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Bear mauls teen during 24-hour mountain bike race in Alaska
Unfortunately, the response will probably be to kill the bear, rather
than to cancel the races. Humans have no business mountain bike racing for 24 hours, giving the wildlife no time to use their habitat! Mike Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:01:01 +0000 Subject: Bear mauls teen during 24-hour bike race in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anchorage police say a teenage girl taking part in a 24-hour bike race was severely injured after a grizzly bear attack. The girl was riding early Sunday on a park trail when attacked. She used her cell phone to call 911 but was unable to communicate. Another biker found the mauled girl around 1:30 a.m. and called police. Medics were escorted by officers with shotguns into the dark woods to retrieve the girl. -- I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
On Jun 30, 12:11*am, Mike Vandeman wrote:
Typical selfish hiker... http://news.aol.ca/article/bc-grizzl...rvivor/252399/ A man from B.C.'s Interior not only survived being mauled by a grizzly - he killed the bear as well. John Shorter, 38, was hiking near Dease Lake in Northern B.C. Tuesday when he said he smelled a bear in the area. "I heard a woofing sound, turned, seen a grizz coming at me. I managed to get my rifle up and get one round into the chest.... At that point he got on top of me, obviously, and took me down," Shorter said. "He proceeded to try to maul me in the back of the scalp and on the neck, and I protected my neck with my hands. They got fairly chewed up." The bear was biting at his hands, which were covering his neck, so he dropped his rifle. He scrambled to get it back, eventually putting some distance between himself and the bear. He shot the animal a second time, this time killing it. "You just put yourself in overdrive and try and not get yourself killed," Shorter said. "It's an amazing amount of adrenaline going through yourself.... You get lots of thoughts going through your mind but you think about, obviously, your family and it's worth living, so fight." After killing the bear, Shorter picked up his rifle and staggered back to his vehicle. "I got back in my pickup, grabbed a drink of water, got my thoughts straight. I noticed my shoulder was dislocated. I managed to pop it in myself and thought I'd better go and get some help," Shorter said. He drove to the nearby community of Iskut for medical treatment. Shorter escaped the attack with what he called minor injuries. He received 40 stitches, and suffered a broken hand and multiple puncture wounds. "You know, if you're in that situation, all you can do is fight for all you got. I mean, I don't think I'm any different from anyone else," he said. Shorter is still recovering at his home in Smithers. Conservation officials continue to investigate the attack. |
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Simply amazing. A newsgroup made up almost entirely of troll dung. I came,
I saw, I'm washing off my feet and going back to my life. |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
On Jun 30, 6:48 am, Siskuwihane wrote:
On Jun 30, 12:11 am, Mike Vandeman wrote: Typical selfish hiker... http://news.aol.ca/article/bc-grizzl...rvivor/252399/ A man from B.C.'s Interior not only survived being mauled by a grizzly - he killed the bear as well. John Shorter, 38, was hiking near Dease Lake in Northern B.C. Tuesday when he said he smelled a bear in the area. "I heard a woofing sound, turned, seen a grizz coming at me. I managed to get my rifle up and get one round into the chest.... At that point he got on top of me, obviously, and took me down," Shorter said. "He proceeded to try to maul me in the back of the scalp and on the neck, and I protected my neck with my hands. They got fairly chewed up." The bear was biting at his hands, which were covering his neck, so he dropped his rifle. He scrambled to get it back, eventually putting some distance between himself and the bear. He shot the animal a second time, this time killing it. "You just put yourself in overdrive and try and not get yourself killed," Shorter said. "It's an amazing amount of adrenaline going through yourself.... You get lots of thoughts going through your mind but you think about, obviously, your family and it's worth living, so fight." After killing the bear, Shorter picked up his rifle and staggered back to his vehicle. "I got back in my pickup, grabbed a drink of water, got my thoughts straight. I noticed my shoulder was dislocated. I managed to pop it in myself and thought I'd better go and get some help," Shorter said. He drove to the nearby community of Iskut for medical treatment. Shorter escaped the attack with what he called minor injuries. He received 40 stitches, and suffered a broken hand and multiple puncture wounds. "You know, if you're in that situation, all you can do is fight for all you got. I mean, I don't think I'm any different from anyone else," he said. Shorter is still recovering at his home in Smithers. Conservation officials continue to investigate the attack. I guess following MV's logic, humans have no business hiking in the wilds and giving the animals no time to use their habitat. |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:05:02 -0700 (PDT), bluezfolk
