The Last Person To Post Wins #58

Snagletooth wrote:

cecht wrote:

Snagletooth wrote:

 I got in a fight with a biker gang over a parking spot. I lost. Can I get a sympathy win for my broken arm?

You are a winner in our hearts. That must have been a helluva good parking spot you had your eye on.

 

The best. I believe there may also have been a bear involved. I couldn’t remember whether I was supposed curl up in a ball and pretend to be dead, or climb a tree. 

When confronted by a bear the best thing to do is to be able to run faster than anyone else with you! Bears maul things when they catch them and peoples heads often up inside the bears mouth and when it comes out it has holes in it!! As for climbing trees bears are VERY FAST!! The couple things that may work is making yourself appear bigger and badder than it is, but if you wait until it gets close that won't work, the 2nd thing is a spray that they dislike intensely but most people don't have that stuff handy. A gun can work too, but a small one will just make it madder!!

I lived in Alaska for 3 years and they were everywhere so they taught us what to do in school. Bears don't like noisy things, they are not curious about strange noises and will run away instead of investigating, so the key in the woods is to be as noisy as you can be and they will give you a wide berth.

The last few months I was in Alaska we were moved from our house into a motel type place as it took a LONG time for our furniture to get from there to the next place, my dad was in the Air Force, and a medium sized brown bear came into the apartment building next to ours. A soldier decided his 9mm handgun would kill or scare the bear off so he came out of his apartment and started shooting at the bear, he saw the bear and ran in to get his gun and when he came back out the bear stood up and filled the WHOLE HALLWAYS with it's body!! He shot all 7 rounds at the bear only hitting it twice because the bear was walking towards him!!! He hit in the paw and the jaw and then it ran off, they knew he hit it because there was blood on the wall. The pro hunters tracked it down and killed it as wounded bears tend to go for the easier food sources and that's often people and their pets. When they killed it they found the two wounds on it, the soldier said he was shaking sooo badly he wasn't sure he even hit it as when it turned around to run away it was less than 7 feet away from him and he thought he was going to be eaten!! They found 7 bullet holes in the walls and ceiling but fortunately none went far enough to hurt anyone else. He had one target and it filled the WHOLE HALLWAY and still mostly missed it, bears are scary things when they are coming for YOU!!!