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No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - Doc - 07-30-2010
With bears, you play dead.
Yes, it actually works. It saved this woman's life.
(Although, if she'd blown an air horn or smacked some pots and pans together that might have also worked.)
Unfortunately, others were not so lucky.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/suspected-killer-bear-trapped-survivor-deb-freele-recounts-terror/19573356
Freele, an avid camper from London, Ontario, thinks she survived only because she played dead.
"It was a split second before something just told me something was wrong," Freele told ABC. "I woke up and the bear bit down on me. I screamed, and he bit down harder. I screamed some more, and he continued to bite and shake, and I could hear my bones breaking."
"I don't know if you call it instinct, but something inside me just said ... 'I want to live.' And I just told myself, 'Play dead,'" she said on CBS's "The Early Show." After a few seconds, the bear opened his jaws and let Freele go.
The AP said Freele suffered lacerations and crushed bones on her arms. The other injured survivor, Ronald Singer, 21 of Alamosa, Colo., had puncture wounds on a calf.
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - Markiscool - 07-30-2010
n/t
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - michaelb - 07-30-2010
I don't see this situation as funny. At this point we dont' know what happened or why.
Playing dead is the standard recommendation for a last second response when charged or attacked by a Grizzly. Unclear if that applies to a bear that is behaving bizarrely and attacking multiple humans in a random manner in a campsite; but probably not.
Playing dead is not recommended for black bears. The general recommendation is to fight back, including punching in the face and eyes if at all possible.
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - the_poochies - 07-30-2010
Everything I need to know in life I learned from Elmer Fudd:
"When confwonted by a gwizzwy beaw, wie fwat on the gwound and pway dead. Above all, wemain absowutely motionwess!"
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - btfc - 07-30-2010
http://cbs4denver.com/national/bear.Ronald.Singer.2.1831514.html
"Unclear if that applies to a bear that is behaving bizarrely and attacking multiple humans in a random manner in a campsite; but probably not."
Yes, it is generally advised to fight back in such a situation, as it is likely the bear is treating you as prey. There is much about this incident that is unusual.
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - bfd - 07-30-2010
Mother bear - 3 cubs - what could go wrong?
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-31-2010
Sharks have frikkin' lasers on their heads - you'd never get close enough to punch one.
Re: No, you fool! You're supposed to punch SHARKS in the face. With BEARS you... - Speedy - 07-31-2010
When they have your leg in their mouth you are close enough to start punching.
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Sharks have frikkin' lasers on their heads - you'd never get close enough to punch one.