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Originally posted by Jimbo Jones:
Neither

Cougar attack



Sounds like fun up front but at least the bear or the shark don't take half your shit when they leave!

Serious answer I'll take the bear. Past the drowning, while bears are faster and stronger than us, we suck less on land than in the water.
 
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This lady opted for the bear attack. Roll Eyes

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost...t=link&ICID=ref_fark

Yellowstone Rangers Investigating Ill-Conceived Grizzly Bear Photoshoot
Hilary Hanson
Hilary Hanson·Assignment editor, HuffPost
Sat, May 29, 2021, 11:28 AM·1 min read

Rangers at Yellowstone National Park are investigating an incident that could have easily turned grisly.

Viral video from May 10 shows an unidentified woman approaching a mother grizzly bear and her two cubs at the park’s Roaring Mountain. The video ― posted by witness Darcie Addington, who did not know the woman ― shows the woman holding up her phone, apparently taking photos of the bears.

The mother bear runs towards her, and the woman turns and quickly walks away. Voices in the background can be heard saying “holy fuck” and “oh my god.”

Other people around had warned the woman that she was too close to the bears, Addington told USA Today.

“It was terrifying,” she said.

Yellowstone is trying to identify the woman, the park said in an Instagram post in which it asked anyone with relevant information to contact the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch.

In an unrelated incident, a man hiking solo in Yellowstone was hospitalized after a bear mauled him on Friday.

For the safety of both humans and bears, NPS asks park visitors to stay at least 100 yards from bears at all times, never feed them, and never approach them to take a photo.

Visitors inappropriately approaching wildlife for photo ops is a perennial issue. In 2015, multiple people were injured by bison at Yellowstone, including at least three who were gored or lifted into the air after getting close to the animals to take pictures. Last year, a woman at South Dakota’s Custer State Park sat in the middle of a bison herd to snap photos, which caused a female bison to charge her and rip her pants off.


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Bears attack when you piss them off and they kill you.

Sharks attack when they think you're food, then typically when they find out you're not, they stop. They don't get pissed off and keep trying to kill you.

Shark.
 
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I choose bear. I'm never unarmed in bear territory, either with a .44 mag, a 30 cal centerfire, or a 12 gauge with slugs. And if I'm even in grizzly country, there's bear spray, which is quite effective. In the open ocean, I'm utterly defenseless. Don't want to be the guy testing shark repellent.

The most dangerous, however, is the cougar. She'll take your money, drive away your friends, destroy your self-respect and any sensibilities you may have had and leave you in poverty, begging for more. A slow, painful, pathetic death, indeed.

Tony.


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