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The Guy Who Was Just Eaten By a Grizzly Went Within 120 Feet of the Bear To Take Pictures
What a dumb bastard.
Authorities looked through the moron’s camera and saw an 8 minute session where the hiker got closer and closer to the bear WHILE THE BEAR WAS EATING!
The bear obviously interpreted this as an animal stalking his food cache. This is all part of the Doctor Doolittle mindset of people who think they can “communicate with animals” by sending out their great karma into the ether.
The Daily Mail has the story.
66chevelle
August 27th, 2012
Algy met a bear,
The bear saw Algy.
The bear was bulgy,
The bulge was Algy
serfer62
August 27th, 2012
And the Darwin award goes to….
Alby
Doc
August 27th, 2012
Maybe he wanted to prove all those people wrong who said he wouldn’t amount to shit?
Team TEA
August 27th, 2012
Well bears gotta eat too! One less moron in the gene pool.
Noodengr
August 27th, 2012
he looks too young to remember the TV show Gentle Ben. So the family can’t claim it was the network’s fault that he did not know it was dangerous to get close.
serfer62 good observation Love the annual reading of folks that help clean up the gene pool.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
Blamestorming committee deadlocked between Bush and Palin.
Plain Jane
August 27th, 2012
Sounds like assisted suicide by bear.
Doc
August 27th, 2012
What pisses me off is the fact that they KILLED THE BEAR for just doing what bears do! So what if he ate some dumb shit trespasser.
Plain Jane
August 27th, 2012
May his soul rest in peace, through the mercy of God.
Doc
August 27th, 2012
It would really be ironic if this moron were wearing a PETA T-Shirt.
Will Profit
August 27th, 2012
Here Yogi…c’mon Yogi…I’ve got a sammich for you Yogi…just a little closer Yogi…stand still while I focus my camera Yogi… smile Yogi…let go of my leg Yogi…
uncivil & right
August 27th, 2012
Cosmic Bear haiku
Bear eating
Man watching
Dessert in wilderness
msq
August 27th, 2012
So? how did the pictures turn out?
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
Tombstone at the entrance to The Haunted Castle in Disneyland: “Thar lies Uncle Dave
Chased a bar into a cave.”
Will Profit
August 27th, 2012
I’ll bet the guy was an Obama supporter and Mitt Romney told the bear to kill him.
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
Plain Jane: And the bear said “Thank you oh Lord and this idiot, thy gift, which I am about to eat.”
Claudia
August 27th, 2012
I agree with Doc. Too bad they couldn’t have revived the man and killed him again for being so stupid.
GreatScott
August 27th, 2012
At long last, he will finally know the answer to the question “Do bears shit in the woods?”
WiscoDave
August 27th, 2012
Irony is that he was probably a “Looney” animal lover that through his stupidity directly caused the death of a bear who, as stated above, was just being a bear…
I Luv Bacon
August 27th, 2012
I wonder if survivor man there and the drowned bride were honeymooning separately?
Hmmmm
Snowball the Sourpuss
August 27th, 2012
Take only pictures…leave only footprints. Oh, and a big pile of bear shit.
Will Profit
August 27th, 2012
Did the bear stream the event live on any social media?
Dr. Tar
August 27th, 2012
The Park Officals warned hikers to stay a quarter mile from the bears. Nature boy got within 40 feet.
Proves my point that there are times the smartest people (this guy being a director of exploratory pharmacology) are the dumbest.
This is why you get the big telephoto lens on your cameras if your going to take wildlife pics.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
@Dr. Tar
“Nature boy got within 40 feet.”
Actually Nature boy got within 0 feet.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
or maybe -3 feet.
Will Profit
August 27th, 2012
“Hey Boo Boo, see the rube with the camera? Watch this.”
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
A bear and a rabbit are taking a crap in the woods.
The bear turns to the rabbit and asks conversationally: “You ever have a
problem with crap sticking to your fur?”
The rabbit, smugly, replies: “Nope, never.”
The bear says “Good to hear it,” picks up the rabbit and wipes his ass with the bunny.
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
Mr. White had a “safety whistle” for protection.
A State Trooper shot and killed the bear, a 5 year old grizzly. Investigators examined the stomach and, yep, they found the whistle.
It’s a shame they killed the bear.
