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A 15-year-old boy on a wilderness expedition for emotionally troubled youths fought off a brown bear that came into his tent while he was sleeping.
The boy awoke in the morning to find the 181kg bear sitting at his feet.
After he tried unsuccessfully to back out of his tent, the bear bit him on the forearm. But the boy fought back and punched the bear repeatedly with his left hand, according to an account of the weekend incident given to the media by Alaska state trooper Adam Benson yesterday. When the teenager tried to run, the bear bit him again below his ribs, this time leaving several puncture wounds on his back, Mr Benson said. The boy punched the bear again, and again she let him go, but chased him around a nearby stand of trees, he added.
Steve Prysunka, the director of the six-week Crossing Wilderness Expeditions for Youth programme said the boy eventually remembered an air horn amongst his equipment, and blew it in the bear's face, waking others in the camp. The bear finally turned and ran after staff blasted her with pepper spray and fired a flare at her feet, Mr Prysunka said.
Later the same day officials found the bear in the campsite area on Deer Island in south-east Alaska and killed her.
The boy, from Barrow, Alaska, was flown to a hospital, where he was treated, then sent home to give his wounds time to heal, Mr Prysunka said.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #22 I learned something from this post, which is how to evade a wild bear trying to eat you. A Glacier NP ranger told me that the way to differentiate a brown/black bear and a grizzly bear was to climb a tree while it was chasing you. The brown/black would climb after you, catch and eat you, while the grizzly bear would simply push the tree over, then catch and eat you. The ranger didn't tell me to run around the tree. I'll have to remember that. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2004-04-27 9:41:46 PM |
| #21 Somewhere I have my own California flag and I never noticed: 1) There's a Commie star on it! 2) That bear has left doots everywhere. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-04-27 8:39:41 PM |
| #20 Snif. I'm remember that from the Postman. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-27 8:16:16 PM |
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| Posted by: Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 4:28:37 PM |
| #18 chased him around a nearby stand of trees LOL! So the bear is chasing him around the camp and nobody hears it. Which actually answers a long standing mystery: if a tree falls in the forest...... |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-04-27 3:41:32 PM |
| #17 California's a country ?!? |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-27 3:09:37 PM |
| #16 On top of all that, need I remind you which country has the bear as its national symbol? Hmmmm? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-27 2:57:20 PM |
| #15 Yogi was definitely a Bolshevik mole, no respect at all for property rights or the work ethic. Every right-thinking American knows that Warner Brothers cartoons were the true font of all political wisdom. From Bugs Bunny's casual individualism and Daffy Duck's heroic fight against the WW2 Axis to Pepe LePew's cautionary tales against friendship with the perfidious French, the Acme Company's ingenuity and sterling entrepreneurshp, and Wile E. Coyote's heroic persistance in the face of adversity, WB symbolized all that was America. No wonder a lot of their work is censored these days. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-27 2:54:59 PM |
| #14 To all - A clarification! Ranger Smith : INFIDEL We will not rest until he is dispached. He has caused great stress to the prophet, Yogi. Bruno Deuclaugh, Holy Growler, Nome, Alaska |
| Posted by: Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 2:40:06 PM |
| #13 Yep. JellyStone=U.S. Pic-A-Nik Baskets=Capital Ranger Smith=Metropolitan Financier Boo-Boo=Bougawa uh Beauga hmmm uh Begawaz Proletariat! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-27 1:58:41 PM |
| #12 smarter than the average bear! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-27 1:21:09 PM |
| #11 im always a big fan of yogi and the way he fight the man and the oppressor system |
| Posted by: HalfEmpty 2004-04-27 1:13:48 PM |
| #10 CF, I believe the answer is Cindy. 4052 - that was beautiful. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-27 12:35:06 PM |
| #9 Trivia question for the day: What is (or was in this case) the name of Yogi bear's girlfriend? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-04-27 12:26:50 PM |
| #8 The Islamic Republic of Ursustan demands all humans withdraw to south of the Arctic Circle, and provide 6000 Kilograms of Picnic Baskets, and 3000 Kilograms of Honey for the rituals of the prophets, Yogi and Pooh. Signed, Bruno Deuclaugh, Holy Growler, Nome, Alaska |
| Posted by: Anonymous4052 2004-04-27 12:20:35 PM |
| #7 Not that's a self-esteem camp. Was this covered in the liability waiver? They had more tricks ready for Ursus than McCauly Calkin. I was waiting for the bear to trip the yarn trip-wire that released the pendulum -like swinging bucket of Sherwin Williams. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-04-27 12:02:35 PM |
| #6 Bush lied! Bears died! |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-04-27 11:06:16 AM |
| #5 punched the bear repeatedly with his left hand Bears are always a sucker for a straight left. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-27 11:05:53 AM |
| #4 So he's fighting with this 400lb bear, and the bear chases him around a strand of trees, and he runs back and gets an air horn, which wakes everybody up but doesn't stop the bear; and all this is still going on when counselors get out pepper spray and a flare gun from their packs to fire at the bear. Was it dark out? Granted this is Alaska. But this sounds like a good 5-10 minutes of bear knuckled fun. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-04-27 10:47:10 AM |
| #3 Brownbearistan...LOL! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-04-27 10:45:10 AM |
| #2 yep - a fifteen-yr-old in a tent, in bear language is known as a "burrito" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-27 10:45:06 AM |
| #1 Bears, why do they hate us? They don't hate us - we're food!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-27 10:34:54 AM |