bear attacks mtber!!!!!!

[Tumbleweed]

and the importance of wearing a helmet!!!!

from ap

ANCHORAGE - A 14-year-old girl riding in a mountain bike race was attacked in the dark of night by a bear Sunday and severely injured, but she was able to make a brief emergency cell phone call that eventually resulted in her rescue.

The girl suffered head, neck, torso and leg wounds. She underwent surgery and was in critical condition Sunday afternoon at Providence Alaska Medical Center?police said the girl was fortunate to be wearing a bike helmet because the bear had bitten her head.

Bear mauls teen during 24-hour bike race in Alaska

 

[Hog_]

Wow....

 

Guess helmets do save lives!

 

 

 

[Tumbleweed]

and always carry a cellphone on a ride?

holy roller2008-06-30 23:20:25

[bobbie]

what a story.. dont know if I would let my 14year old daughter ride a race like that on her own in the night but hey..thank goodness she had her cellphone and her helmet as you say..

If you can, please keep us updated HR

[Tumbleweed]

bobster, have put it on a googlenewsalert.

[bobbie]

bobster' date=' have put it on a googlenewsalert.[/quote']

 

thanks HR -  you know me..

 its that "kid" thing - just gets a little too close to home sometimes..

 

 

[mbaymike]

damn.....hope the girl survives.  That must be one hellish experience.  

[Saffa_G]

wow, thats a hectic one.....quite a scare..hope she survives .... eish 

[MintSauce]

Read about that yesterday. Hectic for sure.

 

Talk about timing with that other rider passing just as the phone rang. You might think that it's a race and somebody else would've heard. However, 60 people turning up at a 24hr race is a small field. Even with 220 riders that we've seen at races in the Cape, it gets so quiet at night between 1-5am that at times there'll be several minutes gap between riders. It very likely that noone would've heard it.

 

It's funny that we never even give something like this a thought around here in Darkest Africa. It seems to be more of an issue in the US and Canada.

 

Last year just before I went over, as in two weeks before I left, I read a news article reporting that a rider had been chased by a cougar down the trail at the top of the 'MUST do' list of trails that SARA gave me....greeeeaaat!

 

 

 

[Tumbleweed]

minty, that cougar story - was it one in california?

[MintSauce]

 

 

No....I know specifically of two incidents in California. 1st one a solo male rider was actually killed. In another, two woman were attacked. The one that got mauled survived when the other woman pulled her unconscious body away from the cougar as it was getting ready for lunch.

 

This was in Whistler. This cougar was shot about a week after the rider had been chased. It was seen stalking golfers on a course on the edge of town and authorities were called in and shot it.

 

The reason for it getting that close to town was apparently that they'd had a very heavy snow season resulting in a shortage of food for the cougars and bears due to the snow taking longer to melt. As a result they weren't staying higher up the mountains as is normal.

 

 

 

 

MintSauce2008-07-01 00:01:44

[Tumbleweed]

those are the ones i'm thinking of. remember seeing pics at the time of the attacks. frightening.

[ewep]

 

 

No....I know specifically of two incidents in California. 1st one a solo male rider was actually killed. In another' date=' two woman were attacked. The one that got mauled survived when the other woman pulled her unconscious body away from the cougar as it was getting ready for lunch.

 

This was in Whistler. This cougar was shot about a week after the rider had been chased. It was seen stalking golfers on a course on the edge of town and authorities were called in and shot it.

 

The reason for it getting that close to town was apparently that they'd had a very heavy snow season resulting in a shortage of food for the cougars and bears due to the snow taking longer to melt. As a result they weren't staying higher up the mountains as is normal.

 

 

 

 

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That sounds like playing moer-en-soek (that's what I do on a golf course) in Phalaborwa.  While playing our caddies told us to get in the little car and go, quick quick.  Nice proud of lions had just walked onto the green we were gonna tee off to.  At least the 19th was VERY safe.

 

[Tumbleweed]

No....I know specifically of two incidents in California. 1st one a solo male rider was actually killed. In another' date=' two woman were attacked. The one that got mauled survived when the other woman pulled her unconscious body away from the cougar as it was getting ready for lunch.

This was in Whistler. This cougar was shot about a week after the rider had been chased. It was seen stalking golfers on a course on the edge of town and authorities were called in and shot it.

The reason for it getting that close to town was apparently that they'd had a very heavy snow season resulting in a shortage of food for the cougars and bears due to the snow taking longer to melt. As a result they weren't staying higher up the mountains as is normal.



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That sounds like playing moer-en-soek (that's what I do on a golf course) in Phalaborwa.  While playing our caddies told us to get in the little car and go, quick quick.  Nice proud of lions had just walked onto the green we were gonna tee off to.  At least the 19th was VERY safe.

 

 

jissie, you are a dutchman. it's "pride" of lions, not "proud" of lions. and what are you going on about, the most dangerous wildlife to come across while riding is ewep!

[ewep]

Thanks for the nice help HR.  That's the diff between us DUTCHmen and you souties.  When you f up our language, we help you. But you just laugh at us!

 

Mate, those lions scared the living crap out of me.  My Titleist golf balletjie is porbably still there , some way off the fairway!

 

[Tumbleweed]

Thanks for the nice help HR.  That's the diff between us DUTCHmen and you souties.  When you f up our language' date=' we help you. But you just laugh at us!

Mate, those lions scared the living crap out of me.  My Titleist golf balletjie is porbably still there , some way off the fairway!
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that's ok, i kinda feel sorry for you. the difference is that your language is kinda screwed up to start with. i mean: een ding, een word? what's that all about?