12:13 - Jul. 11, 2003
teddy bear's picnic
argh - don't you just hate it when you've written a really long entry and then, even though you're trying to be really careful, whilst trying to be fancy with links and stuff, you lose the page you were writing in and the whole lot is lost.
So, to recap. I saved the Minstrels till this morning for a tasty schnack.
I have gone photo crazy and been setting up a lomohome page (can't be arsed to do the link now - hmpf).
C sent me an email about a naughty grizzly bear. Here it is (if I can make it work this bastard time)
The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in
Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The monster was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head.
It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, 12'6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).
Think about it. You would be level with the bears belly button when he stood, he would look you in the eye when walking! This bear on its hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look over the roof at eye level.
The bear had killed 2 other people. His last meal was the poor fellow on a nature hike. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber emptied. He shot
6-times and hit the grizzly 4 (they found seven 7mm slugs and four
38-caliber slugs in him) but obviously only wounded him since it was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death by the Forest Service man.
P.S The last picture is the gruesome remains of the nature hiker
Killed by the bear...Its nasty. The squeamish shouldn't look at picture 3.
