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Bears, why do they hate us?
| Thought I'd get that out of the way. |
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.
| Well, if he wasn't troubled before.... |
The boy awoke in the morning to find the 181kg bear sitting at his feet.
| "Yawn, Lassie, is that you.......ohmygodmommyhelp!" |
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.
| "Feet, don't fail me now!" |
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.
| They're camping in Brownbearistan and they don't have a gun? |
| Can you imagine the lawsuit for taking a GUN on a campout for emotionally troubled youths? |
| In Alaska you get emotionally troubled if you DON'T have a gun when camping in bear country. |
Later the same day officials found the bear in the campsite area on Deer Island in south-east Alaska and killed her.
| Insert poor bear comments from muck here(.........) |
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.
| They grow them tough in Barrow. |
Posted by: Steve 2004-04-27 |
