Popular  culture tends to portray the bear  as a cute and cuddly being that  spends his carefree days offering  friendly warnings about forest fires  and trying to squirm their cute,  pudgy faces out of narrow honey jars.  But as we all know bears could  rip your face off with one swipe of its  claws to use it as the meat in  an open-faced honey and face  sandwich.
   10.  Man vs. Bear vs. Sandwich

Bear  attacks that are caused by careless humans leaving food out in the   wilderness aren’t uncommon. It’s very rare, however, that a bear will   show up at a human’s house expecting free food like a slightly less   hairy, unemployed brother-in-law. 
A New Jersey man came to  face to face with Mother Nature’s professional  eating champion in the  driveway of his suburban home. The bear pushed  him to the ground by  punching him in the face, just so he could get a  bite of the delicious  Italian sub sitting on the tailgate of his pickup  truck. Apparently, the  bear thought he could lose weight simply by  eating two six-inch veggie  subs for breakfast and lunch and a foot long  sub of his choice for  dinner, which means that park rangers should be  on the lookout for an  angry, overweight bear seeking to exact his  revenge on Jared from  Subway.
9. Man vs. Bear vs. Cell Phone
 
Cell  phones have to be the least effective invention of the 20th  century,  just edging out in front of motion sensing car alarms, wish  fulfillment  self-help books, and male enhancement growth methods (it’s  the least fun  you can have putting your penis in something other than  discovering a  rat trap or Amy Winehouse is at the other end of it).
This,  however, may help bring the cell phone down a few notches as a  bear  deterrence device. A man from New York encountered nature’s  natural born  paper shredder and in a fit of panic, he accidentally  turned on his  cell phone that started emitting a beeping noise that  scared the bear,  giving him and his girlfriend a chance to make a break  for it. Motorola  so loved the man’s story that they actually featured  the tale in a short  commercial film, prompting millions of Americans to  purchase even more  annoying sounding ringtones, which may have staved  off a wave of bear  attacks but also increased random assaults in  libraries and elevators.
8. Man vs. Bear. vs Fist
 
Normally,  when the words “man,” “bear,” and “fist” are clumped together  in the  same headline, Chuck Norris is inevitably involved. This time,  however,  Chuck Norris had to take a sick day after contracting “swine  flu of the  fist” from punching pigs as part of a CDC effort to stem the  disease’s  rising tide.
A 67-year-old Canadian came face to face with a  polar bear while he was  still in his sleeping bag, his massive frame  standing on his gun. So  he remembered a trick he learned from an Inuit  elder: he punched it  square in the nose. This spooked the bear and he  scampered off into the  frosty wilderness, presumably in search of a  penguin that could kiss  his boo-boo to “make it all better.”
7. Man vs. Bear vs. Molars

The  average human being wouldn’t think of punching a bear in the face  if  they came face to face with one. Probably the most common form of  first  strike is urinating on oneself in the hope that the scent will  scare  them off or at least make them laugh long enough to create a  window of  escape.
One Chinese man was able to up the aforementioned  “bear puncher” by  fighting fire with fire. He climbed into a panda bear  enclosure hoping  to “hug” and “shake” the bear’s paw, but the panda  wasn’t feeling too  friendly and instead bit a big chunk out of his leg.  The man was  abhorred at the bear’s lack of proper greeting etiquette, so  he  responded by biting the bear back in the back.
And yes, in  case you still have to ask, the man was very drunk. The  panda’s blood  alcohol level could not be obtained by presstime.
6. Man vs. Bear vs. Brains

Any  park ranger will tell you that if a bear wants a bite of the food  that  you’ve so carelessly brought into the national park, the best  thing you  can do is give it to them. That includes any vital human  organs.
A  Canadian man who was being mauled by a large grizzly (a.k.a. nature’s   Slap Chop) somehow survived his painful ordeal, despite the fact that   the man could feel the bear eating his brain. The bear snuck up on the   man and started gnawing away at his skull, right down to the grey   matter. The man decided to play d**d, which isn’t too hard when a bear   is using your skull as a soup bowl but the bear suddenly stopped. The   man managed to drive himself to safety, despite the fact that part of   his brains where oozing out of his skull. Who says you need brains to   complete the most basic human functions? I mean besides Paris Hilton and   most of the Democratic and Republican candidate caucuses.
5. Man vs. Bear vs. Stick
 
