One tough camper!

[Титан]

This is from up in the Northwest Territory & this chap is lucky to be alive. The guy survived the bear attack. It jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent but he managed to get it off of him and shoot it . This would make you seriously think about sleeping in shifts, if you were working in Bear Country like some of the Oil Industry people.

[Andad]

OMG, he was one lucky camper.

[The GMT Master]

Ouch! Lucky man indeed

[Титан]

I did not post what his foot looked like, it was bad, someone would have been offended.

[cjcar631]

WOW, when he heals up is he gonna' have a story to tell the grandkids!

[diversified]

One of the many reasons I think that camping should be done at the Ritz Carlton!

[Kapture1]

OMG! Polar bears are mean

[Dan Pierce]

Originally Posted by diversified

One of the many reasons I think that camping should be done at the Ritz Carlton!

dP

[Dr.Brian]

Originally Posted by diversified

One of the many reasons I think that camping should be done at the Ritz Carlton!

I'm with you. My idea of roughing it is having to stay at the Ritz-Carlton because there were no rooms at the Four Seasons!

[Rolesor]

that looks terrible! I wonder what provoked the bear to attack?

[JBat]

Jesus, that's nasty. I can still find a spot in my heart to feel bad for the bear, though. He was just doing what bears do.

[Dr.B]

Wow, he is lucky to be alive.

[Ed Rooney]

So he was camping next to a river, when it is common knowledge that bears feed there at dawn and at dusk.

I'm a city guy and even I know not to do that.



Good thing the police showed up quickly and shot the bear for him.

[keschete]

I don't know how many of you have actually seen a live polar bear up close...but I was lucky enough to visit a zoo that had a pair and OMG! They are huge. I never expected them to be so much larger than grizzly bears. I certainly wouldn't be sleeping in a tent in polar bear country!

Oh, and look what I found...
The latest urban legend/email forward is the polar bear attack images of the scarred man and the dead polar bear. I have seen about six different explanations of these, most commonly that it was one camper in the Yukon, but this is the real one.

The polar bear attack took place about 45 minutes outside of Kimmirut, Nunavut (a small community on Baffin Island). It occured on September 3, 2003 when Kootoo Shaw, an Inuit Guide, was leading a group of American caribou hunters.

It is a fairly classic polar bear encounter, occurring early in the morning (4am) with the bear sneaking in just before dawn. Once it had breached the guide's tent, it clawed at his neck and jumped on his chest, three or four times with his front paws. He had several claw wounds, some broken ribs and required 300 stitches to re-attach his scalp.

There are two basic reasons for the severity of this attack: the Inuit guide thought that new gun laws required him to have his firearm unloaded when it was idle and the fact that there were no dogs at the camp to warn the hunters.

Also, from the pictures, it looks like this was a younger polar bear, likely between three and five years of age - big enough to be dangerous but small enough to have a tough time competing for food with larger bears.

There is also another picture associated with these showing someone's foot with a large hole in it. However, this has also been circulated with a story about an accidental shotgun discharge. It does not really fit with the rest of the pictures, not to mention that this foot has pretty fair skin!