Insane in the membrane
Plenty insane
Got no brain
We watched Grizzly Man tonight.
Timothy Treadwell was a guy who lived among grizzlies in Alaska. It appears he thought the bears were people in furry bear suits. He thought he was "guarding" and "protecting" the bears.
He lived among the bears (in violation of many Park Service rules... such as coming within 100 feet of the bears). They became habituated to his presence. He often got close enough to actually touch the 600 pound bears.
And one of them got tired of his shit and ate him.
The only true tragedy is that the bear that ate him and his girlfriend was shot by park service employees.
If I was a Katmai Grizzly, I would have taken his head off with one swipe.
Timothy Treadwell was a guy who lived among grizzlies in Alaska. It appears he thought the bears were people in furry bear suits. He thought he was "guarding" and "protecting" the bears.
He lived among the bears (in violation of many Park Service rules... such as coming within 100 feet of the bears). They became habituated to his presence. He often got close enough to actually touch the 600 pound bears.
And one of them got tired of his shit and ate him.
The only true tragedy is that the bear that ate him and his girlfriend was shot by park service employees.
If I was a Katmai Grizzly, I would have taken his head off with one swipe.
posted by Joe at
9:24 PM
4 Comments:
I agree. I think he did a disservice to the bears. Do you think wild animals can sense the mentally ill and that's why they cut him some slack for so long?
They must have, P. (known he was cukoo-cuckoo)
It seems to me that all he did was hang out dangerously close to them, give them cutesy names and talk to them in a high-pitched voice.
He made grandiose claims that he was "protecting" them, but I could not for the life of me see exactly how.
Those foxes were damn cute, though.
I want one.
Except they would probably eat my little Doodlebug.
I got the impression that they grew accustomed to him - the ones he got to know and kept coming back to every year. As long as they didn't need to eat him to survive, everything was hunky dory (bowie reference). Problem was the older, hungrier bears that couldn't catch salmon sniffed his ass out and ate him and the chick.
Good story though..goes to show all those animals people think will not hurt humans..will..but time will go by and some other person with a PETA mentality will try it again, and probably with the same results
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