My Bear
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Hey hey, boo boo.Dallas;2836494 said:So yeah - Im going outside and he's all "Hey, can you drop me off at TGIF's?"
Dude scared the bejeezus out of me.I just took this about 5 min ago btw.
Notice how relaxed I am behind the Steel Curtain Screendoor.
Whoa, bear....whoa!
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Dallas;2836494 said:So yeah - Im going outside and he's all "Hey, can you drop me off at TGIF's?"
Dude scared the bejeezus out of me.
Notice how relaxed I am behind the Steel Curtain Screendoor.
Whoa, bear....whoa!
He's just saying....Hey I just wanted to play. Come on out. :cry:
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Hostile;2837767 said:
Yeah they are not so funny, I was rock climbing and was trying to pull myself up on a ledge when there was the grand pappy of them all sitting on that same ledge sunning himself I guess.
I let go and was lucky to have only broken a collar bone...had I stayed I would have been bit full in the face as when I was falling he got only my hat and took it with him...so if anybody comes by a Dallas Cowboys hat circa 1978 -79 full of Rattlesnake venom in west Texas it belongs to me or rather him but I would like it back...ah...without the snake.
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Hostile;2837767 said:
Speaking, once I was in bed and woke up because something was touching my face. Next to my head on the pillow was a Taranchula that was easily 6" across. I literally went from flat on my back to flying airborne all the way to the light switch that was about 10 feet away.
Needless to say, I become arachnophobic for years after that. (I was about 13 when it happen) I've recently (over the five years or so) overcome it. (for the most part anyway)
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When I was young I was on the dock of a fishing pond in Florida. I was bending over trying to get some water from the pond to put in a bucket I had with minnows in it.
I fell into the pond and some of the plants under the water got tangled around my legs.
Now this pond was known to have an alligator in it at times. The pond was not that far from a small river.
Sure enough, with my luck, the alligator was in the pond on this day.
I turn around in the water and notice the alligator starting to move towards me.
I was having trouble with the plants wrapped around my legs and noticed the alligator getting closer and closer. Finally I pulled myself up onto the dock and in the process losing a shoe and getting scrapes all up my stomach and chest (did not have a shirt on).
So that was pretty scary as a youth but the funniest part was that on the other side of the pond there was a pic nic table and my mother was sitting on it. The whole time she did not move a muscle. After I got out she finally came over and said she was paralyzed with fear when she seen me fall in and the alligator coming towards me. I replied with...Thanks Mom.:laugh2:
Now for an adrenaline story (like Hos mentioned).
I was stationed in Louisiana. My cousin was stationed there as well and had married a girl that lived there. Her family had a nice fishing cabin and land right by a lake.
So one weekend he and I went to go to the cabin and do some fishing.
The land was fenced off and had one of those tall cattle gates.
We went in, he locked the gate and we went over to the cabin.
He got a shot gun out of the cabin and we walked back outside. He said man alive look at that huge bees (or whatever flying/stinging insects they were) nest hanging up in this tree.
I look up and then he shoots the thing with the shotgun, runs into the cabin laughing and locks the door like the turd that he is.
I had two choices, run and jump in the lake or run away from the area.
I knew if I jumped into the lake not only would I get soaked but probably would have been stuck in mud trying to get in or out of it.
So I decided to run. I hurdled that huge cattle gate, ripped my pants from crotch to ankle and kept on running.
To this day it is a miracle that I hurdled that gate without touching it with my hands or anything and he said I looked like the 6 million dollar man because I jumped so far, he said I jumped a good number of feet before I even got to the gate and he does not know how I cleared it.:laugh1:
I fell into the pond and some of the plants under the water got tangled around my legs.
Now this pond was known to have an alligator in it at times. The pond was not that far from a small river.
Sure enough, with my luck, the alligator was in the pond on this day.
I turn around in the water and notice the alligator starting to move towards me.
I was having trouble with the plants wrapped around my legs and noticed the alligator getting closer and closer. Finally I pulled myself up onto the dock and in the process losing a shoe and getting scrapes all up my stomach and chest (did not have a shirt on).
So that was pretty scary as a youth but the funniest part was that on the other side of the pond there was a pic nic table and my mother was sitting on it. The whole time she did not move a muscle. After I got out she finally came over and said she was paralyzed with fear when she seen me fall in and the alligator coming towards me. I replied with...Thanks Mom.:laugh2:
Now for an adrenaline story (like Hos mentioned).
