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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris on June 10, 2009, 03:01:30 PM
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As an angry grizzly bear tossed around James Wanyandie, leaving his left arm busted and useless, the 39-year-old Alberta man was sure he was as good as dead.
“Right away I saw that bear behind the tree come cruising straight at me. I fired. I don't know if I missed or hit it. But it just kept on coming. I moved a little bit to the side and it went by, turned around and just grabbed me on the arm,” James said. “It swung me around and wrestled me.”
Tom intervened, jabbing and whacking the bear as he hollered. That's when the sow turned its attention to the older man.
Helpless, James couldn't reload the gun and watched the bear attack his father – Tom would break a hand in the melee. As the animal bounded back toward James, grabbing his legs and dragging him, Tom proved he still had some fight left in him.
He lay on the ground in the bush near Grande Cache, as he watched his elderly father, Tom, charge toward the attacking bear, yelling and using every Cree swear word he knew. And then, Tom, who is no ordinary senior citizen, took his walking stick, a branch picked up earlier off the ground, and rammed it down the animal's throat.
“He ran at it and stood his ground and swore at it again. It either ran or walked away,” James recalled.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/feisty-senior-sticks-it-to-grizzly/article1175588/
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Gutsy guy.
When the "fight or flight" instinct kicks in with bears, it looks like there's only one alternative - fight. Damn things are FAST.
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It's a good tip, at any rate. Go for the eyes or the throat. :-)