most years, at least one vehicle takes the 350-foot plunge off Highway 1, because the driver preferred to keep his eyes on the ocean rather than on the narrow twisty road. Last year, by some miracle, a lady driver survived.
CWLONGSHOT
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Dusty Bannister
Well-Known Member
If the fly on the line is still wet, I would be considering Karma and leave things just as they are. And leave opposite the direction the bear is traveling.
