What Would You Do....

[MadMen]

I was just sat here thinking, imagine if you walked out of your house, down the road, and came face to face with a bear!

Is there anything you should or shouldn't do, when faced with a bear?

[Jonathan-Joe]

This advice might help http://stuorg.iastate.edu/mcc/jokes/bears.html

[MadMen]

Wolf, I'm not sure if bears are like horses but apparently they can't walk DOWN stairs, only up... or is that cows?

Flump, I'm talking big, black, grizzly bear.

[shoota]

My brother in law was the manager of a bear park/wildlife park close to Loch Lomond many years ago and I used to help out in return for petrol money, fishing and shooting many years ago.
We drove round in a swb Land Rover throwing bread and fruit over the side and sometimes they tried to climb in to get at the food whereupon they got a wee tap on the schnozz with a 1" diameter stick.
I was once cleaning out the den in which a black bear had just given birth when she got her claws into my jacket and was pulling me towards the cage bars - I had to abandon the jacket in order to get free....

[MadMen]

Bear program filmed in Manchester?!! Do they have a bear problem there? I thought they only lived in the forest. Saying that, I suppose they have forests in Manchester too!

[Hopkirk]

Just walk back home and fetch your cat

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/images/060613-cat-bear_big.jpg

[MadMen]

Sorry, it was Minnesota, not Manchester.

[MadMen]

Wow shoota! That is pretty cool.

Hopkirk, I don't have a cat. Might be a good reason to get one though!

[shoota]

You wouldn't believe how smelly bear pee is.....

[MadMen]

Jordyboy, there isn't a penguin in there!

[MadMen]

And what did you do???

[Colne-Idler]

love the Marmalade ref
first book i bought with my paper round money was More About Paddington
Adventurer Bro says lie down don't move
even if you get tentatively pawed and your butties get nicked T

[Chipchopper]

I came face to face with a black bear on Chesterman beach BC. He saw me but didn't pay too much attention, he was more interested in eating salal berries, anyhow I kept my distance and slowly backed off and he carried on foraging, it was no big deal

I saw several other bears on the previous day but that was from a boat and for some reason humans in boat, that pay no attention to at all, they don't even look. We got within about 5m, they know when to come down to the fore shore at low tide, they turn over huge boulders with the greatest of ease, searching for crabs and the like.

[MadMen]

Maybe he was vegetarian....?

[grasscarp]

Did you say at school
Algy met a bear
A bear met Algy
The bear had a bulge
The bulge was Algy
?

[grasscarp]

Chipchopper my aunt used to live in Canada and a bear was in the garden. Don't think anything happened.

[MadMen]

Can't say I remember that one.

[Khandro]

shoota; I think you may have enough material for a movie! 'Bear necessities' for the title has been covered, but I'm sure someone on here can suggest something.

[karenmac60]

Shoota - where the bear park was is just up the road from me and mr mac worked there years ago. Do/did you live in the area and when was this?