07-30-2010, 10:05 AM
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/su...r/19573356
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/su...r/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.