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Bears
I respect bears! We are not always at the top of the food chain.
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Bears.
Beets. Battlestar Gallactica. (I can't be the only one who thought of Dwight Schrute when I read the title...) |
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but you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than to be attacked by a bear!
heres how statistics work. The chance of being killed by a bear while visiting Yellowstone National Park is 1 in 2.1 million. those odds shrink to 50/50 when you turn the corner on a bear. |
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When you swim in the ocean, you have an almost zero chance of being stung by a bee. Meandering in a forest full of wildflowers, you don't have to worry about sharks.
Packing heat can protect from bears, but not from sharks or bees. Statistics are meaningless.. ![]() |
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I've had my run ins. It is un-nerving when something that should run away from you stands on it's hind legs and growls at you. There is that moment when you want to run. Last time was a small sun bear. He didn't like my buddy and I. He stood his ground swaying back and forth. I thought he might be rabid ( one of those happened over on the eastern Az/NM line). Blast from an MP5 chanced his mind and he ran.
I know back in the late 70s I did not want to be on a seismic crew with a woman in Northern Canada. |
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and also why you go fishing w/ a 12 gauge pump loaded w/ alternating rounds of 00-Buck and slugs, you learn to fish w/ it slung on your shoulder, head on a swivel and eyes in the back of your head
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Many years ago in Alaska while returning from a offshore oil rig my Hughes chopper pilot decided to harass some grizzly bears fishing in a stream,,, we hovered maybe 10 feet above some very large and impressive animals,,, the pilot was smaller than me and I told him if anything happened he was going to be fed to the bears first,,, as all pilots should be.
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I wrestled a bear once. It was at the Marion County Fair. The bear won.
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i thought this was DA BEARS
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