PSA: When attacked by black bear, counter attack with zucchini

[BurtWorm]

:patriot:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/23/montana-woman-fends-off-b_n_736504.html

FRENCHTOWN, Mont. — A Montana woman fended off a charging bear on her back porch early Thursday by using the first weapon she could reach – a piece of zucchini.

The woman was stirred after midnight by a tussle in the backyard of her home near Frenchtown, Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli said. She went to investigate and found a 200-pound black bear attacking one of her two dogs, a 12-year-old collie.

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The bear took a swipe at her with its paw and tore her jeans. The woman jumped back and grasped the nearest object on her kitchen counter inside the doorway – a 12-inch-long zucchini she had harvested earlier from her garden.

She flung the zucchini at the bear from a distance she estimated to be 3 feet. The vegetable bopped the bruin on the top of its head and the animal fled, Maricelli said.

State wildlife officials were searching for the bear on Thursday. Radio station KGVO in Missoula first reported on the attack.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Frontier porn?

:shrug:

[Barack_America]

2. Actually a better product was just released to the market.

Bears are strongly repelled by bullshit and this product is sure to send them running!

[BurtWorm]

3. That's like flinging poo.

Not a bad suggestion at all!

[geckosfeet]

4. I say throw boner to the bear - save the paper for starting fires

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Just like Monty Python's "Self Defense Against Fruit".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

[tanyev]

6. Would that also work for a Mama Grizzly?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. A new use for all that damn zuchinni!

Last time my wife and I grew zuchinni, by the end of the season we were leaving it on peoples' doorsteps and car seats.