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Bear attacks, significantly injures 39-year-old
man hiking in Yellowstone National Park

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 5/28/2021 10:54:13 PM

A bear attacked and injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park Friday morning, marking the first incident of a bear injuring a person inside the park this year, officials said. A bear fatally attacked a man just outside the park in April. The 39-year-old man injured Friday was hiking alone on a trail near Mammoth Hot Springs when he encountered what he believe to be two grizzly bears. One bear attacked and injured the hiker. The Beaver Ponds Trail, where the hiker was injured, was closed until further notice. Park officials reported that staff were searching the area to make

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A more grisly attack was barely avoided.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: smokincol 5/29/2021 12:11:25 AM (No. 799694)
of course!!! it's all the grizzly's fault!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Heraclitus 5/29/2021 12:34:04 AM (No. 799697)
(very funny, OP!) The man was lucky. But in browsing the page, I see that both quadrupedal and bipedal animals have been rather busy. On the left-hand side of the page we find more bear attacks, one left a woman dead --- Another left a man seriously injured, but alive, having managed to somehow walk out of the attack area in Alaska with his rescuers who had taken almost an hour to get to him, such wide expanses of Alaska being uninhabited. He identifies a large brown bear, and while one would prefer a black bear to a brown bear, I believe in Alaska you have grizzlies, then there's the enormous Kodiaks who stand 10 or more feet tall. I think they only hang out on Kodiak Island, and I doubt our undaunted biped would have survived if his quadrupedal assailant had been a Kodiak. At any rate, he recounts his terrifying ordeal with amazing levity. The photo of this cranium gives one pause. Then on the right-hand side of the page are the stories of two particularly brutal hominid bipeds. But at least a jury of fellow bipeds found Molly Tibbett's killer guilty. The Law in THIS jungle got it right, this time, I feel certain. The other case... too revolting to mention, other than to say, he's already in prison in California on a Life Sentence. What does he care? He should have already paid his due and "shuffled off his mortal coil."
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 5/29/2021 6:40:48 AM (No. 799787)
It's still safer than walking through New York City.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hershey 5/29/2021 7:48:59 AM (No. 799819)
Ok, was it 'in the park' or 'outside the park' and what did the man do to irritate the bear? And they will track down the bear and kill it...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: red1066 5/29/2021 9:36:24 AM (No. 799929)
Very dangerous to be hiking in Yellowstone this time of year. Bears are emerging from their winter dens looking for food, and mother bears have their young with them. Bad combination.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bigfatslob 5/29/2021 10:11:53 AM (No. 799965)
I get suspicious when I see a lead in an article like this. I automatically think a person wanders into the domain of wild animals at their own peril. When camping I expect to see wildlife and hope at a great distance. Walk on the bear trails and cross their paths you are on your own. Then there are the stupid tourist who view wild animals like they see on Disney they find out Yogi and BooBoo are dangerous when it's too late.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 5/29/2021 11:41:44 AM (No. 800049)
When we hike in Yellowstone, my wife has the bear spray canister, and I have the .44 Magnum. Fortunately, it is now legal to be armed in Yellowstone, and I have taken advantage of this for a number of years. About 7 years ago we were hiking on a trail in Yellowstone with friends from Ukraine and my wife and I heard "something big" huffing and grunting, breathing pretty loudly up ahead, and sounds of something walking towards us down the trail. We exchanged glances, a quick whispered discussion, stepped off the trail towards a tree, she moved slightly ahead and put her hand on the bear spray, I put my hand on the .44, and we saw a large brown furry something come lumbering up the rise in the trail about 40 yds ahead.....We tensed and stepped farther back as it cleared the rise huffing and grunting.....and saw that it was a huge bison bull, head fur similar in color to a grizz. Great relief that it wasn't a grizz.....followed immediately by wariness, because a bison bull can be dangerous, too. We called out quickly to our friends behind us to get well off the trail, they moved behind a large fallen tree with big branches and we stepped back behind our tree, partially out of sight. The big bull moved along at a steady pace down the trail in the direction opposite our direction, and in about 5 minutes we were able to gather our group together and continue our hike. Ya'll be careful out there. Those are wild animals and you are the intruder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: cold porridge 5/29/2021 12:54:00 PM (No. 800110)
It takes a really stupid person to be hiking alone in Yellowstone Park. There are not only many grizzlies that can attack you, but moose and buffalo that don't like humans, and it being a national park you are not allowed a firearm. Idiot.
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