From the Daily Mail: "Chilling video shows final moments of hiker as bear charges at him before he plunges to his death down a ravine in Greece." Basics of the story is that two hikers happened across the bear, which became aggressive and attacked one hiker (the one that died), who used pepper spray on it. It then turned and charged the second hiker, but his dog interrupted that attack and the second hiker was able to use his spray. It then turned back toward the first hiker and charged again. Apparently the first hiker tried to run away and went over the edge of a ravine and fell to his death.
It could be my imagination, but between the statistics and the anecdotes, I'm starting to think that pistols are more valuable than bear spray....
ReplyDeleteBear spray is only effective in dissuading bears that are curious but not aggressive. For an actual bear attack, you need a firearm.
DeleteDogs are good.
ReplyDeleteOnly if they don't run away. Jim Corbet, who was a famous hunter of man-eating tigers in colonial India, related a story of a dog he had recently procured who ran away the first time it and Corbet were charged by a tiger. The dog was ashamed, apparently, at its behavior because Corbet wrote that it was fearless thereafter.
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