This is not the only such case of a PETA-type tree-hugger getting a little TOO involved with the "cute" animals.

About 10 years ago some fool went to Africa to "commune" with the lions.
He had the same stupid fascination with lions as this nut had with bears.

Instead of doing what he was told, which was to hire an experience guide to take him out, he rented a four wheel drive vehicle and drove himself out to a game preserve.

He set up a camera to film him as he "interacted with the big cats, before approaching a group.

The camera fatefully recorded every moment as the lions killed and ate him.
Game officials destroyed the film so relatives could be spared the gruesome event.

In another case, some tourists from Germany were in a Northern Canadian town for the bear season.
This is when the polar bears come in off the ice and prowl around towns looking for whatever they can find to eat.
The police have to shoot several every year, and attacks on humans are not unusual.

These geniuses got tanked up in a local watering hole, then went out to look at the bears in the dark.
The patrons in the bar begged them not too, and called the police when they refused to listen.

Result: One dead and dragged off, one DRT, and one maimed for life.

Moral of these stories:  Some people are just plain too stupid to survive in the real world.

Interesting that they'd use simple 870's.

I guess they're looking for up close stopping power and rapid follow up eh?

I assumed these type a guys would be totin high powered rifles...even possibly those lever action guide gun setups....

I'm also surprised the one guy would carry a .40...not that animals are all that they're concerned with,it just seems like there'd be better choices in a handgun caliber with more versatility and ultimate stopping power if needed.

If you ever see the photos of his remains, you'll know why she was with him. . . . .. . . .and it doesn't have anything to do with self esteem!!!!!

This thread is useless w/o dead dirty hippie pics.  or 6min audio

I've got the photo, I just don't know how to get it to photobucket.  A girl in my Master's program sent it to me in an e-mail attachment.  I've tried to save it to a disk, but it keeps saying "corrupted."

Disrespectful, queer-hippie/ douche is eaten by a huge, hungry, old bear. BFD, where's the story in that?


Now just imagine if that little fox had eaten his face whilst he slept. The headlines would've read
"Flamboyant Grizzly Man eaten by rodent."

Quoted: Interesting that they'd use simple 870's. I guess they're looking for up close stopping power and rapid follow up eh? I assumed these type a guys would be totin high powered rifles...even possibly those lever action guide gun setups.... I'm also surprised the one guy would carry a .40...not that animals are all that they're concerned with,it just seems like there'd be better choices in a handgun caliber with more versatility and ultimate stopping power if needed.

I was camping with my dad once and woke up about 3am hearing noises outside the tent.  Thinking it was just racoons messing with our stuff we unzipped the tent and there was a bear sitting there about 3 feet away munching on some pringles left outside by some campers nearby.  My dad reaches over and grabs his trusty 22 pistol.  I said to him all you are going to do is piss him off with that thing.  I had my 357 mag in my hand by that time.  He finished his chips and walked off to find something else.

Do you think a 357 mag would have stopped it?    It was just a small black bear.

That'd be pretty fuckin hairy dude.

I would want something larger than a .357 mag,but I'd take a full power .357 over a .40.

I'm thinkin at the very least I'd want a .44 mag.I could carry one speed loader with magnums for the critters and one with specials for the dirtbags.

More likely I'd want something even more powerfull,but that's just me.

After watching the comedy fest it becomes apparent that the idiot who's delusions included his 'protecting the bears' suceeded only in getting 2 of those bears and his girlfriend killed. He has likely also corrupted the natural condition of all the bears in the area by not keeping his distance from them.

It never ceases to amaze me, some peoples total and complete refusal to realize that wild animals will kill you if you fuck with them. They are not domesticated kitty cats and puppy dogs.

On a trip through Yellowstone one summer, we watched 4 morons block the highway, get out of their car, and proceed to chuck rocks at a bull moose standing about 30 feet off the side of the road. When I tried to tell them that the moose would 'stomp a smoking mudhole in their asses', they replied with their east coast accent: "We've seen moose be-foah!"

