Black Bear Mauls Florida Woman, Drags Her Out of Garage

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ABC News

By LIZ FIELDS

The hunt is on today for a black bear who mauled a woman at her home in an upscale central Florida neighborhood, leaving her with injuries to her face, legs and torso and requiring her to get 40 stitches to the head.

Terri Frana of Lake Mary, Fla., went to her garage Saturday evening to grab bicycles for her children to ride down to their neighbor's house when the attack happened, according to her husband, Frank Frana.

As soon as the children left, Frana, 45, saw two bears in the driveway. She walked to the patio area where there were five bears eating trash that they had pulled out of the garage, her husband said.

"The bear got up on [its] hind legs and started to maul her, opened its jaws and put her head in the mouth and dragged her towards the woods," Frank Frana said. "Somehow she was able to pull herself out."

FULL story and video at link.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/black-bear-mauls-florida-woman-drags-garage/story?id=23309124

[FreedRadical]

1. I am becoming a terrible person.

My first thought was, was she a republican.

[valerief]

13. Ha! Me, too. It's Florida, after all. nt

[Nye Bevan]

45. If that was really your first thought then yes, you are not a nice person.

Who the hell, when hearing about a person being grievously injured, first wonders about which party that person votes for? That's pretty twisted.

[FreedRadical]

47. Me...

However, I blame you. Or more specifically DU. Before coming here I would have had more empathy for that "stand your ground, we don't want your kind voting" state. Now I believe they would shoot me to save the bear. So yeah, fuck um. And yes, a twisted influence you.

[kimbutgar]

2. Too bad those bears didn't go to rush limbaugh's neighborhood

He would have been perfect lunch for those bears. A lot of fat to gnaw on.

[DBoon]

26. bears deserve better

nt

[kimbutgar]

30. Ha ha good comeback

[meadowlark5]

3. I wonder why she didn't shoot it and stand her ground nt

[aaaaaa5a]

9. She certainly would have gotten away with it. The bear was black. NT

[meadowlark5]

12. That's right!

[valerief]

14. DUzy! nt

[yuiyoshida]

16. This!

[flamingdem]

36. Defense: the Right to Bear Arms

[kelliekat44]

34. Because the bear was not a black teen. nt

[mbperrin]

4. News story is preposterous.

1. Children ride away on bicycles, no bear in sight on driveway.
2. Then, magically, a bear in the driveway, eating trash from the garage. Garbage just moved itself simultaneous with children leaving the structure and no one noticed.
3. Then, magically, she is transported to the patio where there are five bears, eating even more trash from her garage. How much trash do people there keep in their garage? Zero in mine.
4. While doing nothing, this woman is then transported adjacent to a bear which begins attacking her.

What actually happened? I can't tell, but she put herself into proximity to the bears, which anyone should know is a bad move.

Nothing more, but her own behavior got her hurt.

[HipChick]

5. So she is to blame?

[Orrex]

11. I think the poster is saying that it doesn't bear scrutiny

[mbperrin]

31. Exactly right.

I can't tell which end is up.

[flamingdem]

37. Yeah, where was the Maul Cop?

?

[OriginalGeek]

38. The story certainly gives me paws

[paleotn]

39. More than likely.....

...yes. In the majority of cases involving wildlife attacking humans, it's the human(s) doing something stupid that precipitates the attack.

[fasttense]

21. I was really confused by the story too.

Where exactly were all these (5?) bears and the garbage? In her garage, on her patio, in the driveway?

The story makes no sense. Did she approach the bears? Did the 5 bears catch her by surprise? And what does her children riding off to school have to do with anything?

Journalism has become a lost art.

[DBoon]

25. I bet there were only 3 bears involved

and that somewhere there was some porridge

[pangaia]

27. Ehhh.. you beat me to it....rats..

[iandhr]

6. Don't tell Colbert.

[Laffy Kat]

19. Bears are godless killing machines. nt

[2banon]

7. Who knew there are bears in Florida?

Gaters, check. Manatees, check. Snakes, check. But reading this about the bears surprised me.

[OnionPatch]

8. Sure, there's always been Black Bears in Florida

Their numbers have fluctuated over the years and they mostly live in wooded areas.

I'm taking a wild guess that the one that attacked was the mother of the others, which may have been yearling adolescents. Just a thought.

[2banon]

10. learn something new everyday.. :)

[Mojorabbit]

28. We have had a couple show up downtown Orlando

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-06/news/os-parramore-bear-20120506_1_bear-tranquilized-wildlife-officers-orlando-s-parramore

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. Hell yeah, there are bears in Florida.

A few months ago, I was driving in the Ocala forest and one darted across the road.

