Anyone visit that bus from the movie "Into The Wild"

[starlite9]

Yep, getting someone else killed besides yourself, increases the stupid level ten fold...

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by kanhawk

I suppose this could be made into a poll, but in the opinion of Alaskans, who was dumber, McCandless or the Grizzly Man?

The Grizzly Man won that poll. McCandless was a beginner in relation to playing games with nature.

On a side note, just last week I read about a lady in the lower-48 who was killed by a grizzly and partially consumed. perhaps she should be in the poll?
Autopsy: Woman Attacked, Killed By Bear - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

On a side note, just last week I read about a lady in the lower-48 who was killed by a grizzly and partially consumed. perhaps she should be in the poll?
Autopsy: Woman Attacked, Killed By Bear - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

Why do you say that was a "grizzly"?

It wasn't. (And it would be just exceedingly unusual for a brown bear to eat a human.)

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

The Grizzly Man won that poll. McCandless was a beginner in relation to playing games with nature.

On a side note, just last week I read about a lady in the lower-48 who was killed by a grizzly and partially consumed. perhaps she should be in the poll?
Autopsy: Woman Attacked, Killed By Bear - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

Nah, she went by herself.... unless someone ran off and left her, then he/she/they are even worse for leaving... but that wasn't the case, she was trying to feed the injuried one and the bigger one came back to finish it off and eat it, she just filled the bill nicely.

I would bet they were black bears, but the story didn't really say.

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Nah, she went by herself.... unless someone ran off and left her, then he/she/they are even worse for leaving... but that wasn't the case, she was trying to feed the injuried one and the bigger one came back to finish it off and eat it, she just filled the bill nicely.

I would bet they were black bears, but the story didn't really say.

They were both black bears. Worse, this lady has been feeding bears for years in blatant violation of law that she has been made very much aware of. She had built a wire fence across part of her porch to facilitate giving dog food to bears. Apparently an agressive bear more or less walked right through the fence to get her.

She was just another Timothy Treadwell. A whole lot too stupid and arrogant to continue to stay alive.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Floyd_Davidson

They were both black bears. Worse, this lady has been feeding bears for years in blatant violation of law that she has been made very much aware of. She had built a wire fence across part of her porch to facilitate giving dog food to bears. Apparently an agressive bear more or less walked right through the fence to get her.

She was just another Timothy Treadwell. A whole lot too stupid and arrogant to continue to stay alive.

Weeellllll, she was armed with a broom....

Could have had a misfire.... or would that be a missweep?

[MN2CO]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Nah, she went by herself.... unless someone ran off and left her, then he/she/they are even worse for leaving... but that wasn't the case, she was trying to feed the injuried one and the bigger one came back to finish it off and eat it, she just filled the bill nicely.

I would bet they were black bears, but the story didn't really say.

It was a black bear - no grizzlies in CO.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by MN2CO

It was a black bear - no grizzlies in CO.

Kinda what I figured, in a place with both Black and Grizzle/Brown bears or in our case an occasional Polar bear, they mention the "Type".

Kinda like the headlines "idiot stomped by moose while attempting to pet it", since we only have one type of moose for the most part, they don't say much else.

if I recall, only a few of the Northern states even have Grizzles any more, Yellowstone National Park as well in WY.