I got back in my rig and watched the moose become agitated and begin pawing the ground and blowing snot. When the idiots maintained their stoning of Bullwinkle, he charged a couple of feet towards them. That didn't phase them. Finally the bull charged...the idiots jumped back in their car...but Bullwinkle proceeded to kick and horn their windows out. They screamed. We laughed.
The moose circled the car and kicked or used his antlers to break out ALL the windows trying to stomp these idiots.

Moral of the story is...wild animals just want to be left alone! They are not tame 'cartoon' animals and will kill you if it strikes their fancy. Wild grizzly bears are not Vermont Teddy Bears!

Deadly ending
Treadwell, girlfriend may have argued about dangers
By CRAIG MEDRED
Anchorage Daily News

Published: March 28, 2004
Last Modified: March 29, 2004 at 01:18 AM

The mauling deaths of Californian Timothy Treadwell and girlfriend Amie Huguenard at Alaska's Kaflia Bay in October may have begun with something as simple as the celebrity bear-man leaving his lunch to shoo away a wandering grizzly.
After more than a decade of summers spent hanging out among the bears of the Katmai coast, Treadwell considered himself a friend and companion of these bears. But Alaska State Troopers and other people who have reviewed evidence gathered after the couple died believe Huguenard was becoming increasingly nervous about life among the bears.
Newly released reports from troopers hint the two may have been arguing about the danger.
Nearly 70 pages of troopers memos, on-the-scene reports from National Park Service rangers, property records and maps were obtained by the Daily News in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests over a span of almost six months.
The records confirm that Treadwell, 46, and Huguenard, 37, were attacked just after 1:45 in the afternoon on Oct. 5 -- not at night, as originally believed -- and shed new details on what the couple might have been doing before the attack. Among the many documents in the report is one detailing the small amount of food that had earlier been reported found in the couple's flattened but otherwise undamaged tent.
The food, according to the report, consisted of:
• A small Butterfinger candy bar.
• A bottle of juice.
• A "hot dog or bratwurst.''
• Chips.
Given that menu, the time of day and a pictureless videotape said to record the sounds of rain hammering the couple's tent just before the bear attack, John Hechtel, an authority on bears with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said it is reasonable to conclude the couple had ducked into their only shelter in the brushy but treeless landscape to escape the weather and enjoy lunch.
Then they either saw or heard a bear approaching their camp. A videotape containing the sounds of what happened next indicates Treadwell went out into the weather to confront the bear. Troopers reports indicate Treadwell was dressed for going outside, not spending the day lounging inside the tent. Over his normal clothing, he wore nylon overpants made by Patagonia, one of several companies that supported Treadwell's annual summer sojourns among the bears on the coast of Katmai National Park, and a "nylon-lined, polyester insulated'' shirt or jacket.
Friends of Treadwell say it was his norm to try to chase bears out of his camp. Many professional bear biologists say they have done likewise but add they would be reluctant to confront the sort of mature, 1,000-pound adult boar that Treadwell apparently met that day.
Big grizzly males -- animals accustomed to ruling the wilderness in which they live -- "make me a lot more nervous than any others,'' Hechtel said, echoing the words of just about every scientist who has worked around Alaska grizzlies. Even Treadwell, in his 1997 book "Among Grizzlies,'' admitted to the potential danger posed by these bears. He described a chilling encounter with one such bear in the alder thickets that surround Kaflia Lake.
"This was Demon, who some experts label the '25th Grizzly,' the one that tolerates no man or bear, the one that kills without bias,'' Treadwell wrote. "I had thought Demon was going to kill me in the Grizzly Maze.''
The Grizzly Maze is what Treadwell called the area around Kaflia Bay and two small lakes that drain into the bay. The lakes support a late run of salmon that attracts the bears and attracted Treadwell. He usually spent the month of September there. Last fall, he was staying unusually late in the maze with Huguenard, and the troopers report indicates that things were not going well between the couple.
"I read the last several entries of the journals" kept by Treadwell and Huguenard, trooper Chris Hill wrote in one report to superiors. "They did not indicate anything unusual other than some arguing amongst Treadwell and Huguenard. Excepts (sic) of the Huguenard's journey (sic) did indicate that she was more or less afraid of the bears.''
