"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
10/23/2018 at 23:01 • Filed to: It's good to be really good at something.
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"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
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I am so happy my home state is finally “the best” at something. Now seriously I actually live about 25 miles from Glacier National park where most of these attacks have taken place and the Flathead National Forest is literally at my back door. In town I have only seen one grizzly bear, while I typically see a black bear about once every few weeks durning the non- hi bernation months.
We currently have three large cans of bear spray at the door ready to go with us on our outdoor adventures.
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WRXforScience
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:24 |
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That’s 46 deaths in 118 years, not bad (that’s how many Americans are killed each year by lightning). Vending machines have killed more than twice as many people since 1976! In 2017, 450 Americans died falling out of bed, so beds are about 1000 times as deadly as bears.
I’m actually pretty disappointed in bears, they really need to step up their game.
lone_liberal
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:28 |
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I wonder how many people moose, or even deer, have taken out if you included car wrecks?
Alfalfa
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:28 |
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Reminds of a book I read called Mark of the Grizzly. My uncle had a copy that pretty much all my siblings and I read when we visited him in Montana, and then we all went to Glacier National Park.
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> WRXforScience
10/23/2018 at 23:29 |
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we are around 1 a year for the last few years. They are really showing up now and doing their job. What would be a real boon to this chart is if Grizzly bears were re-introduced to california. My god it would be a blood bath.
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:29 |
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Does anything else happen in Montana?
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> lone_liberal
10/23/2018 at 23:30 |
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I bet it’s >1 a year at least in MT. Who knows for real tho.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:30 |
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I remember when we were in glacier the campsite next to ours was closed for bear activity. They kept shooting at it with rubber bullets to deter it, but eventually they had to tranq and relocate it. Frankly at the time I was more worried about the thunderstorm as I had just previously had a run in with the stuff that involved SAR.
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> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/23/2018 at 23:31 |
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No not really.
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> Alfalfa
10/23/2018 at 23:32 |
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Spend at least a day or two in Glacier and you will see a Grizzly, they are such awesome animals and scare the literal shit out of you.
Tristan
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:36 |
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With all the animal rights activists that live there, how has this not happened yet?
DipodomysDeserti
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:38 |
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TIL that the Grand Canyon eats as many tourists as do bears in Glacier. Step your game up, bears!
Kim Jong - Healthy
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:42 |
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Mandatory PSA:
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> HammerheadFistpunch
10/23/2018 at 23:55 |
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Wow that’s a unique experience.
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> Kim Jong - Healthy
10/23/2018 at 23:57 |
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“ When the bear is finished mauling you contact he US Forest Service”
benjrblant
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/23/2018 at 23:57 |
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Doesnt MT have more guns oer capita than any other state? You could be leading in that. Oraybe guns to bear attack ratios? Or unarmed bear attacks?
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Alfalfa
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 00:01 |
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We saw a couple, none close enough to be scary. A couple we spotted over a mile away through binocs and another ducking into some brush as we drove down a mountain road. My uncle had some closer encounters, though.
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> benjrblant
10/24/2018 at 00:02 |
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Yes, yes, and I’m glad the bears don’t have guns, they are dangerous enough as it is.
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> Alfalfa
10/24/2018 at 00:03 |
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I had one sniff my tent. A little came out.
ranwhenparked
> lone_liberal
10/24/2018 at 00:19 |
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Supposedly, about 200 people a year nationwide die from hitting deer.
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lone_liberal
> ranwhenparked
10/24/2018 at 00:30 |
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So 46 in 118 years vs 200 per year. My god, deer are blood thirsty demons!
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/24/2018 at 00:31 |
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Have you not seen the Kalispell crime reports? So much is happening
facw
> WRXforScience
10/24/2018 at 00:50 |
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There is a bit of this problem:
Part of the reason those deaths are so low is that people know they need to be cautious around bears.
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facw
> benjrblant
10/24/2018 at 01:01 |
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The guns per capita figures are hard to find from reliable sources (because we don’t do a very good job keeping track of deadly weapons) but this article says Wyoming leads: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-heavily-armed-states-in-america/
This paper says Alaska leads the way in gun ownership rate (which is a bit difference since people with many guns don’t drive up the numbers): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809774/
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DipodomysDeserti
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 01:04 |
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From my meanderings around Alaska.
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DipodomysDeserti
> facw
10/24/2018 at 01:10 |
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Ever been to a place with tourists and bears? I’ve seen people approach bears, elk, moose... etc just as they’d aporoach their family dog.
People are fucking stupid.
There’s not as many bear attacks because, unlike lightening, people can kill bears. Fucking people hunted the California Grizzley into extinction. There’s only about 1,500 Grizzlies left in the continental US.
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facw
> DipodomysDeserti
10/24/2018 at 01:18 |
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I’m surprised by the bears. Not at all surprised by people being morons around large herbivores. Just because it doesn’t plan on eating you doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t fuck you up if it feels you are a danger to it, it s offspring, or its territory.
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DipodomysDeserti
> facw
10/24/2018 at 01:24 |
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Most people live such sanitized lives, that they don’t think natural things can kill them. Too much TV and internet.
450X_FTW
> benjrblant
10/24/2018 at 08:42 |
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I’d guess Florida leads all those categories, because Florida
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450X_FTW
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 08:42 |
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Now wait a minute, why are we so quick to call them “bear attacks”? There’s 2 sides to every story, so for all we know they are “bear self defenses”.....
marshknute
> benjrblant
10/24/2018 at 08:59 |
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Do bears have the right to bear arms?
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 09:03 |
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Ban bears
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> marshknute
10/24/2018 at 09:04 |
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Something about the right to keep and arm bears
thejustache
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/24/2018 at 09:52 |
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Years ago I remember visiting Sequoia national park with my family and watching a video on how the rangers deal with bears. They used rubber bullets as you saw, but also repeatedly yelled “GO! BEAR! GO! BEAR! GO! BEAR! GO! ” and for some reason my whole family was doubled over laughing at the idea of talking to a bear like that.
Khalbali
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 10:08 |
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I remember visiting Yellowstone as a young teen and my parents got me a book that had every known death in the park, one section for bears, one for falls, one for hot springs e tc....
Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 11:58 |
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Come on Minnesota!!!
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Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
> DipodomysDeserti
10/24/2018 at 12:01 |
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My sister lives in Alaska, her bear spray consists of a .45 Magnum.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
10/24/2018 at 13:07 |
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Here’s a very good, comprehensive study that was conducted over a two decade period in Alaska showing the efficacy of bear spray on black, brown and polar bears. Send it to your sister.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/bear_cougar/bear/files/JWM_BearSprayAlaska.pdf
I’ve trained quite a bit with handguns, and have the skills to make a good shot on a charging bear, but we’ve killed enough bears. When I go into the wilderness, if I carry a sidearm, it’s for the two legged wildlife I might encounter. Let’s not kill anymore bears if we don’t have to.
Steve in Manhattan
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
10/24/2018 at 23:22 |
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There is a bad joke there, but I will not be the one to make it ... and hey - here in NY we had one!
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> Steve in Manhattan
10/25/2018 at 15:48 |
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The one bear on human killing was actually an Italian
guy from New Jersey misidentified
as a bear.