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Old 08-03-2012, 10:58 AM
 
Location: 112 Ocean Avenue
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Three Soldotna fishermen on the Kenai River had an unexpected heart-pounding adventure last weekend that didn’t involve fish.

Mike Polocz of Soldotna (owner of Alaska’s H2O Pros), his son Dustin, and Charles Mettile came upon a bear cub struggling in the river, exhausted and almost drowned. The mother bear was on land nearby, but the three fishermen decided they couldn’t just watch the little guy drown, so they set to work to try to push the cub out of the eddy in which it was trapped, and safely to the waiting paws of mother bear.

http://www.themudflats.net/?p=32461

That was one scared little bear cub. Happy endings are always a good thing.
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Old 08-03-2012, 11:59 AM
 
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I saw the video on tv, pretty cool.
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Old 08-05-2012, 10:47 AM
 
Location: Indiana (USA)
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My yellow Lab came running in when she heard the little bear.
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Old 08-07-2012, 05:55 AM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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It was that bear's right to drown on the river and live with the consequences of his decisions. Alaska has become such a nanny state that even the fishermen are in on it now!
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Old 08-08-2012, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Eastern NC
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It was that bear's right to drown on the river and live with the consequences of his decisions. Alaska has become such a nanny state that even the fishermen are in on it now!
Wow, such compassion.

Glad they were able to save the little guy.
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Old 08-08-2012, 10:41 AM
 
Location: 112 Ocean Avenue
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It was that bear's right to drown on the river and live with the consequences of his decisions. Alaska has become such a nanny state that even the fishermen are in on it now!
It was painfully obvious to me that bear cub was in the midst of committing suicide. It wasn't crying out for help or for its mom; those were cries of I don't want to grow up in a state that's crawling with less lower 48ers. Don't cry for me Argentinalaska.

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Old 08-08-2012, 11:44 AM
 
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To me the bears cries were kind of eerie. It sounded at the beginning of the video that it was screaming 'bear'.
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Old 08-08-2012, 04:58 PM
 
Location: interior Alaska
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It was painfully obvious to me that bear cub was in the midst of committing suicide. It wasn't crying out for help or for its mom; those were cries of I don't want to grow up in a state that's crawling with less lower 48ers. Don't cry for me Argentinalaska.
Precisely
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Old 08-11-2012, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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It was that bear's right to drown on the river and live with the consequences of his decisions. Alaska has become such a nanny state that even the fishermen are in on it now!
You have been deceived!

In reality the fishermen were not rescuing the bear cub but rather using it as bait in an attempt to catch the rare and elusive bear-eating salmon, Ursoid Salmonidae.
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