If Treadwell and Huguenard were arguing over the dangers presented by the bears at Kaflia, and if Huguenard was growing increasingly nervous about the bears, Treadwell might have had even more incentive than normal to drop his lunch and chase the day's intruder out of camp.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Larry Van Daele, who viewed some videotapes that Treadwell and Huguenard recorded before their deaths, said it was obvious the woman was uneasy about being in the maze.
One "video shows Ms. Huguenard within three meters (10 feet) of a sow with cubs as they fish,'' Van Daele said. "One of the cubs came even closer to her while (Treadwell) filmed. She seemed uncomfortable but did not move. Some journal entries suggest that she was not as comfortable with the situation as he was.''
Treadwell, Van Daele said, in one video described "his campsite as (in) a potentially dangerous location, but he expresses his confidence that he understands these bears and they will not harm him.''
The videotapes and journals themselves were not available to the Daily News. Troopers say they were turned over to the executor and sole beneficiary of Treadwell's will -- Jewel Palovak of Malibu, Calif. Palovak was the co-author of "Among Grizzlies'' and Treadwell's partner in a nonprofit organization called Grizzly People.
Grizzly People, according to its Web site, "is a grassroots organization devoted to preserving bears and their wilderness habitat. Our goal is to elevate the grizzly to the kindred state of the whale and dolphin through supportive education in the hopes that humans will learn to live in peace with the bear, wilderness and fellow humans."
The organization claimed all donations it collected were used to fund:
• Annual four-month expeditions to protect the bears and other wild animals of Alaska.
• Photographic wildlife studies.
• Educational wildlife videos.
• Educational campaign in North American schools.
• Sharing of Grizzly People's photographs with other preservation organizations.
All of those activities were conducted by Treadwell, but usually in close communication with Palovak. In fact, only seven hours after troopers and park rangers had first gone to investigate a possible bear attack at Kaflia Bay -- more than 24 hours before the attacks would become public knowledge -- Palovak was on the phone to troopers in Kodiak trying to confirm a report from local air-taxi operator Dean Andrew that Treadwell might have been killed by a bear, according to troopers reports.
According to a memo from Hill, she offered help in contacting Treadwell's parents, volunteering that he "was estranged from his family so he didn't talk with them often." And she noted she had "power of attorney for Treadwell and would like to receive his belongings, to include his journals.''
Within days, Palovak also had a Los Angeles legal firm asking Alaska officials that "to protect the interest of the family of the decedent, we request that you refrain from further public dissemination of private information and materials, including, without limitation, the content of audiovisual tapes.''
Shortly after getting that letter, troopers imposed an information blackout. When the Park Service convened a Technical Board of Investigation in December to try to determine what had transpired to lead to the two deaths at Kaflia Bay two months earlier, it still couldn't obtain any information from troopers. It wasn't until after the board had completed its initial report, based on the assumption the attack happened in camp at night, that it learned troopers had known for some time that the attack actually came at midday.
According to the documents obtained by the Daily News, trooper Sgt. Maurice I. Hughes Jr. on Oct. 9 -- three days after Treadwell was discovered dead -- talked to a friend of the author and filmmaker in Malibu who explained how to retrieve the date-time stamp in Treadwell's digital video camera. Hughes said he subsequently discovered that the tape of Treadwell and Huguenard being mauled ran from 4:47:23 p.m. to 4:53:44 p.m. -- a span of 6 minutes, 21 seconds -- but that the camera was set to record the time for a time zone three hours ahead of Alaska.
Troopers knew then that the attack had occurred from 1:47 to 1:53 p.m. Alaska time on Oct. 5, but they were publicly saying there was no date-time stamp on the video. Not only in Alaska, but nationally and internationally, that led to widespread speculation that Treadwell and Huguenard had been attacked by a marauding grizzly at night.
