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MechAg94

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Polar Bear Attack in Canada found in FOIA Incident
« on: September 08, 2022, 02:12:19 PM »
I saw this on Ammoland.  Interesting story.  A good warning that some animals are deadly and don't give a damn if you are a person. 
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/09/polar-bear-attack-in-canada-found-in-foia-incident/?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)

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Far above the Arctic Circle, on December 18, 1983, a man was attacked by a sow polar bear and her cub, without provocation, on King Christian Island. Colleagues were able to stop the bears from killing and eating the victim. A colleague drove off the bear using a front-end loader in spite of repeated attempts by the sow to retake possession of the wounded man.  The arrival of a pickup truck with an armed passenger resulted in the sow being wounded and both bears were driven off. The man survived.

The incident was revealed in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response obtained by AmmoLand from the Department of the Interior.

Because the names of the people involved have been redacted, pseudonyms have been used to make the account more readable. Panarctic Oils was conducting an exploration of arctic resources in 1983. One of their bases was on King Ch
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