[pct-l] PCT bear attacks...........

[Bill Burge]

This one sounded life threatening:

Kern County, August 1998 –  ... The man sustained extensive damage to both his forearms, as well as deep cuts to his back and more superficial wounds to his legs. ... 

Butt, this one made me snicker:

Mono County, April 1996 – A man received a bite on the buttocks from a young bear. Further details are not known.

Same incident described in a different source:

April 1996: In the town of Mammoth in the eastern Sierra, a bear approached a man working on his pick-up truck at his home, bit him in the butt, then ran off.  


BillB


On May 24, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Eric Lee wrote:

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> Bill wrote:
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>> Oh, I was confused when you said:
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>> "At the time of my research, there had never been *any* documented
>> fatalities or serious injuries from black bears in California, ever."
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>> The "or serious injuries" kinda through me.
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> Ok, now I understand what you were saying.
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> I got the bit about "no serious injuries" from this article: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/bears/17275/2.  That's not a government source but the author seems to be knowledgable.  Wikipedia defines "serious bodily injury" as any injury that substantially risks death of the victim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury).  Looking over the list of incidents on the California Fish and Game web site, none of them are specifically described as resulting in life-threatening injuries, though several of them are definitely injuries that I wouldn't want to deal with myself.
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> Make of that what you will.
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> Eric
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