The troopers reports shed no new light on what was on that pictureless videotape. Van Daele and others who have heard the audio have said there are the sounds of heavy rain, shouts from Huguenard to Treadwell to "play dead,'' pleas from Treadwell to Huguenard for help, including his request she hit the bear with a pan, and lastly Huguenard wailing.
There had been speculation that Treadwell, who often wore a microphone to record sounds when getting close to bears, might have been "miked up" when the attack started, but the new troopers documents indicate that was unlikely. An evidence report says his remote microphone was found in the same protective box with the camera inside the tent where he and Huguenard had apparently been lunching.
The reports do, however, suggest a new reason Treadwell might have gone back to the Grizzly Maze at a time when he was normally gone from there. Palovak told troopers, according to the reports, that Treadwell "was originally gonna do a driving trip to Denali Park for some different photo footage. (But) he was worried that one of his favorite bears wasn't sighted on an earlier trip to Kaflia and (he) wanted to go back.''
Hughes reported finding information in Treadwell's journals that put a different spin on things.
"It appeared Treadwell returned to Kaflia Bay because he realized that was where he wanted to be,'' Hughes said. "He canceled a driving trip around Alaska with Huguenard because he became angry with an airline employee about the cost of a change fee for their flight from Kodiak.''
Biologists and bear-viewing guides who knew Treadwell and watched his behavior along the Katmai coast for years said such an action is not out of character. Treadwell, said U.S. Geological Survey bear researcher Tom Smith, often displayed strange behaviors, sometimes fleeing at the site of other people, sometimes confronting them.
Treadwell sometimes liked to brag about how he protected bears at Kaflia by confronting poachers, though no evidence has surfaced that such confrontations took place or even that there were any poachers operating in the area. Park Service officials have no reports of poaching problems and add that it is hard to believe poachers would try to operate in one of the state's most heavily visited bear-viewing areas. Thousands of people now go to view the Katmai bears every summer, and the air-taxi companies that have made a big business of bear viewing are highly protective of the animals.
Still, Treadwell had told enough tales of poachers to California audiences that Hill, according to one of his reports, "received a telephone call from Rosemary White with the Sierra Club. She expressed her insight of the events regarding Treadwell's death being most likely committed by a hunter, due to Treadwell's past reports of having run-ins with poachers and Treadwell's acceptance by the bear population.''
An autopsy later confirmed both Treadwell and Huguenard had been killed by a bear. Troopers and park rangers who investigated the deaths of Treadwell and Huguenard believe they killed that bear -- a 1,000-pound male -- after it threatened them. The air-taxi pilot who'd first reported problems at Kaflia said the dead bear appeared to be the same one he saw sitting on a food cache from which some of Treadwell's remains were recovered. More of Treadwell's body, along with some of his clothing, was found in the bear when Van Daele performed a necropsy to see if there was anything wrong with the animal.
"We know we got one right bear, or there's very strong evidence of that,'' said acting medical examiner Franc Fallico. Fallico noted, however, that it would have been impossible to specifically match bite marks from the bear with the remains because of the damage done by the animal trying to eat the people.
Other than being 28 years old -- old for a grizzly -- and having bad teeth, Van Daele said the animal appeared to be in good condition. It was a little lean, he said, but nowhere near what might be considered starving. Why it decided to attack, kill and then partially consume two people is clearly never going to known, Hechtel said.
The bear's behavior will forever remain almost as much of a mystery as Timothy Dexter, the man who became Treadwell.
Hill said his father, Valentine Dexter, "informed me that Treadwell had actually changed his last name from Dexter to Treadwell, a stage name he had used while pursuing an entertainment career.''
Treadwell never made the big time in Hollywood. But he wrote a book, made the "The Late Show With David Letterman," starred in a couple movies about bears, put on his one-man shows for schoolchildren and environmentalists and acted as an adviser to the Disney Co. on the animated feature film "Brother Bear.''
"Brother Bear" opened three weeks after Treadwell's death, and quickly faded.
The legend of Timothy Treadwell, however, remains.

