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Survivor Recounts Grisly Details of Near-Fatal Bear Attack
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- Bandages aside, John Chelminiak doesn't seem like a man who was nearly killed last month in a bear attack. The 57-year-old Bellevue City Council member from Washington state was the victim of a black bear mauling Sept. 17 that took his left eye and almost his life, but he was unfazed today as he recounted the terrifying encounter and announced his release from the hospital. "I actually feel very good, very strong, continue to get better every day," he told NBC's "Today" show. "Yesterday I got the good news from the doctors that I'll be able to go home later today, so I'm very ...
Montana Woman Staves Off Bear Attack With Zucchini
By not in system - AOL NewsHELENA, Mont. (Sept. 23) -- A Montana woman fended off a bear trying to muscle its way into her home Thursday by pelting the animal with a large piece of zucchini from her garden. The woman suffered minor scratches and one of her dogs was wounded after tussling with the 200-pound bear. The attack happened just after midnight when the woman let her three dogs into the backyard for their nighttime ritual before she headed to bed, Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli said. Authorities believe the black bear was just 25 yards away, eating apples from a tree. Two of the dogs sensed the ...
Bear Who Mauled Caretaker Is Put to Death in Ohio
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio (Aug. 22) - A bear that mauled to death a caretaker was euthanized Saturday at the request of the family of the victim, whose father said he had told his son to leave the job. The bear attacked Brent Kandra, 24, when he opened its cage Thursday for a routine feeding at the home of a man who kept a menagerie of wolves, tigers and bears on the property southwest of Cleveland. The owner, Sam Mazzola, who has drawn criticism from animal rights activists for letting people wrestle with one of his bears, had said Kandra's family would decide the bear's fate. Kandra Family/AP Brent ...
Another Wedding. And a Funeral...That Never Happened
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAll day Friday, I was dragging around the house, and I put this in my Facebook status line: "Starting from zero, got nothin' to lose." That's from the 1988 hit song "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman. The first time I listened to this tale of poverty and longing, I cried. If ever there was an anthem for my sad, white-trash childhood, this was it. It would not be appropriate to use a public forum to detail my late father's crimes against humanity, so here's the Cliff Notes version: Today he probably would have gone to jail, but times being what they were, instead he got electroshock ...
Bear in Fatal Attack Is Killed; Cubs May Go to Zoo
By Mara Gay - AOL News(July 30) -- A mama grizzly bear was euthanized today after tests determined she was responsible for a fatal attack at a Montana campsite, but her cubs may be sent to live in a zoo, an official said today. A third cub was caught in a culvert trap early this morning, and likely participated in the deadly mauling of 48-year-old Kevin Kammer from Grand Rapids, Mich., according to The Associated Press. The capture came a day after its 400-pound mother and her two other cubs were picked up by park officials. Wednesday night, the mother tore through the Soda Butte Campgrounds near Yellowstone ...
Bear Invades House, Steals Teddy Bear
By Kathryn Yao - AOL News(July 29) -- Separated at birth? On Tuesday, a black bear entered a house in Laconia, N.H., munched on some pears and grapes left on a kitchen counter, and drank some water (plus a few fish) from a fishbowl before picking up a stuffed teddy bear. As WMUR News reported, the bear, who had come in through a sliding glass door that had been left open, was apparently scared off when the family returned home. Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson discovered the discarded teddy bear on the lawn, along with a box of Goldfish crackers. "I thought maybe ... [the teddy bear] looked like a little baby cub ...
Grizzly Suspected in Attack Caught; Survivor Played Dead
By Mara Gay - AOL News(July 29) -- Deb Freele was asleep in her tent when she awoke to a bear chomping on her arm. "To wake up to something crunching on your arm ... I can't describe the feeling," Freele told ABC's "Good Morning America" today. Hours after Freele recounted her terrifying encounter at a Montana campground near Yellowstone National Park, authorities announced the capture of the 300-plus-pound grizzly suspected in the unprovoked rampage that left one person dead and another injured. The female grizzly was captured in a trap set in a culvert Wednesday evening, and two of her cubs were caught in a ...
Yellowstone Bear Attack: What Are the Odds?
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 28) -- Early this morning, one person was killed and two others were injured in a bear attack at a campground in Montana's Gallatin National Forest, just outside Yellowstone National Park. The Soda Butte campground, which has been temporarily closed since the incident, was also the site of a deadly bear attack in 2007. The two incidents had Surge Desk wondering about the likelihood of such an attack at Yellowstone itself. From 1980 to 2002, more than 62 million people visited Yellowstone, spending roughly 17 million camping hours in the park, according to Kerry A. Gunther of the ...
1 Dead, 2 Hurt in Bear Attack at Mont. Campground
By not in system - AOL NewsCOOKE CITY, Mont. (July 28) -- - At least one bear rampaged through a heavily occupied campground Wednesday near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night, killing one person and injuring two others during a terrifying attack that forced people to hide in their cars as an animal tore through tents. Authorities said three separate attacks left a male dead and a woman and another male injured at the Soda Butte campground. The woman suffered severe lacerations and crushed bones from bites on her arms, and the surviving male was bitten on his calf. Wildlife officials did not release ...
Alaska Geologist Survives Two Attacks by Grizzly
By not in system - AOL NewsANCHORAGE, Alaska (June 24) - The bearded, sandy-haired geologist was on a job in the remote Alaska wilderness when a grizzly bear suddenly emerged from the brush just yards away. So Robert Miller did what he was trained to do - he fell to the ground, clasped his hands around his neck to protect it and played dead. The bear wandered away and Miller thought he was in the clear. Pulling himself to his knees, he found out how wrong he was. Mark Thiessen, AP Alaska geologist Robert Miller, 54, recovers in a hospital after surviving two attacks by a grizzly bear. The bear charged again and ...
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