When  it comes to high tech weaponry, you have to stand in awe in that  most  basic tool of ass-kickery: the stick. It doesn’t have high powered  laser  scopes or hollow-point technology. It doesn’t require training  of a  license to learn how to operate. You just pick it up and swing in  the  direction of your enemy.
Another Canadian walking his dogs  along the majestic Williams Lake in  British Columbia encountered a bear  that jumped on top of him and  starting mauling his face and head. The  man picked up the nearest  object he could find: a large stick. He  bludgeoned the bear to d**th  with it, crushing its skull with the  stick’s massive wooden weight. The  man survived but needed more than 60  stitches to his face and scalp.  The stick was sold to U.S. Department of  Defense’s ballistics and  weapons development lab for further testing  and military expansion.
4. Woman vs. Bear vs. Woman’s Fingers

Mankind  has come a long way in achieving gender equality. These days,  any woman  can down an entire bottle of Jack and headed off to the zoo  for a day  of news-making fun, just as easily and ignorantly as any  dunderhead with  a set of fuzzy dice. Rosie the Riveter was right.
One woman  scored a notch for the ladies (or lost one, depending on your  definition  of gender achievements) when she drunkenly wandered past  the guard  barriers of at a zoo in Wisconsin and tried to feed an  obviously hungry  bear a handful of her tasty vittles. The bear,  however, preferred human  food of another variety and bit off the  woman’s fingers as she reached  into the enclosure. The local mayor’s  office released a statement  confirming that the woman was intoxicated,  causing a public outcry  against the mayor for such an obvious waste of  paper and ink. 
3. Woman vs. Bear vs. Zucchini
 
Probably  the only time the sight of a large, bulbous zucchini would be  scary is  in some kind of prison setting or a visit to an overly  friendly  proctologist. 
A woman from Montana, however, was able to add a  third setting to that  list when she used nature’s most rudely shaped  vegetable to fend off an  attack from a bear. She was tending her garden  when the large animal  trotted up and bit her in the leg. She reached for  the nearest thing  she could find, a ripe zucchini and flung it at the  bear. The zucchini  must have been using Ron Jeremy strength Miracle-Gro  because it hit the  bear hard enough to scare it off back in the woods. 
2. Pregnant Woman vs. Bear vs. Car
 
Nothing  screams “born under a bad sign” more than a tragedy that is  immediately  followed by another tragedy (e.g. “New Coke” and “Crystal  Pepsi,” Kanye  West’s Grammy win and Kanye West’s Grammy acceptance  speech, everything  M. Night Shamaylan has done since The Sixth Sense).
One  Colorado Springs woman learned that lesson the hard way with her  bear  attack encounter. In fact, the bear was the least damaging  variable in  this equation of suck. A bear started chasing the woman  down but as she  tried to escape, she ran into the path of an oncoming  car. Thankfully,  she survived the ordeal with minor injuries, an even  more thankful  outcome since she was also pregnant at the time. Rangers  had to put the  bear down, but she gave her newborn a middle name,  “Bear,” in honor of  the posthumous ball of fuzz. The only way that  couldn’t be unsavorably  cool is if the kid’s first name is “Harry” and  his last name is “Butt.” 
1. Man vs. Bear vs. Lightning

Just  because two unlikely and unfortunate incidents don’t happen back  to  back doesn’t mean your luck barometer is about to run dry. Time is a   cruel and heartless bitch. She’s like Katherina from The Taming of the   Shrew without all that chirpy charm or charisma.
A man in  North Carolina survived a rather grisly (no pun intended, I’m  paid  better than that) bear attack one night in front of his home. He  was  wandering in the cold, dark breeze of his front yard because he  hasn’t  been able to get a decent night’s sleep since 2006...when he was  struck  by lightning.
Even the bear who bit a big chunk out of him is reading this and going  “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.”
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