It's All In How You Read The Story

Father Kills 300-Pound Bear With Log

AP, Posted on aol.com: 2007-06-22 21:19:43

HELEN, Ga. (June 22) - A 300-pound black bear raided a family's campsite, and the father saved his sons from harm by throwing a log at the beast, killing it with a single blow.

Chris Everhart and his three sons were camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia when the encounter happened Saturday. The bear took the family's cooler and was heading back to the woods when the youngest son, 6-year-old Logan, hurled a shovel at it.

The bear then dropped the cooler and started coming at the boy, said his father. Fearing what might happen next, Everhart, an ex-Marine , grabbed the closest thing he could find - a log from their stash of firewood.

"(I) threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."


Everhart was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said Ken Riddleberger, a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

"We've not had an attack in Georgia," Riddleberger said. "The key thing to learn from this is if there's a bear around, do not have your garbage or food available. If we manage our food, we won't have bears around."

The attack happened the same weekend that an 11-year-old boy was killed by a black bear while camping in a forest in Utah. Sam Ives was found mauled to death after he was pulled screaming from his tent in the Uinta National Forest, about 30 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.

Authorities said it was the first recorded fatal attack by a black bear in that state. His family said there was no food in the tent to attract a bear.


Soap Box Ravings says "Since there has never been a recorded attack on a human by a bear in Georgia it is obvious in this case that the bear was the victim and Everhart had to be ticketed."

The Regional Game Magement Supervisor states basically that we should learn from this but it is hard to learn when you don't get the correct point. I can't help but wonder if those who actually work in the forest with the animals actually agree with this politically correct supervisor.

Soap Box Ravings says "The bears are there whether food is left out or not. It's the freaking woods, it is were they live stupid."

To me this is another reason why citizens should be armed when they are in the woods and they should be armed with large caliber weapons while in bear country.

As I have previously noted:

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

Animal control, on the other hand, will be way, way, wayyyyy behind the arrival of the police officers.

Last year while on an alaskan tour to view bears, the Inuit guide carried a .338 Winchester Magnum rifle "in case we actually ran into any of the local bears."