Doc
August 27th, 2012
Hey Hey Hey Boo Boo, I’m faster than the average white boy!
persecutor
August 27th, 2012
Bet he tasted like chicken
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
This is a great video. It’s footage from an Easton Bow Hunting segment. It’s jaw dropping how fast something that big can move. Worth the watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbnmLLnsfw
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Brooke
August 27th, 2012
I’m with you, Doc. They killed the bear to prove this guy was an asshat idiot?!?
Mess with the bull, get the horns.
Look at the bear and her food, get the ginormous effin’ claws and teeth!
serfer62
August 27th, 2012
Have you people no empathy?
Guess not
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
gasp
hahahahahahahahahha
geofraz
August 27th, 2012
The Daily Mail article said that instead of a firearm or even ‘Bear Spray’, this idiot brought a whistle. Really? A fuckin’ whistle?! I’m sorry but I find the image of this guy blowing his lungs out on that fucking whistle til ol’ Ben bit his face off somehow a just end to inferior genes.
Necrophidius
August 27th, 2012
I wont even go near my two year old while he is eating. Some people are missing a survival instinct and a brain that says O Shit.
simply enraged
August 27th, 2012
ThThthththat’s all folks!
Joe
August 27th, 2012
I’d like all of you to be at my funeral. We’ll need a few wise cracks and some humor there. I’m sure you can make a joke or two.
Don’t you know that the guy’s life is worth far more than a bear?
Tim
August 27th, 2012
Wait! You mean bears don’t dance and sing like in the Disney movies and toilet paper commercials!??!
They’re not all snuggley-wuggley like Pooh!??!
Damn! I just may need therapy … and a lawyer.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
“So? how did the pictures turn out?”
Bearable.
Tim
August 27th, 2012
@Joe,
Apparently he didn’t think so …
Necrophidius
August 27th, 2012
We punished the bear for doing what it does. And the bear punished Richard for acting like Grizzly Adams. Hard to feel sorry for him.
Da Bears
August 27th, 2012
The season hasn’t even started yet, and we’re already 1-0!
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 27th, 2012
Stupidity’s many martyrs have not advanced their cause much, have they?
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 27th, 2012
He wasn’t recently married to a blonde Canadian woman, was he?
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 27th, 2012
@Brooke: “They killed the bear to prove this guy was an asshat idiot?!?”
Nope, because now that bear knows that humans are edible and easy to kill.
Jack Daniels
August 27th, 2012
no sympathy here
Jack Daniels
August 27th, 2012
Incidentally, that means I have no sympathy, I am not referring to any of the comments made.
Da Bears
August 27th, 2012
@Jack Daniels: “Incidentally, that means I have no sympathy, I am not referring to any of the comments made.”
*urp* No worries.
Danne
August 27th, 2012
This guy must be related to Timothy Treadwell, also previously of Calif.!
AbigailAdams
August 27th, 2012
this is tragic on so many levels. It reminds me of the recent story of the kid who shot himself in the head playing Russian Roulette: avoidable, sheer stupidity, a sense of immortality. Given how easily people can access the partk, I was surprised that Denali never had a bear mauling up ’til now.
We parents have a lot of work to undo some of the cultural BS inculcated to our kids by society and schools. The biggest challenge is to get them to understand the laws of nature apply equally to them.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 27th, 2012
And I DON’T feel sorry for his 2 year old child. At least she won’t grow up with that moron for a role model.
Imagine had this idiot not committed this lunacy, he would have been free to take his daughter to “see the cuddly-wuddly bears.”
Unfortunately, his genes are still alive. Some sociologist should follow his daughter and see if she has an i-don’t-understand-that-civilization-is-meant-to-keep-nature-out death wish too.
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
From my Kindergarten class circa 1946.
“If you go down the woods today
Your sure of a big surprize
It’s lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home.
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today is the day the Teddy Bears
Have their PIC NIC.”
Sister Philomena, St. Mary’s
Moe Tom
August 27th, 2012
You got it. None of that bear-huggin’ bullshit from
Sister Philomena. She’d rip your ears off herself.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
I used to be a caver. We were trained, extremely safety conscious, and always checked out entrances carefully before we entered. I told a coworker about some of our outings and he was interested in trying it but never had the time since he was raising 3 young children alone. One weekend he took the kids hiking in a park in NW North Carolina and found a small cave. Dad led the way (totally unprepared without a flashlight) and the kids (6-11) followed. The youngest, a girl, said “Daddy look at the fuzzy rock” but was ignored. After a few minutes of exploring and stumbling around, they started hearing snuffles and snorts and Dad realized they had entered a den of hibernating bears who were now awakening. They made a hasty retreat and managed to get away without incident.