wouldn't surprise me if the fr00ts sacrificed themselves to the bears

Still, Treadwell had told enough tales of poachers to California audiences that Hill, according to one of his reports, "received a telephone call from Rosemary White with the Sierra Club. She expressed her insight of the events regarding Treadwell's death being most likely committed by a hunter, due to Treadwell's past reports of having run-ins with poachers and Treadwell's acceptance by the bear population.'' An autopsy later confirmed both Treadwell and Huguenard had been killed by a bear.

Always looking to blame others for someones stupidity and irresponsibility...

Quoted: After watching the comedy fest it becomes apparent that the idiot who's delusions included his 'protecting the bears' suceeded only in getting 2 of those bears and his girlfriend killed. He has likely also corrupted the natural condition of all the bears in the area by not keeping his distance from them. It never ceases to amaze me, some peoples total and complete refusal to realize that wild animals will kill you if you fuck with them. They are not domesticated kitty cats and puppy dogs. On a trip through Yellowstone one summer, we watched 4 morons block the highway, get out of their car, and proceed to chuck rocks at a bull moose standing about 30 feet off the side of the road. When I tried to tell them that the moose would 'stomp a smoking mudhole in their asses', they replied with their east coast accent: "We've seen moose be-foah!" I got back in my rig and watched the moose become agitated and begin pawing the ground and blowing snot. When the idiots maintained their stoning of Bullwinkle, he charged a couple of feet towards them. That didn't phase them. Finally the bull charged...the idiots jumped back in their car...but Bullwinkle proceeded to kick and horn their windows out. They screamed. We laughed. The moose circled the car and kicked or used his antlers to break out ALL the windows trying to stomp these idiots. Moral of the story is...wild animals just want to be left alone! They are not tame 'cartoon' animals and will kill you if it strikes their fancy. Wild grizzly bears are not Vermont Teddy Bears!

That has to be the funniest stupid person story I've heard in a while. I think it almost tops the kid that was trying to play russian roulette with a pistol....except that guy was darwin award material.

Mom: "Son, what do you want to be when you grow up?"

Son: "I want to be bear shit."

"The attached pictures are of a guy who works for the forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The thing was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head.

It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, and 12' 6" high at the shoulder. It's a world record. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. The bear had killed a couple of other people. Its last meal was human."




http://www.strangesports.com/images/content/10647.jpg

Is that the same bearhugger?

Holy Shnit to that photo.

Maybe the bear killed them because he was sick of them hanging out there all the time and talking to them.  It couldn't say leave, it couldn't say stop your liberal whining, so it killed them and ate them.  No more annonying hippies.

Unfortunately the bear was killed later.

humans will learn to live in peace with the bear, wilderness and fellow humans."

This guy obviously had no concept of the "food chain" or his position in it.

Hint: the only reason you can even come close to a bear on the chain is if you have a firearm. Otherwise, you're lunch.

"Hey bear fucker, you need assistance?"

From the story, there was even less of timothy and his girlfriend left

That guy was a stark raving lunatic!

I watchedthe show and thought it was spoof documentary.  If  this wasn't so sad, and this guys metanlly ill it would be funny.

You know this guy thought he was really sticking it to the park service by violating their rules like "not getting too close to the bears."  I really think it was poetic justice how he met his end.  The only folks I feel sorry for are maybe the family, but they were probably liberal anti-hunters themselves.

Anyone know why they say to file the front sight of your pistol down when you go bear hunting?
So it don't hurt so bad when it shoves the pistol up your ass...

Quoted: "The attached pictures are of a guy who works for the forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The thing was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, and 12' 6" high at the shoulder. It's a world record. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. The bear had killed a couple of other people. Its last meal was human." www.strangesports.com/images/content/10647.jpg

That's not Timothy Treadwell.  There was much less of him left than that.  The story above says that there was less than 40 lbs. of remains left.

the poor dude in the above pix was eaten by wolves

bears don't leave limbs attached

Guy  is a serious nut job.

What's with the paranoia?

Bear watchers leave smiley faces and "high Timothy see you in 2001" carved into logs addressed to the nut job they see watching them from the woods(he thinks he's secret squirrel apparently),and he calls it some sorta death threat?  

Anybody know how much a guided bear hunt at the Grizzy Maze would go for?

Quoted: Anybody know how much a guided bear hunt at the Grizzy Maze would go for?

I don't know, but I'd love to go on a bear hunt. I wonder if hippies make bear meat taste bad.

