When homo sap saps attack

[Fredric L. Rice]

You know, all this talk about bears, credible threats, paranoid fears,
bees (LOL!) and Republicans, in over 20 years of hiking up and down the
San Gabriel Canyons up to Crystal Lake and back down again pushing or
riding a bicycle, and after many years of assisting as a volunteer,
the biggest threat isn't animals -- either human or non-human. The
biggest threat has always been the environment. Not animals.

The majority of medical callouts that I hear over the USFS radio are
related to vehicles, people falling while climbing rocks, dead tree
limbs falling on someone, lightening strike sparking combustables,
hyper or hypothermic medical conditions. It is rare to have a bee
sting with a immune reaction, a snake bite, or a scorpion sting, even
rarer for callouts due to bears going through people's tents or trash
or vehicles.

The threat of bears is virtually non-existant compared to everything
else that can beset a hiker, camper, research scientist, or other
forestry worker. It's just _nuts_ to try to manup and play pretend
that one had to "strap on a gun" to save themselves from bears.

Bears can be dangerous and they can kill, but the worse ever that's
reaonsable to worry about is what we had with the Boy Scouts boiling
hot dogs, and they were held at bay long enough for the Scouts to
pack up and everyone leave safely -- no dead humans, no dead bears.

Throw some pansy with a gun in the mix pretending he's gonna save
us all, and there could have been dead people and/or dead bears.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5W8ALB0SNU
Insane woman verbally assaults 2 little girls

[br...@pobox.com]

More rampant Walter Mittyism from a lardassed parasite who never
ventures beyond his kitchen.

[Jim]

"Fredric L. Rice" <fr...@skeptictank.org> wrote in message
news:StOdnSnjJKllGRfV...@posted.sonicnet...

>
> The threat of bears is virtually non-existant compared to everything
> else that can beset a hiker, camper, research scientist, or other
> forestry worker. It's just _nuts_ to try to manup and play pretend
> that one had to "strap on a gun" to save themselves from bears.
>
> Bears can be dangerous and they can kill, but the worse ever that's
> reaonsable to worry about is what we had with the Boy Scouts boiling
> hot dogs, and they were held at bay long enough for the Scouts to
> pack up and everyone leave safely -- no dead humans, no dead bears.
>
> Throw some pansy with a gun in the mix pretending he's gonna save
> us all, and there could have been dead people and/or dead bears.

I am afraid I disagree, depends on where you hike, in early July a 14 year
old girl was mauled on a trail inside Anchorage city limits, her face was
not recognizable, over two weeks in the hospital, Friday a Juneau man shot
a bear in his house, Thursday a 21 year old girl who worked at Kenai
Princess lodge was attacked less than 25 feet from the lodge, first time a
employee there was attacked since 2005, she is in the hospital still but out
of intensive care thanks to a man that saved her. Most bears are moved in
town however 17 bears have been shot inside Anchorage city this summer.
these are just a few of the bear encounters this summer. Jim in Alaska

[ShadowTek]

I am reminded of the fanaticism detailed in that episode of Penn and
Teller's Bullshit, where they gave their opinion of the PETA organization.