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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I could fight a brown bear. I wouldn't win and would probably die in seconds, but I could still fight it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There is always a chance it gets bored after it mauls me and leaves just enough for EMS to scrape back together. Thats a win, right? I'd like my chances firing .50 caliber rounds from a helicopter. Yeah, I could probably take 30-50 feral black bears if they attacked my family :3

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They are technically correct,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Probably also lose on the technicality of bringing in the CLAUW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtu2Yb0nk4

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

which is the best kind of correct.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ending your sentence on a comma should be a crime. It leaves that unfinished feeling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Funny you should say that -

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Goddamn you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm told that a black bear won't bother to kill you before eating you. They don't give a shit. Once they start eating, they can't be scared off. They'll go for your meatiest bits first. Legs, then abdomen.

I didn't need that picture, and now you have it too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you mean grizzly bear. Black bears are usually more timid, although I still wouldn’t try to mess with one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, black bears. Specifically the more wild ones up north but the raccoon ones will also mess you up pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Racoon ones have an instinct to go for the eyes and the face.

Kinda the same way cats have an instinct to slap everything that moves.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If a kitten can draw blood on me and make me wince in pain. I have no hope of upscaling from there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A 9lb house cat can overpower me, and I'm 6ft, 250lb.

Long story short, the GF's cat gets incredibly sick and has to be fed through a tube. Well one day she gets better and decides that she doesn't want to eat through a tube anymore, and that's when I learned just how strong they are. Literally had to use my all of my strength to keep her from squirming, and she was still managing to break free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, do keep in mind you're being careful to not hurt the cat. Things likely would have been different if you just cared about winning a fight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

There's probably a psychological aspect to it, I have a cat and need to give him oral meds that he hates. I have to grab him and force the dropper in his mouth, and only after months of half the meds dribbling out and the vet chiding me, did I start grabbing his head firmly and shoving the dropper in his maw.

Before that I was too soft and "aw poor little cat".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I could not keep a kitten from biting down on me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The meme was always “100 men vs 1 grizzly”. And yes we could, as long as I was in the back and could climb over the blood soaked bodies of those in front to confront an exhausted grizzly pinned under the weight of mutilated corpses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then you notice the white powder covering the bear's face and realize you've made a grave mistake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What’s so funny

“Apex predator, high on cocaine, and you’re going toward it.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I could understand maybe a black bear if the person in question was huge, but you cant win against a grizzly in any world without a weapon.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it's a black bear, I can just make myself look bigger and scare it away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They're probably not in trouble unless they run into an actual bear. There are certainly many other delusions that are much more dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If it really happened, instinct would kick in and they'd hide in a car or something.

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