Aussie Speaks Out About Bear Attack
October 10, 2008
Remember last week I reported about a tourist to Canada from Australia who was bitten by an angry bear as people gathered around to take pictures, etc.?
It appears that the poor Australian, Will Pelling, isn’t being treated very well by the Canadians and bloggers as well. He says he needs to speak up and set the record straight on what happened that resulted the shooting death of the bear.
Pelling says he was coming out of a local pub, the Maxx Fish nightclub, when he noticed a group of people, described as “drunken revelers” nearby.
“I was on my way back to the hotel on my own and the group was about 15m away when out of the blue I saw the bear coming towards me. I froze to the spot,” he said. “Everybody was asking me why didn’t I run. I didn’t even think to run. I was shitting myself.” The bear, a fully-grown male, bit him on his leg as it passed but luckily kept on going.
“It hurt, I can tell you that. It was like a horse bite,” Mr Pelling, who grew up on his parents’ farm in central Queensland, said.
Pelling said that if he had known authorities were going to shoot the bear, he wouldn’t have reported it.
Tom Remington
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Media gossip for ya….tear down the towns and city’s the bears and wolves got a right to be there dammit, geeeez, if I am dumpster diving next month because Wall Street took all my doe and I bite some drunk leaving the Pub, I would probably get shot too. Move over huggers, your town/city is not safe any more, the predators which do not get managed properly by hunts and fair chase eat all their food in the wild right up and then the poor buggers gotta dumpster dive to survive, here comes the bears, the wolves, It just seems like sound judgement to take away all those cops guns and give them to us hunters, then we can get back to proper predator management. Besides, while running by the seasoned up human the bear got him a chomp on, no doubt that bear licked his lips and thought to his self, hmmmm….that was pretty sweet an tasty, a lot sweeter than that dumpster hmmmmm….next time I want some more of that stuff, and it don’t even run or fight back like its cousins in the wild do…..LOL, yep fellers there I was getting my leg ripped off by that homeless bear and those blue meanies shot the poor thing…..I’m starting to agree with the population control measures of the government think tankers…get the city people hugger types pronto…….before they breeed again.