wrote: On Jun 30, 6:48 am, Siskuwihane wrote: On Jun 30, 12:11 am, Mike Vandeman wrote: Typical selfish hiker... http://news.aol.ca/article/bc-grizzl...rvivor/252399/ A man from B.C.'s Interior not only survived being mauled by a grizzly - he killed the bear as well. John Shorter, 38, was hiking near Dease Lake in Northern B.C. Tuesday when he said he smelled a bear in the area. "I heard a woofing sound, turned, seen a grizz coming at me. I managed to get my rifle up and get one round into the chest.... At that point he got on top of me, obviously, and took me down," Shorter said. "He proceeded to try to maul me in the back of the scalp and on the neck, and I protected my neck with my hands. They got fairly chewed up." The bear was biting at his hands, which were covering his neck, so he dropped his rifle. He scrambled to get it back, eventually putting some distance between himself and the bear. He shot the animal a second time, this time killing it. "You just put yourself in overdrive and try and not get yourself killed," Shorter said. "It's an amazing amount of adrenaline going through yourself.... You get lots of thoughts going through your mind but you think about, obviously, your family and it's worth living, so fight." After killing the bear, Shorter picked up his rifle and staggered back to his vehicle. "I got back in my pickup, grabbed a drink of water, got my thoughts straight. I noticed my shoulder was dislocated. I managed to pop it in myself and thought I'd better go and get some help," Shorter said. He drove to the nearby community of Iskut for medical treatment. Shorter escaped the attack with what he called minor injuries. He received 40 stitches, and suffered a broken hand and multiple puncture wounds. "You know, if you're in that situation, all you can do is fight for all you got. I mean, I don't think I'm any different from anyone else," he said. Shorter is still recovering at his home in Smithers. Conservation officials continue to investigate the attack. I guess following MV's logic, humans have no business hiking in the wilds and giving the animals no time to use their habitat. That's what I've said from the beginning: wildlife need and deserve habitat off-limits to humans. -- I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
On Jul 1, 8:55*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:05:02 -0700 (PDT), bluezfolk wrote: On Jun 30, 6:48 am, Siskuwihane wrote: On Jun 30, 12:11 am, Mike Vandeman wrote: Typical selfish hiker... http://news.aol.ca/article/bc-grizzl...rvivor/252399/ A man from B.C.'s Interior not only survived being mauled by a grizzly - he killed the bear as well. John Shorter, 38, was hiking near Dease Lake in Northern B.C. Tuesday when he said he smelled a bear in the area. "I heard a woofing sound, turned, seen a grizz coming at me. I managed to get my rifle up and get one round into the chest.... At that point he got on top of me, obviously, and took me down," Shorter said. "He proceeded to try to maul me in the back of the scalp and on the neck, and I protected my neck with my hands. They got fairly chewed up." The bear was biting at his hands, which were covering his neck, so he dropped his rifle. He scrambled to get it back, eventually putting some distance between himself and the bear. He shot the animal a second time, this time killing it. "You just put yourself in overdrive and try and not get yourself killed," Shorter said. "It's an amazing amount of adrenaline going through yourself.... You get lots of thoughts going through your mind but you think about, obviously, your family and it's worth living, so fight." After killing the bear, Shorter picked up his rifle and staggered back to his vehicle. "I got back in my pickup, grabbed a drink of water, got my thoughts straight. I noticed my shoulder was dislocated. I managed to pop it in myself and thought I'd better go and get some help," Shorter said. He drove to the nearby community of Iskut for medical treatment. Shorter escaped the attack with what he called minor injuries. He received 40 stitches, and suffered a broken hand and multiple puncture wounds. "You know, if you're in that situation, all you can do is fight for all you got. I mean, I don't think I'm any different from anyone else," he said. Shorter is still recovering at his home in Smithers. Conservation officials continue to investigate the attack. I guess following MV's logic, humans have no business hiking in the wilds and giving the animals no time to use their habitat. That's what I've said from the beginning: wildlife need and deserve habitat off-limits to humans. Sorry, you are a mountain-biker, Michael J. Vandeman, and what you say is not to be trusted. |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
"Siskuwihane" wrote in message ... That's what I've said from the beginning: wildlife need and deserve habitat off-limits to humans. Sorry, you are a mountain-biker, Michael J. Vandeman, and what you say is not to be trusted. JS Mike Vandeman is an idiot that is not to be trusted. He lies and distorts the truth and ignores facts that do not fit his agenda. If Mike has his way, you will go to a museum and pay money to see what nature looks like. He advocates maiming people, or supports advocates that actually do maim people. /JS |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:51:38 -0700, "Jeff Strickland"
wrote: "Siskuwihane" wrote in message ... That's what I've said from the beginning: wildlife need and deserve habitat off-limits to humans. Sorry, you are a mountain-biker, Michael J. Vandeman, Liar. and what you say is not to be trusted. JS Mike Vandeman is an idiot that is not to be trusted. He lies and distorts the truth and ignores facts that do not fit his agenda. If Mike has his way, you will go to a museum and pay money to see what nature looks like. He advocates maiming people, or supports advocates that actually do maim people. /JS -- I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road construction.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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Bears mauls hiker in BC, Hiker Then Kills Bear.
"Mike Vandeman" wrote in message ... On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:51:38 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" wrote: "Siskuwihane" wrote in message ... That's what I've said from the beginning: wildlife need and deserve habitat off-limits to humans. Sorry, you are a mountain-biker, Michael J. Vandeman, Liar. You are calling the wrong person a liar, Liar. You should learn how to post, idiot. |
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