My coworker would have deserved whatever he got – he was a supposedly responsible adult – but I shudder to think what could have happened to those children.
Idiot.
Zombie Richard White
August 27th, 2012
If you’ll notice, the article said that I “had been the director of exploratory pharmacology at Ferring Pharmaceuticals in San Diego,” and that I “was in the process of changing jobs.” It’s true! I’m moving into fertilizer.
even steven
August 27th, 2012
I made a bet yesterday before details were released that the guy was from California. I won a twelve pack! Woohoo!
solomon
August 27th, 2012
nom nom nom…. urp.
Carlos The Jackal
August 27th, 2012
According to his agent, Yogi Bear had no comment.
“The National Park Rangers are advising hikers in Glacier National Park and other Rocky Mountain parks to be alert for bears and take extra precautions to avoid an encounter.
They advise park visitors to wear little bells on their clothes so they make noise when hiking. The bell noise allows bears to hear them coming from a distance and not be startled by a hiker accidentally sneaking up on them. This might cause a bear to charge.
Visitors should also carry a pepper spray can just in case a bear is encountered. Spraying the pepper into the air will irritate the bear’s sensitive nose and it will run away.
It is also a good idea to keep an eye out for fresh bear scat so you have an idea if bears are in the area. People should be able to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat.
Black bear droppings are smaller and often contain berries, leaves, and possibly bits of fur. Grizzly bear droppings tend to contain small bells and smell of pepper.”
“…bits of Fur?!?!” I TOLD him to stay out of that park! – Irony
IronyCurtain
August 27th, 2012
This would be like wandering into Detroit or Camden in the hopes you could talk sense to the natives before they kill you.
IronyCurtain
August 27th, 2012
Brian Regan said it best on Gentle Ben…
ruble
August 27th, 2012
He’s got to be in the running for the Dawin award, 2012.
Nutjob
August 27th, 2012
Imagine if you’re a bear eating berries or a deer carcass in a place you live and then suddenly see this odd looking porkchop with a camera walking towards you..
Everytime I hear a story about dilly dally dumbshit was eaten as he jogged through bear country.
I applaud the bear.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
Irony Curtain FTW.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 27th, 2012
@ruble: “He’s got to be in the running for the Dawin award, 2012″
Not eligible for a Darwin Award – he has a kid.
Corona
August 27th, 2012
“Fellows, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half assed autopsy on a bear. And I’m not going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that Richard White guy spill out all over the rocks.”
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
Awesome video Brad. Pretty cool to know that a Grizz stops the charge with a simple BANG!
mkultra
August 27th, 2012
Dear Liberals, Please don’t let the misfortune of one man sour you on the idea of communing with ferocious 10-foot predators in their natural habitat. The bears are perfectly safe to commune with. Naked. Smothered in peanut butter.
Unruly Refugee
August 28th, 2012
Two worst times for bear contact are in the spring and the fall. Spring time most people are attacked walking past a den with mother and cubs in it. Bears are protective of the youngins. In the fall the bears are fattening up for the winter hibernation and if you approach them they will think you are after their food supply and will attack.
Walking up on a bear and surprising them will guarantee an attack just as will getting between a mother and her cubs.
If you shoot a bear you will most likely just piss it off and it will give you more of a thrashing because of that.
Bear spray and common sense go a long way in the wilderness.
Bears actually make for good neighbors as they keep the idiots away.
This has been a public service announcement from somebody who has to go eat lunch and sweep out the cabin before company arrives.
Nutjob
August 30th, 2012
Looking at this idiot, I recall probably one of the funniest comments on here I’ve seen in a while next to mine (damn I sound as narcassistic as Borock)
Someone mentioned about Timothy Treadwell not believing in gun control either and all he could do was scream while being eaten by the bears he befriended…………..I still have tears in my eyes from that one….I swear windex has made alot of money off of me from spewing on my screen.
Whoever made that comment………cheers from Nutjob for funniest comment of the year.