Man throws log at bear, kills it

[George P Burdell]

I guess the Marines taught him well. Guys deserves extra points on his man card. :thumbsup:

HELEN, Ga., June 23 (AP) ? When a 300-pound black bear raided a family?s campsite, the father saved his sons from harm by throwing a log at it, killing it with a single blow.

The father, Chris Everhart, and his three sons were camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia on June 16 when the bear took the family?s cooler and was heading back to the woods with it.

When the youngest son, 6-year-old Logan, hurled a shovel at it, the bear dropped the cooler and started toward the boy, Mr. Everhart said. A former Marine, he grabbed the closest thing he could find ? a log from their stash of firewood.

?It happened to hit the bear in the head,? Mr. Everhart said. ?I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear.?

Mr. Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his campsite, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

 

[swtethan]

this was like... 3 days ago

 

[George P Burdell]

oops

 

[swtethan]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=bear

 

[tasmanian]

Mr. Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his campsite, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

How would you secure it? Tie your cooler up 10 feet in the air?

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Mr. Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his campsite, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

How would you secure it? Tie your cooler up 10 feet in the air?

Yes. Well, not the cooler, but it's contents.
Bears don't care for empty coolers.

 

[Toonces]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Mr. Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his campsite, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

How would you secure it? Tie your cooler up 10 feet in the air?

lol, that's exactly how you bear-proof a campsite actually

 

[yllus]

Big deal. I once killed a lion with a Q-tip.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: yllus
Big deal. I once killed a lion with a Q-tip.

true story: Way back in the day, my aunt came back to camp to find a black bear ransacking the camp. She was quite pissed and killed it. With a single shot .22 rifle!
I look at that picture with her, the dead bear and the little stevens rolling block rifle and wonder that I ever got to meet her

 

[Excelsior]

That dad may be cool, but that 6 year old is retarded.

"Gee, let me throw a shovel at the bear which is walking away from us."

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
That dad may be cool, but that 6 year old is retarded.

"Gee, let me throw a shovel at the bear which is walking away from us."

:laugh: I don't think a 6 year old would know enough, but at six year old he has some balls.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Mr. Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his campsite, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

How would you secure it? Tie your cooler up 10 feet in the air?

In a word...yes.

 

[S Freud]

They gave the guy a ticket? Wow.:roll:

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: KK
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Excelsior
That dad may be cool, but that 6 year old is retarded.

"Gee, let me throw a shovel at the bear which is walking away from us."</end quote></div>

:laugh: I don't think a 6 year old would know enough, but at six year old he has some balls.

Sure, a retarded 6 year old wouldn't know enough.

And don't confuse stupidity with bravery.

 

[Freshgeardude]

lets just say the bear got OWNED so badly. i wouldnt pay a fine for that. if a tree flies in a hurricane and destroys ur car they gonna blame the car cause it was in the way of a tree? dont mess with a bear unless u know what ur doing. or a tree infact

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: yllus
Big deal. I once killed a lion with a Q-tip.

Nothing like throwing a rapper to ruin a party.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: yllus
Big deal. I once killed a lion with a Q-tip.

either i am tired or you are a comic genius