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Yeah I don't think you can mimic how a bear would kill someone.
*Headline wasn't what I read it as, the actual friend did find him like that and thought it was a bear attack.
If I were in the friend's position I doubt I would have gotten a close enough look to differentiate. The autopsy said the victim had "multiple chop wounds" including to the skull so it was probably a machete or ax attack. With lots of long deep wounds and blood there wasn't much chance he was alive when the friend found him so it's plausible that the friend didn't actually go into the campsite, just saw the blood and assumed it was a bear because what other animal could do that much damage.
what other animal could do that much damage.
Humans :^(
I want to downvote this answer because of how it makes me feel. But... yeah.
Fun fact, there’s a possibility that our hands evolved the way they did, because using them as clubs was useful.
And by fun, I mean depressing.
So are you saying that if I had to choose between a random human or a random bear then I should pick the bear?
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IIRC it's not even close if we consider insects (because of mosquitoes) but otherwise I think you're actually right
Homo homini ursus
This is not far from Yellowstone so there will be grizzlies in that area. I could absolutely see someone finding this scene and getting panicked and running to find a cell signal instead of performing forensic analysis of the scene. But yeah the cops weren't the ones saying it was a bear, they got it at least.
Bears will usually drag you out of the tent and start eating you in the open. They don’t usually kill to kill. They kill by consuming.
PSA: Bear attacks are incredibly rare. Most attacks are "get away from me and my cubs". They do not see humans as food and do not hunt humans, those incredibly rare cases are sick or starving bears.
When I go camping I bring spray for the wildlife and a .45 ACP pistol for the humans. What makes camping out there great is also what makes it dangerous.
I've got no objection to the pistol, but what is the likelihood of being murdered camping alone in the middle of the woods like this guy was?
I camp alone fairly frequently. Usually the worst people I met are hipsters who can’t get their alchy stoves working for morning coffee and smell the perc.
No. Im not sharing. (The coffee. They can use the fire too,)
About as high as being mauled by a bear (assuming you took the standard precautions). Highly unlikely but also non-zero.
Significantly higher than zero, apparently
Higher yes, significantly not necessarily.
The body was found in a tent. Not much time to protect yourself when you're asleep.
C’mon, the bear closed the tent flap?
Bears be polite like that!
I always slept with my S&W Governor
.40 here. Better not come up on my tent in the night unannounced.
Manners says you always announce yourself entering a campsite. It's like going aboard a ship.
Is this not normal?
Must be stressful to live so paranoid.
Hahaha I said words
Interesting comment under an article about a guy hacked to death in his tent... Yeah, I'm just paranoid🙄
I don't know why but it reminds me of a case of a couple murdered when they were camping, with the killer leaving their camera behind, with mysterious black and white photo of some interior made after the last photo of the couple made in the bed of their truck. I can't remember their names now.
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