80-Year-Old Man Survives Getting Thrown off Cliff by Bear He Head-butted.

[ashling]

November 1, 2013 |

Yusuf Alchagirov is lucky to be alive after a hungry bear attacked the octogenarian in the southern Russian region of Kabardino-Balkaria, The Guardian reported.

Alchagirov was herding sheep in a raspberry field when confronted with the irate, hungry bear. When the beast picked him off the ground, the agile 80-year-old made the decision to fight back and began kicking and head-butting the animal. The enraged bear then dropped Alchagirov before sending him flying off a cliff, U.K. Metro reported.

Miraculously Alchagirov lived to tell the tale. When he failed to return from sheep-herding, relatives and neighbors began to search for him. He woke up in hospital seven hours later with bruises, bite wounds and four broken ribs.


http://www.alternet.org/world/80-year-old-man-survives-getting-thrown-cliff-bear-he-head-butted

Cue picture of shirtless Putin wrestling Russian Bear in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ....

[Enrique]

1. in southern Russia

bear throws you.

[Scootaloo]

2. Some stories provoke an "only in..." response

Only in two places would you get a story like this - Russia and Afghanistan... and in Afghanistan, the shepherd would have won.

[Octafish]

3. Dersu!

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0071411/