Grizzly attack - don't try to climb a tree....

[Globalti]

Found this while surfing UK Climbing forum:

Gulp!

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that of the two American bears, one can climb trees and the other can push trees over!!!
Either way, a tree isn't going to help much.
Makes me glad to live in a country where fierce predators start with badgers, then foxes, then hedgehogs.

 

[vernon]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that of the two American bears, one can climb trees and the other can push trees over!!!
Either way, a tree isn't going to help much.
Makes me glad to live in a country where fierce predators start with badgers, then foxes, then hedgehogs.

You forgot the wild boar.

Oh, and don't underestimate the ferocity of badgers.

 

[Globalti]

Some friends of Mrs Gti emigrated to Australia and Mrs Gti was quite envious. For several months we kept receiving pictures of the kids frolicking on the beach, barbecues, all that stuff, then it went quiet. Next thing we heard was that they were back home and had taken jobs in Cumbria, only the wettest county in England! It turned out that someone they knew had been scoffed by a great white shark and they had suddenly realised that Australia is full of animals that can eat humans! I guess all the pictures were their attempt to convince themselves they had made the right move.....

 

[benb]

Found this while surfing UK Climbing forum:


Gulp!

Great presence of mind to take a picture rather than, oh I don't know, climb another couple of branches!!

 

[Yellow Fang]

He should have punched it on the nose. They don't like that.

 

[slugonabike]

Hmm, I not sure that making a bear more angry would be of much help

 

[Canrider]

coughPhotoshopcough.

 

[e-rider]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that of the two American bears, one can climb trees and the other can push trees over!!!
Either way, a tree isn't going to help much.
Makes me glad to live in a country where fierce predators start with badgers, then foxes, then hedgehogs.

That's simply a myth - Grizzly's can climb trees too! If I was that guy I'd of been heading for the highest branches very quickly, even though I probably can't climb trees very well, I think you'd learn very quickly in that situation.

 

[Crankarm]

Hmm, I not sure that making a bear more angry would be of much help

A bear with a sore head ............ is going to want to get even.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

As a child I was taught that Honey or Marmalade Sandwiches work wonders with bears.

 

[TheDoctor]

You forgot the wild boar.

Oh, and don't underestimate the ferocity of badgers.

Indeed - badgers might look a bit Wind in the Willows but I'd not mess with one.
And yes, I did forget wild boars.
Not sure why, I bet they're delicious.

 

[swee'pea99]

Wild boars? Do we have wild boars? I thought they only lived in France, with Asterix & Obelix.

 

[Speicher]

As a child I was taught that Honey or Marmalade Sandwiches work wonders with bears.

I think that assumption only applies to bears who are wearing duffel coats. They are hungry have just travelled from darkest Peru.

 

[Speicher]

I think that assumption only applies to bears who are wearing very small tee-shirts, or duffel coats. They are hungry and may have just travelled from darkest Peru, or been sitting half way up the stairs.

Edit: More detailed information provided by Uncle Mort