renown nature photgrapher eaten alive

[cleofus1]

I told you bears eat people
http://www.adn.com/front/v-printer/story/4110831p-4127072c.html

[burrowowl]

1. Very rarely

I guess the fellow got a bit overconfident.
Too bad, he did do some nice work.

[MGKrebs]

2. Bad link, try this one:

http://www.adn.com/front/v-printer/story/4110831p-4127072c.html

[Patty]

3. renown nature photgrapher eaten alive

I feel so bad for these guys! Can you just imagine their last thoughts?
OOPS!

[newyawker99]

16. Hi Patty!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BurtWorm]

4. Bad career move.

What is up with wild animals these days?

[toopers]

5. It's horrible . . .

They are acting like, er, wild animals. They deserved to be locked up in a zoo.

[CO Liberal]

6. Upcoming FOX Special - "When Wild Animals Attack"

Watch for it.

[Lorien]

10. Nothing that wasn't up

for the past many millenia. People have got to get over this egotistical "Lord over nature" mindset, and start respecting the natural world-otherwise, it's just Darwinism at work.

The sick thing is, a few incidents like this and the Tiger attack on Roy turn the average city dweller into a "let's dominate the earth by killing it, because it's dangerous" freeper. Human stupidity ends up as bad PR for wildlife.

[slappypan]

7. what the hell?

"Treadwell's films of close-up encounters with giant bears brought him a bounty of national media attention. The fearless former drug addict from Malibu, Calif. -- who routinely eased up close to bears to chant "I love you'' in a high-pitched, sing-song voice -- was the subject of a show on the Discovery Channel and a report on "Dateline NBC." ...

A self-proclaimed eco-warrior, he attracted something of a cult following too. Chuck Bartlebaugh of "Be Bear Aware,'' a national bear awareness campaign, called Treadwell one of the leaders of a group of people engaged in "a trend to promote getting close to bears to show they were not dangerous."

What the hell is wrong with these people! Wild animals ARE DANGEROUS for fuck's sake! Walking up to them and taunting them is not doing these animals any favors! I have had it with asshats keeping 400 lb. tigers in their apartments, taunting grizzly bears and otherwise harassing animals as a way of acting out their strange neuroses.

"Support your right to arm bears."

[damnraddem]

8. OK, this is it: the terrorist crists Dubya needed!

Those are obviously Al Qaida bears. Now that they're attacking Americans, we'll have to invade Canada. Better call off the 2004 Elections -- don't want the distraction of elections when we may be at war.

[Palacsinta]

9. this "get close to bears" is nuts!!!

I am always on bear alert when I go camping and I take all the necessary precautions, including: "Where a bear is or likely to be,....I am not!!....They are wild animals and you cannot predict when something will spook them. As much as we know about them, we cannot understand how they will perceive a particular event....it's that "X" factor that's a killer.

[Lisa]

12. agreed -- plus, it doesn't do the bear any favors ....

Must confuse the heck out of them -- some people want to be friends with them, other want to shoot them. There was a really sad case up in northern Canada a few years back, where wildlife photographers "habituated" a polar bear by offering food, etc., so they could get some nice close-up pictures. The bear then approached a group of hunters, hoping for handouts -- and was shot.

[kwolf68]

11. I will chime in and say...

I argue Bears are MOOOOOOORE un-predicatable than other predators like big cats.

In all honesty, if not rabid I would be less scared of a cat or wolf than a Bear.

The concept of "running toward" a Cougar or Wolf who is in your area actually WORKS...If you do that with a bear, he may just sit down and put a bib on.

[Fridays Child]

13. A simple misunderstanding. When the bears invited him over for dinner...

...well, you get the rest.

:bounce:

[Skittles]

14. OH THAT IS SO F***ING BAD

OK I LAUGHED OUT LOUD BUT DAMMIT IT'S STILL BAD!

[bearfan454]

19. Still against hunting ?

[ArkDem]

20. One day Kordell may rise up against the media

in this same manner.

[cleofus1]

15. just a warning

I know this only happens rarely, but bears do eat people. Sometimes, they just maul (or disfigure) them. Sometimes they just scare the hell out of you. My point is, bears are mortally dangerous and you should avoid them at all costs.
The two worst parts of this story is the fact that he conned some poor lady into camping in a Bear Buffet, and that the forest rangers and pilot's lives were endangered.
And secondly that there goes at least two liberal votes down the drain.

[northzax]

18. you forgot a victim...

the two bears shot by the rangers. never would have happened if this guy wasn't such a bonehead.

[northzax]

17. and even more gruesome

apparnetly he was wearing a wireless mike during the entire encouter. it's on audio tape.

as for the comments about being al quaeda bears, course not, this is liable to make rethugs like bears, after all, they eat liberals...