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This Just In! Ex-Marine Kills Bear with Bare Hands!

#8
He used a log... this guy used a 3.5" pocketknife.

And the dumb bear attacked him in the guy's backyard! He should have known better!

Man armed with knife kills starving bear

Associated Press — Nov. 18, 2003

WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia — John Hirsch went toe-to-claw with a black
bear — and won.

Hirsch had only a 3 1/2-inch knife blade when he came across the bear in his
backyard in Williams Lake, about 190 miles northeast of Vancouver.

"He came out of nowhere," said Hirsch, 61, an avid hunter and outdoorsman.

"I can remember thinking that he's not stopping — he's coming," said Hirsch.
"I just didn't feel I had any place to go."

He was attacked Oct. 29 while checking on the 15 turkeys he and his wife,
Sharon, raise on their spread.

As the bear began to circle him, Hirsch faced it like a wrestler in a ring.

"It was like a knife fight that you'd see in an old-time Western," he said.
The bear swatted out at him, but each time it lunged, he managed to stab it.

"I couldn't tell you if the fight lasted three seconds or three minutes,"
Hirsch said.

Three stabs to the bear's chest and one to its neck finally did the bruin
in.

It stood about 5 foot 7 inches to Hirsch's 5 feet 9 inches and weighed 200
pounds, according to conservation officers who inspected it.

"I can say it sure looked smaller the next morning than it did during the
fight," said Hirsch.

The bear was in poor shape, suffering from a severed tongue and broken jaw,
the conservation officer said. Its stomach was empty and the bear had little
fat on it.

Hirsch, a retired electrical foreman at B.C. Hydro, suffered a scratch to
the top of his head and scratches to his back — and a shredded T-shirt.

As for the battle itself, Hirsch said it never occurred to him that he would
lose to the bear.

"I just felt that however long this took, I was going to come out OK," he
said. "I always felt that I was at least his equal."
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#11
Poop-Loops said:
Since when do bare hands = logs?
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maybe when you look like this:
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#12
Why are people bagging on a guy for defending his kid, bear, human, lion, tiger, you go after my kid and you are dead unless you kill me first.

The argument that this is the bears territory is crap. Should bears be allowed to kill anyone who lives in the mountains? If I walk onto my nieghbors lawn and his dog kills me is it OK since it was his territory? If the bear attacked another wild animal and the other animal killed it there would be no issue, if humans are animals, what's the diff?
 
#17
jady said:
Why are people bagging on a guy for defending his kid, bear, human, lion, tiger, you go after my kid and you are dead unless you kill me first.

The argument that this is the bears territory is crap. Should bears be allowed to kill anyone who lives in the mountains? If I walk onto my nieghbors lawn and his dog kills me is it OK since it was his territory? If the bear attacked another wild animal and the other animal killed it there would be no issue, if humans are animals, what's the diff?
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Especially when the guy is clearly sympathetic and didn't want to actually KILL the bear.
 

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