Man ‘trying to take selfie' with bear is mauled to death

That was un-BEARable.

Where did this take place OP?

I cannot make out the language they are speaking. Could it be China?

^ Everything ridiculous, bizarre or savage happens in China.

R2 India

Prabhu Bhatara - yeah, that sounds Chinese. Poor guy such a painful way to go, he should have listened.

Classic sketch from Saturday Night Live. "Looks at Books" features interview with author of a book called "Mauled":

Jane Curtin: Well, I can see here, from the book jacket, that you put a lot of the blame on the National Park Service. You feel that they're not doing all they can to protect bear attacks?

Dan Aykroyd as author Bob Crawford: That's right, and I have some proposals. First of all, there should be signs posted prominently on all national park entrances, saying, "Do Not Ride the Bears". Secondly, park rangers should warn campers, if they find bear cubs, leave them alone. Don't try to dress them up in children's clothes or swimsuits, what have you. It makes a great picture, but you're just playing with fire. Third - and I want to emphasize - Never Feed a Marshmallow to a grizzly bear like this: [ places a marshmallow in his mouth and poses wantingly ]

Where is the 'fatal mauling' part?

Please show it or STFU!

lol

If only these poor dolphins, people drag out of the water to take selfies with, had sharp claws and teeth.

George) What was a bear trap doing in the outhouse?

Gracie) Ask the bears, they put it there.

I can barely see what is happening there. Bear with me...let me look again.

Nope. Barely interesting.

R9, don't you worry about the dolphins. They have a plan. They'll be just fine.

Im Pro-Bear.

Natural selection.

We hope the bear was not abused.

Darwin proven right yet again.

All he had to do was yell at it before he was attacked. Or run downhill sideways. They don't like being yelled at and will retreat and they're awkward when running downhill.

The internet is full of pictures of bears. Just check google images. Why feel the need to get your own, personal pic to add to the scrapbook?

These are the same people who go out to concerts and watch the whole damn thing through their smartphones. Idiots. We're better off without them breeding.

Womp womp

My gift to DLers - the article holds more interest than the grim rubbernecking possibilities of seeing this man mauled to death. Apparently stupid Indians account for 60% of all "selfie deaths" - so furthermore, apparently there are so many "selfie deaths" that we have a compound noun and statistics.

A man was mauled to death by a bear after he reportedly tried to take a selfie with the creature.

After stopping to go to the toilet on his way home from a wedding, Prabhu Bhatara is said to have spotted the injured animal in the Nabarangpur district of Odisha in India.

His fellow SUV passengers advised him against trying to take a picture with the creature.

As he sidled up, the bear struck and a struggled ensued. A stray dog also stepped in and bit the bear but its intervention failed to deter the larger animal.

Forest ranger Dhanurjaya Mohapatra said Mr Bhatara “died on the spot.”

He added: “The bear is being treated for its injuries.”

India had the highest rate of deaths linked to selfies for the two years between March 2014 and September 2016, with 60 per cent of all deaths taking place there, a study claimed last year.

Of 127 reported selfie deaths in that period, 76 occurred in India, a collaborative study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Indraprastha Institute of Information Delhi found.

One 17-year-old girl died when she was swept over a parapet by a large wave while taking a selfie with friends.

Elsewhere, in 2014 a Mexican man died when the gun he was holding while taking pictures went off, wounding him in the head.

Oscar Otero Aguilar, 21, who had reportedly been drinking with friends before the incident, died on the way to hospital.

Last year an American woman was deemed “lucky to be alive” after she fell some 60ft from a bridge in California while taking a selfie.

The unnamed woman suffered fractured bones and a deep wound to her arm, authorities said, having ignored warnings about out-of-bounds areas.

Selfies with bears became something of a trend in 2014 – so much so that the US Forest Service was forced to warn people not to get so close to the animals.

“Visitor centre staff routinely encounter unsafe situations as guests ignore their instructions”, the service said.

There being so many stupid people, it's good that they die off from their stupidity before spreading their dumb heterosexual DNA.

I say it’s about time.

Wow, bears are just like us.

[quote]A stray dog also stepped in and bit the bear...

