Alaska Bear Mauling Recorded on Tape

[ml_man]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20031009/ap_on_re_us/bear_attack_3&printer=1

[ml_man]

Try again?


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20031009/ap_on_re_us/bear_attack_3&printer=1



ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The graphic sounds of a fatal bear attack were recorded, Alaska state troopers discovered Wednesday while reviewing a tape recovered near the bodies of a wildlife author and his girlfriend.


Trooper Chris Hill said Timothy Treadwell may have been wearing a wireless (news - web sites) microphone likely activated when he was attacked by the brown bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The videotape has audio only; the screen remains blank for the three-minute recording.


"They're both screaming. She's telling him to play dead, then it changes to fighting back. He asks her to hit the bear," Hill said. "There's so much noise going on. I don't know what's him and what might be an animal."


The bodies of Treadwell, 46, and Amie Huguenard, 37, both of Malibu, Calif., were found near Kaflia Bay on Monday after an air taxi pilot arrived to pick them up. The pilot contacted the National Park Service and state troopers to report a brown bear was apparently sitting on top of human remains at the campsite.


After rangers arrived one of them shot and killed a large brown bear when the animal charged through the dense brush. Rangers and troopers later killed a smaller bear apparently stalking them.


An autopsy on the human remains confirmed Wednesday the couple were killed by bears.


Troopers recovered video and still photography equipment as well as three hours of video footage from the site, across Shelikof Strait from Kodiak Island.


Much of the footage is close-up shots of bears — for which Treadwell was well-known.


Some scenes show bears no more than a few feet from Treadwell, co-author of "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska." Others show a more timid Huguenard leaning away as bears come close to her on the bank of a river.

[Morning_Wood]

these left coast moron pseudo ecologist types are simply thrill seekers akin to bungie jumpers.

then they wonder why they occasionally become lunch.


there was also a group of base jumpers that were protesting the Park Service rule banning parachuting off of Half Dome @ Yosemite. The strategy was to do a jump to demonstrate that it could be done successfully.

One of the protester fell to her death when her chute didn't open.

Darwin was right all along.

[Mt_Goat]

Here is the original article from the local paper. (http://www.adn.com/front/story/4110831p-4127072c.html)

I think that will put a better light on things than the Yahoo story. But yes, they were morons just asking for trouble.

[stoopid]

I thought bears ate honey and hung around with pigs?

:rolleyes:

[ml_man]

RANGERS RETRIEVE REMAINS

"Katmai park rangers who went Monday to retrieve the remains of Treadwell and Huguenard -- both of whom were largely eaten."


Many reasons to carry a sidearm in the wilderness. Protection from man or beast.

[Morning_Wood]

bears eat people who are dumbshits...

pigs only need to outrun these two, and in this case, probably did.

[Mt_Goat]

Morning_Wood said:
Many reasons to carry a sidearm in the wilderness. Protection from man or beast.
After living there for about 20 years I can tell you that once you have seen a big bear and then look at the buulets that go in even the largest of sidearms, you will crap your pants at the tough of trying to defend yourself with one. It is possible but if you survived after defending yourself with a sidearm, they would need to do an Endoscopy to take off your underwear!