"I know the language of the bears blah, blah, blah."

He must not have heard them when they said "Hey Asshole, next time I see you I'm going to eat you and your woman."

Quoted: Quoted: Anybody know how much a guided bear hunt at the Grizzy Maze would go for? I don't know, but I'd love to go on a bear hunt. I wonder if hippies make bear meat taste bad.

Hell they might make them taste better .

Quoted: I could almost swear I saw the black tape on the net a couple years ago.

I would swear on a stack of Bibles I heard it also.

Did anyone else think he sounded like Mr. Rogers?

"Why, there's Chocolate. How are you today Mr. Chocolate? You look fine. Well, I have to go protect some more bears, I wish I could take you Mr. Chocolate. Oh, there's Spirit. And she brought her babies! Oh happy, happy, joy, joy!"

"You must never listen to this tape"

"I will never listen to this tape"

"And you must never see the photographes at the Medical Examiners office"

" I will never look at those photographs"

"You should destroy this tape"

"I will destory it"

I think he was using the old Jedi mind trick on her.  

Someone needs to remember where they saw this Black tape and post it...

I think he gotten eaten BECAUSE of the chick.  

They said that her journal said that she was going to leave hem when they got back to civilization.

They said that he had stayed out there way longer (far into October) than he ever had before and his normal bears (his regulars) had gone into hibernation.  The bears he was now encountering were more dangerous hungry bears that had come from the interior because they hadn't gotten enough food to go into hibernation.  He had never had contact with these bears before because he had never stayed so far into the season.

He was staying because he wanted time with the girl to repair things before they went back and she left him.

Dumbass.

*  This is purely an assumption from clues, but completely plausible, given how insane this guy was.

I heard about him for a while....
I ws flipping and saw him last night.
At first I thought it was a parody of this stupid ass.
I did watch the show for a while, I was glad the involved (with the cleanup) parties were interviewed and they told it like it was.
4 garbage bags of tree huggin' dumb asses in the belly of the bear! Too funny. I searched the net and the audio hasn't been leaked yet. I can hear it now;"Your a big bear, you're the boss, but I'm a noble warrior...you could eat me if you wanted couldn't you...hey, thats enough.....hey stop it silly....auaaaagggggghhhhhhhh!"

The interesting thing to me was the fox part and how that did show how the domestic dog was tamed....camp followers, pretty neat.
Oh yeah, those bears were f*ckin' huge, he got what he asked for.

Quoted: I watched as much as I could stomach, the guy was a raving loon.  Good purpose, genuine concern for the animals, very bad execution. He’s bear scat now.  Probably thinks that is just grand.

I don't think he was scat yet, in the sense that he was intestinal contents still....see my above post.

Watched it last night. The guy was manic-depressant at the very least and possibly paranoid schizophrenic. I dated a woman who had the same two problems so I've seen his type of behavior.

Edit. After thinking about it, I don't think he was paranoid schizo. That was just part of his act. He was trying to portray himself as the avenging angel/sole savior of the wildlife when he really wasn't. He stacked the rocks up and wrote the message on the branch. It was just part of his glory-seeking persona.

He seemed really adamant about not being gay, but he sure sounded like one.

He was out there trying to change nature...not only his mere presense there, but trying to alter the flow of that creek to help the bears feed better. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I noticed the co-founder of "Grizzly People" (the short-haired hippy woman who owns the "death tape") sure was living good in her beach-side house! Considering she's a moon-bat, you know she doesn't have a real job and she's living large on the foundation money. Psycho-man was living like a bum out in the Alaskan wilderness and she still has the best part of that partnership.

Tredwell's "girlfriend" was 37 years old and should have been smart enough to understand the most basic realities of life (like the food chain)

The copter pilot seemed like the only sane person in the film. Everyone else (including the coroner) were whacked out of their minds.

I liked the still pics he made, but any professional photographer could have gone up there and made similar pics without getting eaten alive.

The bottom line was he was liberal/hippy with mental problems, trying to make himself into a "star" and he really didn't understand a damn thing about nature. At least the film was honest and showed how screwed up he was.

-Scott