Man Picks Fight With Bear...and Wins! - Political Fever

RSDavis · #1 (**permalink**) 10-14-2008, 11:23 AM

Man Picks Fight With Bear...and Wins!
by RS Davis
The Freedom Files

Hello Freedomphiles! Jim West, a forty-five year old Canadian man, was out walking his two dogs, when he heard an angry grunt from behind him. He turned, and looked into the face of an enraged mother bear: "All I saw was eyes full of hatred … I had no option … So I stuck my foot up and tried to kick her in the face."

The bear attacked, and like most of these stories, it was a one-sided mauling. "I rolled onto my stomach and clasped my hands at the back of my neck." he explained. "She tore into my skull at the back of my head, moved over and bit me on the left side of my body, on my ribs and left arm."

At this point, I'd be thinking, "This is it. This is how I am going to die - mauled by a damned bear," but Mr West wasn't having any of it. Like Han Solo, he said, "Never tell me the odds!" He picked up a big stick, held it like a Samurai, and went Kurosawa on the bear.

"I swung the stick and broke it over her head. She kind of stood there and shook it off, like she was stunned," he said.

"I realized if I didn't continue the attack she would knock me to the ground again and I would not get up.

"I swung my piece of wood like a sledgehammer driving spikes and I kept swinging till she was lying flat on the ground and there was blood coming out of her nose," said West.
The bear was dead. And West hobbled a kilometer back to the lodge, from where he was taken to the hospital with half a skull and a great story.

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