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My recollection is that Theodore Roosevelt was not too happy with the American Bald Eagle being chosen over the Grizzly Bear as a national symbol.
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Why is it mandatory to have a warning-message printed on a parachute-gear that failure or wrong handling might result in a fatal outcome …??
Or the warning-message on strollers to not fold it while seating a toddler …??
I bet that took quite a while, bears don’t rush, normally there’s a pause.
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Bears not too great outside of vehicles either:
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And the car was totally bruined!
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There are stories from the 70s of the Yosemite park bears learning to break into VW Bugs by jumping on the roof until the frame bent and doors popped.
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But if, despite your own sound advice, you do end up in a fistfight with a bear, shove your fist down that bear’s throat.
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Thank you. This is now my calling. Do you have a moment to talk about Bear Jesus?
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I’m not interested, but I have some friends who might be.
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Don’t I need insurance to protect me from unexpected circumstances? Like if some animal ruins my car. Should they have drove the car off a cliff before filing a police report?
Police officers are probably definitely not qualified to offer a coverage opinion. (Hell, they’re not even required to know criminal law.)
Here’s another case where bear destruction was covered, though I suppose you’d still be out a deductible.
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Apparently it’s a town Ordinance in Churchill, Manitoba for that very reason. The town is on a Polar Bear Migration Route and its Polar Bears are a popular tourist feature.
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That is about how my car looked last time I dropped my cell phone between the seat and the center counsel. Unbearably complicated to get something from that crevasse!
Friends of ours - who now live in Orkney - for years instituted a Bear Feast in Dorset. My wife and i were handfasted at one. We are members of a UK Bear Tribe, with members throughout the UK. No Bears were harmed in the feast, and vegetarian stew was provided. There was a Bear hunt, the word “bear” being taboo, (for a guy in a Honey-Paw suit), Funeral Games, a “sermon” - remembering and honouring all the creatures that died to feed you, in the past year - songs and stories in honour of the Guest, the Forest Apple, Great Otzo, and at the climax of the feast, the Guest (or at least, his claws and skin) rise up to heaven in a wicker basket. His arrival in the heavens is marked by mysterious lights in the sky - remarkably similar to fireworks. We still have mini-bear feasts in midwinter, but nothing that’s a patch on the original ones.
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“Medvedev,” the name of the Russian prime minister, means “honey-eater,” and is one of many such kennings used to avoid that taboo. If you actually say his name, it might summon him, and nobody wants that.
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I shouldn’t be, but right now I’m identifying more as a bear than car owner, so I’m with you… How did the bear fare?
That had to completely suck for the animal. Unlike humans, I don’t think bears trash things for the fun of it, it was just trying to escape.
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