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Feb 13th 2017, 2:56 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Apparently, you can distract them with picnic baskets.

Small children probably help, too.

Feb 13th 2017, 2:59 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Small children probably help, too.

Yes. If you have a supply on hand to throw behind you.

Feb 13th 2017, 3:01 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Violently shitting your pants has got to factor pretty highly up the to-do list in that situation, I have to imagine. Maybe run like **** and try to climb a tree. Bears can't climb trees, right?

I suspect that would also be involved.

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Apparently, you can distract them with picnic baskets.

I thought they were pickernick baskets Boo-Boo.

Feb 13th 2017, 3:06 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Yes. If you have a supply on hand to throw behind you.

There is usually a ready supply of Farcebookers and selfie-takers to provide a distraction where ever bears are found.

Feb 13th 2017, 3:06 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Yes. If you have a supply on hand to throw behind you.

It's got to buy you a few precious minutes, right?

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I suspect that would also be involved.

Probably quite early on in the proceedings, too. Gets it out of the way.

Feb 13th 2017, 3:13 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Apparently, you can distract them with picnic baskets.

Only if the basket contains chocolate cake!

Feb 13th 2017, 3:14 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Yes. If you have a supply on hand to throw behind you.

Good for the 19 Kids and Counting family or the Partridges

Feb 13th 2017, 8:13 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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I agree. I'm sure they have been wandering the woods as we have walked by but the presence of a 120lb dog may make them more likely to attack.

The likelihood of hitting a bear with a handgun at 50ft is probably zero. I would likely only get a hit shot if they were within 10 feet at which point, he's likely charging. I'd still rather get a shot off at that point.

I have considered what I would do in that situation. First off, I would shoot into the ground in the hope the noise would scare them off but I have no idea how I would really react in the heat of the moment. I hope to never find out.

Be careful not to shoot yourself in the foot. You'll need it for running not that it would do you much good since a full grown bear can hit around 35 MPH going full tilt.

Another thing with bears is that once they've decided to latch onto you they don't back off.

Feb 13th 2017, 8:14 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Another thing with bears is that once they've decided to latch onto you they don't back off.

So if you don't return their calls right away they start getting weird?

What if they see you talking to that wolf that one time when you were supposed to meet them to get mauled and eaten? Game over, man.

Goddamn clingy bears - not even once.

Feb 13th 2017, 8:17 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Be careful not to shoot yourself in the foot. You'll need it for running not that it would do you much good since a full grown bear can hit around 35 MPH going full tilt.

Another thing with bears is that once they've decided to latch onto you they don't back off.

Well, if I take the wife with me, I don't need to outrun the bear

Feb 13th 2017, 8:21 pm

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Re: WTF in America

I knew a guy who was a Tube Driver and I know it happened to him and he was an instructor so had to cover the strawberry jam situation.

Not an option in CO.

Most of the news stories recently seem to be skiers hitting trees, seem to be quick.

Feb 13th 2017, 8:23 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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Have you been at the cooking sherry again, Boiler?

Feb 13th 2017, 8:24 pm

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Re: WTF in America

You offering?

Feb 13th 2017, 9:04 pm

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Re: WTF in America

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You offering?

I'll take that as carte blanche; Gordon Sinclair was a reporter on the Toronto Star at the same time as Ernest Hemmingway, and was high in the mountain passes of Afghanistan when WW2 started. He was recalled from that assignment to cover the war in Europe.