I was stationed in Louisiana. My cousin was stationed there as well and had married a girl that lived there. Her family had a nice fishing cabin and land right by a lake.
So one weekend he and I went to go to the cabin and do some fishing.
The land was fenced off and had one of those tall cattle gates.
We went in, he locked the gate and we went over to the cabin.
He got a shot gun out of the cabin and we walked back outside. He said man alive look at that huge bees (or whatever flying/stinging insects they were) nest hanging up in this tree.
I look up and then he shoots the thing with the shotgun, runs into the cabin laughing and locks the door like the turd that he is.
I had two choices, run and jump in the lake or run away from the area.
I knew if I jumped into the lake not only would I get soaked but probably would have been stuck in mud trying to get in or out of it.
So I decided to run. I hurdled that huge cattle gate, ripped my pants from crotch to ankle and kept on running.
To this day it is a miracle that I hurdled that gate without touching it with my hands or anything and he said I looked like the 6 million dollar man because I jumped so far, he said I jumped a good number of feet before I even got to the gate and he does not know how I cleared it.:laugh1:
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No matter what you think, Dallas, that's not me...
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A friend of mine and I were out in the country at this old school that is supposed to be haunted. The farmer who owns it has no trespassing signs because a lot of people visit it. This is at night and we're walking in the field and all the sudden I see this cop spotlight getting closer and closer. We take off running to the woods and about 10 feet before we get there I see this barbed wire fence and completely dive over it right when the light hits me. I'm not sure if the cop saw me or not.
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silverbear;2838028 said:
That bear isn't old enough
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silverbear;2838028 said:
Of course, we knew that.
No grey fur on that one.
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Personally I wouldn't want no part of a bear. They really can become quite a nuicance(sp?) and are very dangerous.
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Two summers ago, My wife, one year old daughter, and I took a trip to New Hampshire to visit some extended family. We were staying at my in-laws' time share which was a mountain resort. It is weird being from a place that doesn't have black bear because I had never really took it to heart when people say to lock gates and use trash cans with locking lids when you live in a place where black bear live.
Well one evening we were returning from a day trip and we got out of the car in the resort parking lot, loaded my one year old into her stroller, and prepared to walk to our room. Well the second we got out of the car, there were two young boys saying that there was a bear. Our first reaction was that they say a bear in the nearby woods. Well we turn around and not 5 yards from us there is a black bear going through the resorts dumpster. My wife darted towards the door while pushing the stroller and got inside fast.
My first reaction was to see if I could get a picture of the thing. The bear was not threatening or anything, but it was having trouble getting into the dumpster so it decided to move on. I was directly in it's path so I got out of the way as quickly as possible. This bear was obviously used to people, because it just walked along it's path knowing that anybody would move out of the way. I tried to snap some pictures, but karma caught up with me for not running initially. The digital camera I have is a Kodak with a small dial for the different modes of operation, and I guess when I pulled it out of the case, the dial was turned off of autofocus and on to manual focus. I didn't pay attention to it as I was taking pictures as quickly as I could. Sure enough no pictures turned out at all. Major fail.
Well one evening we were returning from a day trip and we got out of the car in the resort parking lot, loaded my one year old into her stroller, and prepared to walk to our room. Well the second we got out of the car, there were two young boys saying that there was a bear. Our first reaction was that they say a bear in the nearby woods. Well we turn around and not 5 yards from us there is a black bear going through the resorts dumpster. My wife darted towards the door while pushing the stroller and got inside fast.
My first reaction was to see if I could get a picture of the thing. The bear was not threatening or anything, but it was having trouble getting into the dumpster so it decided to move on. I was directly in it's path so I got out of the way as quickly as possible. This bear was obviously used to people, because it just walked along it's path knowing that anybody would move out of the way. I tried to snap some pictures, but karma caught up with me for not running initially. The digital camera I have is a Kodak with a small dial for the different modes of operation, and I guess when I pulled it out of the case, the dial was turned off of autofocus and on to manual focus. I didn't pay attention to it as I was taking pictures as quickly as I could. Sure enough no pictures turned out at all. Major fail.