[QUOTE]When Robert Biggs finished gazing at a cute, cuddly family of black bears and turned to continue on his day-hike in northern California on Monday, he thought he was safe.
The 69-year-old man from the town of Paradise was anything but.
He'd been watching a mother bear, her yearling and a newborn from about 40 feet away, but he had no idea that he was being stalked by a ferocious mountain lion. As he turned to leave, the cat pounced on his backpack with all four paws.
"He grabbed me from behind and knocked me to the ground," Biggs told The Huffington Post. "I was on my knees. I had my rock pick out because i was on a steep incline, and I smashed the cat in the head with it. He screamed, but he didn't let go."
His backpack and rock pick were the only things standing between him and certain death, Biggs said. He raised his weapon again for another swing at the hulking feline.
"That's when a blur on my left side grabbed the lion by its throat -- turns out it was the momma bear," he said. "I heard a tremendous screeching, some growling noises."
Biggs said that the bear ripped the cat's grip from his backpack, and the two titans clashed for another 15 seconds. The bear won the battle, probably because it "outweighed the cat 400 pounds to 100 pounds." The cat ran away, and the bear went back down on all fours, humbly making eye contact with Biggs before regrouping with her young.
Biggs -- who had been hiking the same two-mile trail in the Bean Soup Flat area for years -- left with a few scratches and bruises on his arm. Being a mountain man, he refused his wife's pleas that he go to the hospital, and instead put some peroxide on his wounds.
He told The Huffington Post that he owes everything to that bear.
"I'm 100-percent sure it did want to save my life," he said. "We made eye contact. I'd seen the bears before and I know she knew who I was."
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[URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/bear-saves-man-from-mountain-lion_n_1388219.html[/URL]
This guy is a bad-ass and the bear is a bro.
I bet you she couldn't [i]bear[/i] to see the sight of that man being murdered by a lion!
edit: lol, the man a few posts below me uses a similar pun as me and he's a comedic genius and but I'm a fucking idiot
Fucking awesome.
I read it in a Scottish accent and now it's cooler.
I can bearly believe this story.
i love bears
Insanely lucky fucker.
Then he dies of rabies after not going to the doctor.
Super badass, but he should see doctor just in case.
Maybe Stephen Colbert was wrong.
Maybe bears [i]can[/i] be our friends.
Wow this happened in my province of Canada, never expected that! :v:.
The picture kind of looks like he has two left hands.
He'd be [I]lion[/I] if he said he wasn't lucky.
[QUOTE=MR-X;35363594]This guy is a bad-ass and the bear is a bro.[/QUOTE]
Or as bro as a [I]momma[/I] bear can be.
That attack must have been too much for the man to bear.
I'd probably just lion the ground due to fear if something like this happened.
I thought mountain lions don't usually attack humans.
So it's unusual that it attacked, very lucky for him that it jumped on the bag, and a very rare behaviour by the bear.
Incredible.
this section has ruined puns for me. stop trying to farm ratings with the shittiest puns you can come up with, they're terrible.
[QUOTE=Keyblockor;35363904]Wow this happened in my province of Canada, never expected that! :v:.[/QUOTE]
When did we sell California to the Canadians?
I didn't know John McCain was a mountain man, he was probably with Sarah Palin on one of her creepy hunting (publicity) trips.
no but seriously this is one of the first stories I've heard where it wasn't the bear that mauled the person to death
How unbearable
[sp]sorry[/sp]
holy fuck.
[QUOTE=sami-pso;35364059]I thought mountain lions don't usually attack humans.
So it's unusual that it attacked, very lucky for him that it jumped on the bag, and a very rare behaviour by the bear.
Incredible.[/QUOTE]
Not surprised that it happened, honestly. Mother bears are protective as fuck, I'm not surprised it decided to jump on the mountain lion that was growling and causing a shitstorm so close to her cubs
Imagined fuzzy brown bear just standing on fours and its head turning to him. Then kindly turns and walks back into the bushes.
:3
Black Bears are a lot more chill than a grizzly bear. If it had been a Grizzly it would have fucking chased him and killed him if he was that close to a mother and her cubs. Still, black bears can be aggressive sometimes, he was lucky that the black bear was different than most.
This is fucking amazing, I love stuff like this, even if it isn't true, I'd like to think it is.
I want to meet the bear
I was expecting something along these lines:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO2oCDSH-SU[/media]
[QUOTE=Parakon;35364060]this section has ruined puns for me. stop trying to farm ratings with the shittiest puns you can come up with, they're terrible.[/QUOTE]
I can't bear all these terrible puns
No jund
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