Man bit in head by bear wakes up to "crunching sound"
 

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WARD, Colo. (AP) - A teen staffer at a Colorado camp fought off a bear after waking up Sunday to find the animal biting his head and trying to drag him away.

The 19-year-old woke up at around 4 a.m. to a "crunching sound" with his head inside the mouth of the bear, which was trying to pull him out of his sleeping bag as he slept outside at Glacier View Ranch 48 miles (77 kilometers) northwest of Denver, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said. The teen punched and hit it and other staffers who were sleeping nearby yelled and swatted at the bear, which eventually left, she said.

The staffer, identified only as Dylan, was treated briefly at a hospital and released.

The teen told KMGH-TV that the bear dragged him ten to 12 feet before he was able to free himself.

"The crunching noise, I guess, was the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in," said the teen, who teaches wilderness survival at the camp owned by the Rocky Mountain Conference of Seventh Day Adventists.

Dylan and the other staffers were near teepees where 12- and 13-year-old campers were sleeping. None of them were hurt.

Black bears aren't usually aggressive but have attacked several people in the West in recent weeks.

A woman and her dogs were attacked on Tuesday after they apparently surprised an adult bear and her cub in a huckleberry patch in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests.

Last month, black bears killed two people in Alaska in separate attacks.

Sixteen-year-old Patrick "Jack" Cooper of Anchorage was killed after he got lost and veered off a trail during a mountain race south of Anchorage. Mine contract worker Erin Johnson of Anchorage died and her co-worker was injured in a mauling about 275 miles northeast of Anchorage.

Black bears will defend their young and have been known to paw and bite tents with food inside. After the Colorado attack wildlife officers did not find any food that would have attracted the bear so they have set bear traps in the area and plan to continue a search for the bear with scent dogs on Monday.

The bear's behavior was so atypical that any bear found in the traps in the next few days will likely be euthanized and officials will test later to see if it was the same bear involved in the attack using DNA evidence, Churchill said.

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doesnt he look like a guy that's name would be only "Dylan"

he was face down in some pussy and fell asleep :2 cents::2 cents: :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

looks like some drunk russian guy who passed out in the forest.

Damn guess he has a story to tell. It's actually pretty amazing but as many hikes as I've been on out in the mountains and woods I've only seen a bear once.

I've seen lots of tracks but only seen one when I was hiking part of the AT and a black bear ran across the trail right in front of me and hauled ass down a hill.

People that don't carry, or keep nearby, a high-caliber weapon in bear country are fools. This guy was a lucky fool.

Any time someone is telling a story, he can easily say "oh yeah, well a bear tried to eat my head and failed".

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I almost always carry a pistol, but in many places you can't carry even long rifles, like at national parks and many state/national forest. The reason being is because of illegal poachers, not because anti gun stuff.. Also in a case like this he was asleep a gun would of made zero difference.

A few weeks ago there was a case where a kid shot and killed a bear that was about to attack their group. There was 3 or 4 people in that group and they all had rifles.. The bear attack was so fast that none of the adults were able to get their guns off their shoulders to fire fast enough. They said the only reason the kid was able to do it, was because he didn't have a shoulder strap and was carrying his gun in his hands..

Meaning yes guns can save your life but you might not always have the chance to use it.

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Where you cannot carry a side arm or long barrel





There are some non lethal alternatives --outcomes questionable

how are you suppose to do all that shit sleeping?? he was sleep! :1orglaugh

Read this story about an even luckier fool.

Idaho hunter recalls harrowing bear attack | Xtreme Idaho | idahostatejournal.com

Bear meat makes pretty good stew -- mountain lion doesn't taste particularly good.

Some people should stay in closed cabins in the woods :2 cents:

Hunting bear is dangerous -- that's the sport in it ...

i hunted bear with family. the result was a badger chasing us up a tree! :helpme:1orglaugh never got the bear.