I love dogs!

Why put yourself in such a dangerous situation when you can make it happen on the computer thanks to photoshop? If we can learn anything from Trump it's that you can cheat and lie and still become POTUS!

[quote]After stopping to go to the toilet on his way home from a wedding, Prabhu Bhatara is said to have spotted the injured animal

Just take that all in --. won't you? Killed by a bear he was trying to photograph as if it were one of his drinking buddies, which he encountered while stopping to shit on his way home from a wedding.

I love you, India.

He is still alive in that video (not that I wanted to see him killed).

What could go wrong??

[quote]Erna

Cunt

Eats old bears’ excrement

"He added: “The bear is being treated for its injuries.”"

Also, that the bear bears no grudge.

[quote]After stopping to go to the toilet on his way home from a wedding...

None of this would have happened if he had just shit in the bushes after the reception.

There's longer video on the Daily Mail naturally) but it still doesn't show the M.O.D.

What I love is that people stood around watching as the bear bit and clawed the man to death. One or two people made completely inept efforts to throw what seemed to be pebbles as the bear. Couldn't someone pick up a branch or something and beat on the motherfucker?

"Wow, bears are just like us."

That's a big cross to bear!

R31

That is standard practice for India

[quote]What I love is that people stood around watching as the bear bit and clawed the man to death.

You're kidding, right? Damn right they're not going to endanger their own lives by getting involved, especially considering the fact it was the guy's own stupidity that got him into that situation.

[quote]Couldn't someone pick up a branch or something and beat on the motherfucker?

Because that worked out so well for Timothy Treadwell and his gf, who tried to fight off a full-grown grizzly with a fucking frying pan. 🙄

Mess with the bear, get the horns

I imagine it went something like this...

Why couldn't it have been this cunt?

OMG that stupid cunt in r38’s video. I wish the bear ate HER and her squeaky idiot voice.

Good.

There's something for DLers of every persuasion in this short video, but our Tasteful Friends will be particularly vexed.

That would be Youtube infamy, R41. That bear did exactly the right thing under the circumstances.

In fact, I believe the bear/kayak video is proof that they understand english and find young fraus highly annoying.

What starts as a joke quickly becomes life.

Speaking of bear maulings, I got to watch Grizzly Man again

Lol, I love you guys!

I nominate this guy for a Darwin Award.

[quote] None of this would have happened if he had just shit in the bushes after the reception.

Does a bear...?

[quote] Im Pro-Bear

I am too, but not the human kind.

Remember that crazy man Timothy Treadwell? He would camp out in a wildlife preserve in Alaska in order to "protect" them against non-existent poachers. He would get up close to them talk baby talk to them. The bears ignored the crazy man in their midst, but Treadwell was very lucky for a long time. At any time the bears could have torn him apart and eventually a couple of them did, along with his hapless girlfriend. He was an absolute lunatic but a lot of people took him seriously as a kind of "bear whisperer" who had some kind of special connection with the animals. But he was just some dope with a fixation on bears. It got him a lot of attention, which I think was his main motivation in the first place.

Baloo finally got tired of Mowgli's shit.

[quote] The bears ignored the crazy man in their midst, but Treadwell was very lucky for a long time. At any time the bears could have torn him apart and eventually a couple of them did, along with his hapless girlfriend.

Audio survived that attack. Not quite a selfie but almost.

A video camera was recovered at the site which proved to have been operating during the attack, but police said that the six-minute tape was blank; only the sound of their agonized cries as a brown bear mauled the couple to death was recorded. That the tape contained only sound led troopers to believe the attack might have happened while the camera was stuffed in a duffel bag or during the dark of night. In Grizzly Man, filmmaker Herzog claims that the lens cap of the camera was left on, suggesting that Treadwell and Huguenard were in the process of setting up for another video sequence when the attack happened. The camera had been turned on just before the attack, presumably by Huguenard, but the camera recorded only six minutes of audio before running out of tape. This, however, was enough time to record the bear's initial attack on Treadwell and his agonized screams, its retreat when Huguenard attacked it, its return to carry Treadwell off into the forest, and Huguenard's screams of horror as she is left alone.