For everything that might be wrong with Florida, one thing is certain: we have freaking awesome wildlife beyond compare.

For instance, mountain lions that live in lowland swamps. You don't get any better than that.

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. She is lucky to be mostly okay...

I met a woman who had lost both arms to a grizzly bear. She worked with a group doing wilderness mapping and the hill she had been dropped off on happened to have a bear. It spent the next few hours chomping on her, till the helicopter returned.

She was struggling to adapt to a new life, as a mom, with no arms, but said she certainly would not be giving her child little stuffed teddy bears to play with. "They are wild animals, not cuddly friends"

[Chemisse]

29. Grizzlies are known to be prone to attack. Black bears are not.

Not unless, as someone suggested, she was a mama bear.

It might be wise to get the trash out of the garage.

[steve2470]

17. very scary story

I know that area well, and she must live in a pretty wooded area. Black bears are much more common to the north of her, along State Road 46, but I can see where they would be that far south also. Somehow I think this is not the first time bears have been reported in her area.

[steve2470]

18. Husband describes finding his bloodied wife after Seminole County bear attack

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-seminole-bear-attack-lake-mary-20140413,0,632151.story

As wildlife officials watched bear traps today, a man described finding his wife bloodied and crying after being attacked by a 200-pound bear last night.

Terri Frana, 44, was attacked in the garage of her Seminole County home and suffered bite marks to the head, arm and leg, and claw marks to her back, according to her husband, Frank Frana.

"She's traumatized and she's sore; it's like she got beat up," said Frana, 54. "In a week or so she'll be as good as new."

She had to have 30 staples and 10 stitches in the head, and came home from the hospital at about 1:30 a.m. Considering what she'd been through, her husband said, "she's incredibly OK. It's amazing."

video at link.

the family home in the gated Carisbrooke subdivision near Lake Mary

Carisbrooke is located off Markham Road at the intersection with Markham Woods Road, Carisbrooke is a gated 44 lot subdivision with homes ranging from $600,000 to over $1,000,000. Lots are a minimum of one acre and most are naturally wooded with many backing up to conservation area.

Carisbrooke is home Southern Living Magazine's custom building program. Convenient to Lake Mary and Heathrow business parks. Carisbrooke in built on a beautiful piece of land, carved out of the Wekiva River landscape. Carisbrooke offer lots of wildlife in this Lake Mary gated Community.

Carisbrooke is just steps from the trail head for the Seminole Wekiva Trail, Carisbrooke is the perfect location for an outdoor enthusiast - The Seminole County Soccer Fields & a new Equestrian Center are also just minutes away. Carisbrooke is five minutes from Colonial Town Park, it’s restaurants, shops and movie theater.

http://www.sterlingchaserealty.com/carisbrooke-lake-mary-fl-homes-for-sale/

Yep, like I thought, pretty wooded area.

[snooper2]

41. 200 lb bear? She could have taken it out...

go for the knees!

[Android3.14]

20. There is definitely something wrong with this story

Black bears rarely attack humans and almost always there is more to it than evil bears.

[darkangel218]

22. There are lots of black bears in Longwood.

They sometimes cross the streets, cars stop for them. It's a fact of life down here.
I'm glad this lady is okay. I just hope they won't hunt down and kill innocent bears in revenge, as they did last year.

[Kaleva]

23. Gentle Ben's evil twin brother I assume.

[Codeine]

24. reporter needs to go back to J-school for a refresher course.

What a terribly-written story. Yikes.

[mackerel]

32. No good news ever comes out of Florida.

[Brigid]

33. Yogi, how could you?

[AngryAmish]

40. We're here, we're queer, we dopn't want any more bears.

[Coventina]

42. So now every black bear in a 50 mile radius will be killed

because how are they going to ID that specific bear?

I'm sorry the woman got attacked, but there's no such thing as getting revenge on an animal.

[The Second Stone]

43. Ahab got revenge on Moby Dick

and that turned out well.

[happyslug]

44. A little more details:

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/woman-taken-hospital-after-possible-bear-attack/nfYnm/

Her 10-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son had just left the house Saturday night when she saw five bears scurry toward the garage, where the children had just been. She walked down the driveway to look for her children.

"One of the bears stood up, knocked her down, and started to maul her," Frank Frana said. "She has 30 staples in her head, 10 stitches in her head, lacerations, and claw marks on her back."
He said the bear had his wife’s head in her mouth and dragged her about 4 feet toward a wooded area.
He said she managed to escape from the bear's jaw, and then ran inside the house, where she collapsed.

[raccoon]

46. Gators and pythons and bears, oh my! nt