Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:52 pmTekania wrote:Wow, what a grizzly accident. But as they say in Maine, this is what happens when we panda to unsafe drivas.
It's really a black day.
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:52 pmPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:53 pmIt's really a black day.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:54 pmPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:55 pmThis incident was conceived on the seventh ring of word problem hell.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:01 pmWow. Their families must be getting swarmed with questions from news stations. I guess they'll just have to grin and bear it. 
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:02 pmTekania wrote:Wow, what a grizzly accident. But as they say in Maine, this is what happens when we panda to unsafe drivas.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:02 pm Off topic, please revert to OP. On that note, one beary bad accident indeed.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:03 pmJuNii wrote:Flying Bear kills 2 Canadians'Flying bear' kills 2 Canadians in freak crash
By Global Post
A “flying bear” killed two Canadians instantly when a freak car accident propelled the black bear through the front windshield of a second vehicle.
A car slammed into the black bear at night on a rural Quebec highway about 25 miles north of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, local police told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The 440-pound bear was thrown into the air and hit a SUV traveling in the opposite direction, smashing through the SUV’s front windshield and then out the back window.
The driver of the SUV, a 25-year-old Ottawa woman, was pronounced dead at the scene, as was a 40-year-old passenger sitting behind her. But the driver’s boyfriend, sitting in the front passenger seat, escaped with only minor injuries.
The two occupants of the first car that hit the bear were not hurt. The bear was killed on impact.
Police said that the car, a Pontiac Sunfire, was lower to the ground than the SUV and had a more aerodynamic design, and may have propelled the male bear up into the air and into the other lane, the CBC reports.
While deer and moose are regularly seen on roads in rural Canada, and collisions with cars are relatively common, it is unusual for bears to wander onto a highway.
"Obviously, it's something really rare," local police spokesman Martin Fournel said. "We don't see that often, even if we live in the country. Lots of deer, but collisions with a bear and two people died? That's really rare."
A local hunting guide told the CBC that it is bear mating season, and warned drivers to be careful because the males go roaming outside their territory to look for female bears in heat.
Ok, I got several questions... 1) how fast was that first car going to actually send a bear flying not just through the windshield, but out the back window as well. 2) I wonder what the insurance company processing that claim will say...
and 3) how many jokes can we get outta this.
That sounds like a perfect storm of freak occurrences that lead to the death of 2 people. The bear exiting out the back window was probably due to both the velocity given to the bear from the Sunfire and the velocity of the SUV.
It's just a shame it was a fatal accident. If everyone had lived, it would have made one hell of a story for casual conversation ("Big deal, you hit a deer. Once I hit a flying bear").
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:11 pm>expects British Columbia
>gets Ontario
Ontario what have we told you about bear experiments?
>gets Ontario
Ontario what have we told you about bear experiments?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:43 pmPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:48 pmRussia is obviously planning an invasion. Vladimir Putin has invented the bear cannon.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:51 pmthe only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:51 pmMalgrave wrote:Russia is obviously planning an invasion. Vladimir Putin has invented the bear cannon.
Why would Russia invade us? We wub our fellow socialists.
Sociobiology wrote:the only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
"Is that a flying be-"
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:52 pmSociobiology wrote:the only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
"Oh crap"? Probably stronger language than that.
I know someone who was in a car accident where his car ended up flipping over, and he was pretty lucky to survive. He fully admitted to "evacuating his bowels" during them accident.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:53 pmIf you don't dedicate your life to capturing bears, caging them, and fighting them to the death, this happens.
The laypeople think me insane, the animal right's activists think me a monster, but perhaps now that a brighter light has shone in my favor, they will all have second thoughts before they mock and villify me.
The laypeople think me insane, the animal right's activists think me a monster, but perhaps now that a brighter light has shone in my favor, they will all have second thoughts before they mock and villify me.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:53 pmI bearly believe this grizzly tragedy could happen so close.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:54 pmRhodmhire wrote:If you don't dedicate your life to capturing bears, caging them, and fighting them to the death, this happens.
The laypeople think me insane, the animal right's activists think me a monster, but perhaps now that a brighter light has shone in my favor, they will all have second thoughts before they mock and villify me.
These weren't bear trappers. What are you one about?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:54 pmSoviet Haaregrad wrote:I bearly believe this grizzly tragedy could happen so close.
Good thing it wasn't a grizzly
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:55 pm"Oh fuck, I bearly saw that coming."
If you're over 13 and have never heard the word fuck before...you have now.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:55 pmSociobiology wrote:the only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
"Is that a furry comet?"
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:57 pmOuroborosCobra wrote:These weren't bear trappers. What are you one about?
All that I am saying is that if the bear was in a stationary cage being fought instead of in a moving vehicle, this would not have happened.
Sociobiology wrote:the only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
I think you would be too busy laughing hysterically or screaming loudly, or a mixture of the two, to think clearly about anything.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:58 pmPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:59 pmSociobiology wrote:the only thing I want to know is what goes thru your mind when you see bear appearing to fly straight at your windshield.
In this case, I believe the bear was the last thing to go through their head.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:00 pmOuroborosCobra wrote:Nightkill the Emperor wrote:"Oh fuck, I bearly saw that coming."
If you're over 13 and have never heard the word fuck before...you have now.
I have, but we've been asked to keep this forum PG-13.
And...?
Fuck is used quite commonly here. It's more of 80s PG-13.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:03 pmHoly shit. This is unbearable to hear... What a truly grizzly end. Colbert was only half right. Bears are also the #1 threat to Canada too.