Are Darwin Award Nominations Still Open?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kirnwaffen
I don't think he earned the Darwin. Stupid as it was, it just isn't funny or unique enough. Too many stupid people ****ing with the animals out there...

This guy wrote books about it: The touchy-feely Malibu hippie liberal guide to Dancing with Bears. That should qualify him.

Black bears are one thing, Kodiaks and grizzlies another thing entirely.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Bear attacks are pretty rare, and you basically have to back thm into a corner, get between them and their food (which could be your food) or cubs or just be in their way. Bear attacks virtually stpped in Glacier National Park when they figured out that a camp ground was on a bear track, and moved the camp ground.

Me, I'd never go wandering around in bear country without a gun. I just don't want to be eaten.

With Kodiaks and grizzlies, sometimes your mere existence withing their field of sight or smell means you're in the way.

[Space05us]

Around brown/grizzly bear country a large caliber rifle would be a wise percaution.

or a pistol, usualy the noise will scare them off. and if it doesnt its not like you'll have the chance to get a good shot in before its on top of you.

Black bears are one thing, Kodiaks and grizzlies another thing entirely.

pfft, I could beat them up with one hand tied behind my back. Polar bears on the other hand...

Polar bears are scary, they actually go out of thier ways to hunt people. They're extremely smart too, they will hunt in groups and scare a person into running into a trap. There was an incident where a guy in Prudhoe bay was sitting next to a window eating hi lunch and a polar bear grabbed him and pulled him out of the building. Last winter a guy got eaten by a polar bear.

its fun knowing that at any second while youre walking home you might be being hunted.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Ever go hicking in a national or state forest?

I didn't even know this sort of thing was legal. What do you do with the hicks when you see them?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Azazel

. If the bear's out to eat you (very rare), you're dead anyway, since they can run faster than you, swim faster, and climb trees faster.

Think again.

If I were a dove I'd be quaking on my boots. As for bears, I'd prefer something with more ability to penetrate a bears hide more than 3 meters away.

[duke o' york]

The best thing about the guy who kept a tiger in his apartment is that the tiger's name was Ming.

[Az]

Originally posted by Sikander


If I were a dove I'd be quaking on my boots. As for bears, I'd prefer something with more ability to penetrate a bears hide more than 3 meters away.

That's why I was talking about it being for self-defence, you heartless poacher.

Plus, I wonder how thick his hide is in the skull area.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Azazel
Plus, I wonder how thick his hide is in the skull area.

Actually, nothing short of a large calibur rifle is useful for taking down a grizzly/Kodiak or polar bear. Pistols won't even slow them down, and a shot gun might kill a charging grizzly at close range, but you won't have a second chance if you don't get it on the first try.



Often times, a grizzly will bluff charge to see what you'll do. If you panic and run, you're toast. They can run at about 30 miles an hour, which is more than ten miles an hour than the fastest human ever. They can smash car windows and rip the doors off of cars, so if you can get to your car, drive fast, don't relax.

Best bet, don't go into bear country. Next best bet, carry a large calibur rifle and hope the bear doesn't eat you while you're sleeping. 3rd best bet, bluff the bear. The bear knows its the baddest thin out there, so anything that stands up to a bear must be tough in the bear's mind. Plus, the bear can't risk being hurt, since it needs all its strength to bulk up fo winter and an injury can easily mean starving to death before spring.

If all else fails, play dead or jump off a cliff if one's handy. You might survive the fall. Try and catch a tree on the way down.

[Az]

Bears seem like immensly annoying goons. All of this makes me feel a lot less sorry for them when they're captured and treated like **** in sideshows.

[chequita guevara]

Bears are magnificent creatures. We just have to learn to respect the bear in its habitat and not do stupid ****, like try and touch them.

[chequita guevara]

Most wild animals, actually, will **** you up. Apparently the most dangerous wild animal in the world, in terms of loss of human life, is the hippopotumus.

In the U.S. we have the magnificent Yellowstone National Park. More than 300 visitors have lost their lives there, and many more are injured. Many people just don't seem to get the concept of wild.

When Bunnygrrl, Theben, and I drove through one day on our way home from Orgeon, there were signs all over saying, do not approach the animals, they are wild. Well, we saw some dumb**** approaching a bison trying to take a picture. About a half hour further down the road (it was like rush hour, wall to wall cars in the forest), along comes an ambulance. idiot.

[duke o' york]

Yeah, but the bison bought it too, I'm betting.
It always seems to be a case of "This creature has trampled/gored the, admittedly very stupid, man who got too close to it. It'll have to be shot for the safety of others."

[MichaeltheGreat]

Bison they pretty much don't. Bears, it depends on the circumstance, whether you shoot it, or trap it and dump it way further out in the boonies.

When I was in Yellowstone as a kid (back when they had flashcubes for those little 126-film Kodak instamatics :dinosaur: ) we saw the immediate aftermath of the same kind of stupidity as chegitz mentions - dumbass went out with one of those pocket instamatics, lined up for the nose-print closeup of the first bull buffalo he found, and POP goes the flashbulb.

The ambulance was already there, but from the looks of things, I doubt the moron survived.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Space05us

Polar bears are scary, they actually go out of thier ways to hunt people. They're extremely smart too, they will hunt in groups and scare a person into running into a trap. There was an incident where a guy in Prudhoe bay was sitting next to a window eating hi lunch and a polar bear grabbed him and pulled him out of the building. Last winter a guy got eaten by a polar bear.

its fun knowing that at any second while youre walking home you might be being hunted.

Wow -- that is scary sh*t.

[chequita guevara]

Yeah, the bison only get killed when they cross park lands. Some kinda minor disease in bison that very, very rarely jumps species into cattle, where it is more serious. Some sixty precent of the Yellowstone heard was wiped out a few winters back during a harsh season, when they left the higher elevations of the park and went down onto rancher lands to graze.

****in' ranchers, they kill off all our natural critters, even if they get reimbursed by the Feds for any ranch animal that's killed or harmed by public wildlife. Not that they could ever prove a bald eagle could take down a sheep Sure, wolves and grizzlies are minor threats to ranch animals, but you get the damn money back.