Yowza!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/28/ma ... latestnews

Geez, when I was a young punk roaming around Red River Gorge, we worried more about drunk hillbillies, stray bullets or stumbling onto someone's cash crop. Fending off an enraged bear with a 3-inch pocket nife? Not so much!

"I was chomped on by a bear, and he was a bad bear, but that doesn't speak of all bears."

First recorded bear attack in the Gorge area, isn't it?

Peladoboton, I wanna read that!!

Sucks that they closed a whole bunch of the red down. Pisses me off that people are like why do I care, because I'm a boulderer. I only have a ton of friends who go there and it's a major climbing spot.

Don't know much about bears but 150 lbs. seems pretty small to me.

the scary thing about blackies is, when they attack it usually means they want to eat you. Since they are scavengers, they will go for the easiest meal garbage, carcasses, slow moving animals, veggies........

Noondueler wrote:Don't know much about bears but 150 lbs. seems pretty small to me.

I was looking at the photos that the guy took of the bear shortly before it attacked him and it certainly looks larger than 150 pounds.

And from what I understand, if a black bear acts like that...stalks and attacks...then it's definitely out to kill and eat you. None of this attack and escape shit. Sometimes they just want to score a big stack of protein and calories, and a human body fits that description. Plus we're easy to kill.