Virginia man dies after bear shot in tree falls on him
Lester C Harvey, 58, rushed to two different hospitals after being struck by fallen animal in unusual accident
Associated Press
Tue 17 Dec 2024 18.54 GMT
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A Virginia man has died after a bear in a tree shot by one of his hunting...
Great article about Wotjek the Bear, who served with the Polish Army in World War 2 .
" A bear, famed for his love of beer, cigarettes and boxing and who was by the side of Allied troops in World War Two, has been made the subject of a play.
Wojtek was adopted by the 2nd Polish Corps in 1943...
This large predatory bear has been killing cows in Hokkaido Prefecture for circa 3 years. Authorities can't intercept it because this bear is unusually adept at avoiding surveillance and other security measures.
FULL STORY...
I once read that bears can run on the flat as fast as horses for a short period of time. Then my head started playing the Grand National with jockeys on bears coming to a stop at the first fence and trying to waddle their huge arses over it.
( Copied / Spun off from the Hartlepool(?) 'Monkey Hanging' thread.)
OK, some silly people somewhere hung a monkey. For a REAL Elizabethan scandal, how about when people of Congleton sold the town's Bible to buy a dancing bear?
On (I think Wednesday 14 Sep?) the UK Radio 4 pre 6 o'clock news gapfill, there was a horrifying story being recounted by a British Arctic meteorologist about his personal experiences of his team's weather station / accomodation being broken into by a hungry polar bear.
It had broken down the...
this from a Czech chum
in the edinburgh zoo there is a statue of WOJTEK.
Wojtek was a bear that fought in the battle of Monte Carlo, in poland, in 1939, in WWII
the bear was shipped to edinburgh zoo after the war. it killed nazis, so honor its soul and take a picture of the statue and...
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