Six percent of people think they can beat a grizzly bear (7 Viewers)

[kizzy821]

Just for the record, a goose can’t eat a person. A goose lacks any meaningful capability to harm a person beyond through the chaos of fear.

Once you overcome the fear that the wild attacking animal brings, it’s merely a goose. Big wings, beak/bill designed to eat grains and berries, and webbed feet.

The neck is an obvious weakness. You are an advanced, capable primate. Seize the obvious weakness.

LMAO no, I mean any other amimal besides the goose and I'll get chewed up.

That neck does look weak.

What about a Pelican though. That big pouch and pointy bill. I think I'd just run.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

LMAO no, I mean any other amimal besides the goose and I'll get chewed up.

That neck does look weak.

What about a Pelican though. That big pouch and pointy bill. I think I'd just run.

Don’t listen to Chuck when it comes to birds - his hatred of birds makes him too much like Capt Quint

 

[kizzy821]

Don’t listen to Chuck when it comes to birds - his hatred of birds makes him too much like Capt Quint

Ha! I thought I sensed his deep disdain for the goose, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions.

I have a love/hate relationship with them flockers.

 

[Saintman2884]

1. I wonder what possesses someone to actually think they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight

2. I have a mental image of the type of person who actually thinks they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight. I wonder how close I am

The answer to both of your questions is would your mental image of the type of person who could take on and beat a grizzly bear actually resemble Wolverine, the X-Men? Or somebody who looked like him but was taller, nastier, vicious, and bigger but didn't have his quick-healing factor?

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

I think it's interesting that between grizzly bears and crocodiles it's pretty much equal between men and women. That tells me that we're equally nuts.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

If you don’t, reality crumbles and we’re merely floating through existence untethered to anything meaningful.

Well you happened upon the ultimate truth, nothing matters.

 

[Saintman2884]

Well you happened upon the ultimate truth, nothing matters.

Nothing ELSE Matters

 

[Eeyore]

It's been four hours and I haven't seen a network announcement about a show.

 

[Crzycjunx76]

Or somebody who looked like him but was taller, nastier, vicious, and bigger but didn't have his quick-healing factor?

I am a tall, large, strong man. I have actually killed a rat and a Goose(on accident/reflex) before without weaponry.

At one point a decade(ish) ago I would have liked my chances, but not been "sure", with an animal up to a large dog. That is the limit of it though.

Big, strong, quick humans, are weak and slow animals. Our advantage is supposed to be cognative... this survey shows it is obviously not for quite a few people.

Unarmed against a Grizzly bear? Adult ape? Nope. Totally doomed. If it was like the goose situation, where it was going for my kid, i would try to fight... but knowing I was only serving as a distraction, a very brief distraction. If no kids are involved, im trying to GTFO of there.

Firearms tip the scale... but I am not intentionally going after a Grizzly even if I have a gun.

The Grizzly folks should absolutley be the type red flag laws point out.

 

[Paul]

I've been training for years for the inevitable goose attack. I got this.

I know a guy that looks like me, same height, build, and everything - even has the same name and birthday as me, weird I know. Well, that guy got his arse absolutely terrorized and whipped by a gaggle of geese. I was embarrassed for him.




This thread has tremendous potential, btw.

 

[Xeno]

I wholly believe I can take a goose down. Fork them, who do they think they are?

Meme removed. Blatant Profanity.

 

[Saintman2884]

I am a tall, large, strong man. I have actually killed a rat and a Goose(on accident/reflex) before without weaponry.

At one point a decade(ish) ago I would have liked my chances, but not been "sure", with an animal up to a large dog. That is the limit of it though.

Big, strong, quick humans, are weak and slow animals. Our advantage is supposed to be cognative... this survey shows it is obviously not for quite a few people.

Unarmed against a Grizzly bear? Adult ape? Nope. Totally doomed. If it was like the goose situation, where it was going for my kid, i would try to fight... but knowing I was only serving as a distraction, a very brief distraction. If no kids are involved, im trying to GTFO of there.

Firearms tip the scale... but I am not intentionally going after a Grizzly even if I have a gun.

The Grizzly folks should absolutley be the type red flag laws point out.

You do know or are aware from archeological research, discoveries, predating the end of the last Ice Age(Neolithic period) around 10,000 years ago that for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals and our earliest homo sapiens sapiens prototype, Cro-magnums, routinely and regularly hunted large game mammals like sloths, wooly mammoths, and saber-tooth tigers and dire wolves just to keep themselves alive in hunter-gatherer societies. Most of these animals our genetic/human ancestors hunted 50,000 years ago were just as big, ferocious, nasty, and dangerous as grizzlies or black bears are now, and they didnt have guns, but flint knifes, spears, or daggers and even while hunting in large packs, didnt always succeed in killing or injurying their prey. Swords werent invented until the Bronze Age when complex, differential cultures, metallurgy and civilizations had arrived and made themselves distinct from one another(ancient Egyptians, Hittites, Sumerians, Indus Valley civilization in India, Akkadians, Minoans and Myceneans, and then the early Jewish ancestors, Isrealites.



All I'm saying is most times, those hunter-gatherers, be it Neanderthals or Cro-Magnums could kill larger game animals then bears 40,000 years ago, by out-thinking, outmanuevering, out-smarting it, all without the use of firearms or destructive weaponry, then I don't see why some humans, at least, today couldn't be capable of doing it now, if under extreme, dire circumstances where we had no choice.

If our ancestors could successfully hunt and kill dire wolves, which were basically larger, bigger, enormous versions of modern-day timberwolves, with just spears and flint knives, in extremely cold, frigid conditions, grizzly bears wouldn't be too much greater of a challenge.

 

[Crzycjunx76]

If our ancestors could successfully hunt and kill dire wolves, which were basically larger, bigger, enormous versions of modern-day timberwolves, with just spears and flint knives, in extremely cold, frigid conditions, grizzly bears wouldn't be too much greater of a challenge.

I am pretty sure the origional context was an unarmed individual human. Groups and non-firearm weaponry could change matters. Any sort of polearm would be my choice personally, though a spear with an atlatl would be a quality choice as well. I think reach/range are my preferences.

 

[faceman]

6% of humans have a death wish. No human can take this punch



Mike Tyson offered 10 grand to a zoo security guard to fight a gorilla. Thankfully, the guard had common sense.
A gorilla will rip your head off. A grizzly has 1600 PSI in a paw swipe. That will break the spine of any feline or human
on earth.

word to the wise. Don't bang your chest at a silverback. It's a challenge you won't win .

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Just need to think like a maverick to take out a goose…