Grizzly victim drives 25 km for help
VANCOUVER — British Columbians are being warned to be extra vigilant of bear attacks after a man was mauled by a 1000 pound grizzly on Saturday. Brent Case, 53, was doing surveying work for a power company just east of Bella Coola when, he told his son, “he felt like someone was watching him.” “[The bear] initially grabbed him and threw him to the ground,” Dean Case said. “It was kind of boggy where he was and he fell down and there was a log nearby, so he tried to . . . put himself under the log. But the bear grabbed him by the other arm and pulled him out from under there.” The younger Case said “after the bear pulled him back out and chomped on the back of his head, he thought he was going to die.”
His father wasn’t dead, but he pretended to be while the bear jumped up and down on him several times, then finally wandered off. In spite of severe gashes on his head and upper arm, bites to his elbow and knee and bleeding profusely, he managed to drive his pickup truck about 25 kilometres out of the bush to a nearby settlement. “I knew right away he’d been attacked by something,” said Rob Sandford who initially helped Case. “What I could see [he was] basically covered in blood.” “The stitches are stapled all over the back and the side of his head, and over his upper arm,” Dean Case said. “He’s a pretty smart guy and he kept his face down when it was happening, so he doesn’t have any damage to his face.” Bella Coola, on the central coast, is 700 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.
“We’ve just come through a long winter so I would imagine any of the bears that are just now emerging from hibernation are hungry and that probably means they’re a little bit grumpy.”
Grumpy? I’d hate to see him when he’s angry.
>>I get the feeling that some of your don’t
>>get out of the city much… you should try
>>it sometime, maybe you’d learn something.
Well, if it’s good, why can’t we BUY IT in the cities? They don’t catch puffer fish in the lakes around here, but I can still buy it at “city” sushi bars. Same with venison. Same with fresh-water eel. How come no celebrity chef has come up with a gourmet dinner made out of elk or moose?
#21 – Mister Mustard,
I’ve eaten moose. Just a bit in Alaska. Would you rather they decimate the land with cattle ranching, as if they could? The population is low enough there to sustain moose hunting.
I’ve also eaten caribou and snow goose in the high arctic. Similar logic applies.
As for hunting bear, some do. I personally hunt only with a Canon. I’ve heard that induhviduals who claim to eat bear are mostly liars. They want the bear skin rug. The meat tastes like old shoes, according to a guide we had near Winnipeg.
Mister Mustard: Well, if it’s good, why can’t we BUY IT in the cities?
For the same reason you don’t throw pearl to pigs, Mr. Mustard. There are all sorts of things that are held back from people with irresistible urges to solve everything with a credit card.
#30 – Ben,
I reckon you’d be better off playing it safe by wearing a life jacket when you are walking in the woods, because you are more likely to fall into a river or lake and drown then get killed by a bear.
ROFLMAO!!! And, it’s probably true as well.
I hear that bear meat tastes like hunter.
Lol…sure can tell the city slickers as well as the brainy Americans.
lol… haha