The founder of an animal welfare group which campaigns for the protection of grizzly bears, has been killed by a bear during a camping trip in Alaska.
The bodies of Timothy Treadwell, 46, and his camping companion Amie Huguenard, 37, were found in the Katmai National Park.
Mr Treadwell's website said he had lived peacefully with Alaskan grizzlies since the late 1980s "without weapons".
Park rangers later killed two aggressive bears they discovered at the campsite and closed the park.
Ironically, his website does give the advice to stay at least 100 yards from bears at all times and talks about the extreme danger that grizzlies can pose to humans.
I guess he should have packed a weapon after all.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Ironic. Won't exerise his right to bear arms; ends up getting killed by bear arms.
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
Durran Korr wrote:Ironic. Won't exerise his right to bear arms; ends up getting killed by bear arms.
*ouch, ouch the PAIN*
Really though all things considered, shouldn't laugh. This is a waste of a life. Contributed to his own demise, but he was engaged in a worthy cause (judging from that snippet that is, I don't know if he was some crazy ALFer or something)