This link is NOT the death audio, but it shows Treadwell with the bears and how insanely reckless he was.

The audio tape of Treadwell and his girlfriend being eaten by bears has never been released. But there are some hilarious fake YouTube videos purporting to be that tape. Anyone who would believe it's the real tape (and obviously there are some who do) would have to be brain dead.

Don’t care. I’m a bear.

I was molested by a dolphin.

Bob, why "Mauled?"

This is what they found of the dead man the next day, conveniently repackaged in healthy patty form for a traditional village funeral.

Getting mauled by a bear...can you imagine what that must be like? I read a biography of that weirdo Timothy Treadwell called "The Grizzly Maze." Both he and his girlfriend were entirely ripped apart and eaten. Only a few pieces of their remains were recovered. But some victims of bear attacks live to tell the tale. I've read a couple of memoir by bear attack survivors. Both were good reads.

One is "Beyond the Bear" by Dan Bigley. He was a 25 year old strapping 6'4 adventuresome young guy who loved travel and fishing. He and a friend were out on a fishing trip; while on a trail they were set upon by a very mad female bear. I think she was guarding cubs...anyway, the friend got away but Bigley was mauled. The bear clamped it's jaws around the middle of his face (bears like to disable their opponents by breaking their jaws) and chomped and chewed. Bigley was left wit a severely mangled face and total blindness, having both optic nerves severed so neatly it looked like it was done surgically. During his recovery he was visited by a man who'd been blinded many years ago by a bear; the man still traveled, went fishing (he liked fishing, too), ran marathons and lived a very full life. He told Bigley he still had a lot to look forward to. And he did. His recovery was as arduous as you would expect it to be, He still suffers pain and discomfort, still has accidents due to his blindness. still has a scarred, damaged face. But he's also happily married, with two children and went on to get an education and a good job helping disadvantaged children. So his story had what could be called a happy ending.

Patricia Van Tighem wasn't as lucky. Her memoir "The Bear's Embrace" tells her story. She was 24 year old, tall, blonde fit young woman starting her career as a nurse. She and her husband were on a hike when they had the unbelievable bad luck to cross paths with a female grizzly bear guarding both an animal carcass and cubs. They both were severely injured but she got it the worst; the bear chewed on her head, ripping her scalp to shreds and tearing up her face. She eventually lost her left eye and the eyelids above and below it, leaving a hole in the side of her face. She tried getting a prosthesis to help disguise that deformity but it turned out to be a fiasco. She tried to go on with her life, but was beset by chronic pain and infections in her face and crippling depression. She and her husband eventually had four children; one of them had Down Syndrome, which added to their woes. At the end of her memoir it seems she's made peace with herself and her situation. But by the time it was published her marriage was ending, the facial infections were back, she was dependent on painkillers and suffering major depression again. She ended her life at age 47. Her brother said "What we keep reflecting on is not why she died when she did but how she lasted this long. She'd had countless surgeries, chronic pain and major episodes of post-traumatic stress." I felt very badly when I saw her obituary in the newspaper, but her death may have been a mercy. That woman went through absolute hell.

The amazing thing is that a stray dog appears out of nowhere and tries to fight the bear. But the bear just swats him off and continues mauling. Doggos are amazing!!!

I hope they didn't kill the bear.

That psychotic methhead screaming at that poor little bear is just intolerable to sit through. Someday that bear will be bigger than her meaty ass and bite her yapping jaw off. Internet celebrity? She's fucking dreaming. People have forgotten the poor lady who died when the window came off the plane.

Her voice is waking the dead from their graves far and wide.

BEAR!!!BEAR!!!BEEEEAR!! ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!

I'm feeling better now that the Indians are treating that poor injured bear who mauled that ding-a-ling to death.

Will try the Valium detox next week.

[quote]Because that worked out so well for Timothy Treadwell and his gf, who tried to fight off a full-grown grizzly with a fucking frying pan. 🙄

There’s a fucking WORLD of difference between one woman fighting a healthy grizzly (6-800 pounds) and about eight people fighting an *injured* sloth bear (150-220 pounds). Stop making such silly comparisons.