MontanaRifleman
Well-Known Member
In the video of the bear killing the man it took less than five seconds for the death blow to be delivered and even with two men blasting him with bear spray he continued long enough to ensure his victim was injured badly enough to ensure his death.
And that was a tame bear, not one protecting it's territory, not suffering from starvation or just waking up hungry in the spring. Just a tame bear who for a few seconds got carried away.
That is not what happened in the video. The attack was about 6 seconds in duration beigging at time stamp 4:39. At time stamp 4:41, the bear has the man on the ground and the trainer begins to hit the bear with a stick (which I suspect may have angered the bear more). At 4:43 the bear begins to violently shake the man and flip him around like a rag doll. At 4:45 the attendants begin to spray the bear. Approximately a half second later the bear breaks off the attack and retreats. That's what happened. The attendents were not blasting the bear for 5 seconds or anywhere near that. it took half a second of spray to run off the bear. The bear was a trained and still a wild animal. You can never take the wild out of a wild animal. For a short period of time it became extremely territorial. That was an extremely intense and vicious attack. I was read a lot of bear attack accounts and most them are not that intense. Most victims survive the attack and this bear killed the victim in 6 seconds.
Had the attendants starting spraying the bear when the attack began, I am as certain as I can be that the man would have survived. Why? Because the bear broke off the attack the instant it was hit with spray. Can't get much more effective than that.