25 January 2011

Don't Tase Eat Me, Bro!

Or, "Trodding Where Treadwell Trod".

From the Daily Mail:


A dramatic new series of photographs, by Russian photographer Sergey Gorshkov, show the bears fishing for their supper in Kurile Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.
How close did this guy have to get for THIS one?


The wildlife enthusiast risked his life swimming just a few feet from the animals at the rural site, which is home to more than 18,000 of them.


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Read the whole article at the link.



At least he's not as oblivious to the danger as was the ill-fated Timothy Treadwell, who posited that bears were misunderstood, and just wanted to be our friends.

They ate him and his girlfriend, too.


h/t to Bayou Renaissance Man

5 comments:

Jenny said...

eeek!

Oh... well, at least he brought something productive out of the back country, but still... bad bad bad. That's the kind of self-mindedness that gets bears killed. :(

As a side note... remember that lodge I mentioned working a summer at? They played the Treadwelll movie fair often for guests.

... for laughs.

Home on the Range said...

Maybe if the bears had liked Treadwell's "special brownies" they would have been more mellow.

Rev. Paul said...

Jenny - Alaskans still think Treadwell was an idiot for camping on a bear's game trail. Laughter? Yeah.

Brigid - awww, you gave away the ending!

Heh.

ViolentIndifference said...

Brigid: Makes me think of Futurama and Lrrr eating the dirty hippie. "My hands are HUUUGE!"

I'm a bit disappointed that dirty hippies can't even be cleaned and dressed. If not poison, at least indigestion.

Teresa said...

Sadly the photographer has lived and will likely reproduce his idiot genes. *sigh*