15 Y.O. Boy Fights Off Bear Attack - Punches 180kg Bear In Face

[matcom]

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A 15-year-old boy on an Alaskan wilderness expedition fought off a 180kg brown bear that entered his tent when he was sleeping.

The boy awoke to find the bear sitting at his feet.

After trying unsuccessfully to back out of the tent, the boy was bitten in the forearm and decided to fight back, punching the bear with his left hand a half-dozen times, Alaska State Trooper Adam Benson said today.

When the teenager tried to run, the bear bit him again below his ribs, this time leaving half-a-dozen puncture wounds on his back, Benson said.

The boy punched the bear again, and again she let him go, but chased him around a nearby stand of trees. He eventually remembered an air horn in his gear, and blew it in the bear's muzzle, waking others in the camp, said Steve Prysunka, director of the six week “Crossing Wilderness Expeditions for Youth” program for emotionally troubled youths.

The bear finally turned and ran after counsellors blasted her with pepper spray and fired a flare at her feet, Prysunka said.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9404344%255E13762,00.html

[Loonman]

1. That's 397 lbs

For us folks who hate metrics.

[joeybee12]

2. Where the hell do you find these stories????

Used to hear that you should play dead with bears, now I guess the reasoning is to fight back--or at leats make yourself appear ferocious, and the bear will back down.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. So an already emotionally troubled kid

gets to add post-traumatic shock to his list of problems.

[Loonman]

4. What's he gonna do?

Sue the bear?

[Exultant Democracy]

5. The only way to get his man hood back is to find the

Bear and kick it's ass.

[cleofus1]

7. too late

they found the bear and killed it.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. If the kid gets hung up on technicalities he won't ever get revenge

I think one bear is as good as another, they all look the same.

[underpants]

6. Old joke told by Matt Suhe about Walter Payton

Suhe (the Fullback for the Bears -oddly- at the time) said that he and Payton were on a hunting trip in Alaska. Payton woke Suhe up and told him, "Put on your shoes there is a bear outside". Suhe said to Payton, "Are you crazy you will never outrun a bear!"

Payton said, "I don't have to outrun the bear...I just have to outrun YOU!"

:bounce:

[cleofus1]

8. he left out some old rice o roni! ooops...

"Late Saturday afternoon, another trooper and a couple of U.S. Forest Service employees returned to the campsite area, found the sow and killed her. There were no signs she had any cubs with her.

The boy had some Rice-A-Roni he wanted to keep."He said: 'No, don't take this. I'm going to eat this in a little while,' " Benson said. "Apparently he fell asleep before he got it done. There was some food left at the foot of his tent."

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/5010707p-4938790c.html

[DS1]

10. There was this one night in Tijuana, well, maybe I shouldn't

bring it up, I'm still scarred :evilgrin: