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Subscribe to RSSOuch! A woman walking her dog near an apartment complex in Longwood, Fla., early Friday morning was bitten in the rear end by a bear.
A wildlife official told the Orlando Sentinel that the woman was taken to a nearby hospital after the incident, which took place northeast of Orlando, the home of Disney World.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill said the attack happened at about 7 a.m.
The woman was taken to Florida Hospital-Altamonte in Altamonte Springs with four puncture wounds, the paper reported.
According to the Sentinel, the woman was disposing of her dog's waste into the apartment complex's trash container when she turned around, saw the bear and stumbled to the ground. She was then attacked.
The bear may have been spooked by the woman's large dog, an Akita Shepherd mix, Hill said.
Traps set
Hill told the Sentinel that officers are setting traps for the bear, which will be euthanized if it is caught.
Florida black bears, which are a sub-species, are listed by the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as being a threatened animal. However, they have surged in numbers in recent decades, the paper reported, rebounding from about 300 to about 3,000, and the commission has proposed taking the species off the list.
Mike Orlando, who works for the wildlife agency, told the Sentinel that bear sightings are not uncommon in the area, which is near a state park, but that attacks are rare.
A resident of the complex, Arlene Friedlander, 79, told the paper that she often sees bears near the apartments. "I'm not afraid of them," she said.
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Maybe the bear needed a piece of a--
Shame on you for saying what most are thinking.
Was she in season is the question ?
Is she sure it was a bear? and not 'a bear of a man'?
I do not understand why they would euthanize the bear if they catch it. They should just relocated it to a more rural area or at worst, put it in a zoo. There is absolutely no reason to kill this animal.
This story itself is a little strange. I do not understand why a bear would come up and bite a woman on the ass and then just run off. For the bear to bite and just leave four punctures does not sound like any bear attack I have heard of. Something on this woman's clothes must have tasted terrible to the bear for it to let go without even biting down all the way and taking a chunk out of her rear. I wonder if there were any witnesses and if they know for certain the puncture wounds on this woman's rear end were caused by a bear bite.
Applauding you for saying what most were thinking!
Kinky bear!
Pervert bear...could be a Canadian Pimp bear, they got a thing for good lookin rear-ends
hope he's charged with sexual assault and then runs for political office.
The woman was walking a dog. The bear is likely a female with cubs, just being defensive because of the dog.
This bear, if that's what it is, has shown a propensity for attacking humans. That's why it has to be put down.
He couldn't bear to leave her behind.
Bear1: mmmmmm, I could go for some a.......
Bear2. oh look at that piece of a......
Minutes after
Bear2: how'd it go....
Bear1: that was one hella peice of a.......
She must have misunderstood when the bear said, "I'm gonna tear that ass up."
AG99, maybe the bear didn't know it was attacking a human. Maybe it thought it was attacking two puppies wrestling under a blanket.
She should have grinned and beared it.
Normally, it probably wouldn't just run off, but it sounds like her dog probably had something to do with it:
Even a bear is likely to think twice about taking on an Akita-Shepherd mix; not that it couldn't, but I'd imagine there's probably easier prey . . . like a poodle or something ;-)
Yogi bear was lonely. Either that or he thought it was a picnic basket.
Right BOO BOO?
That's what happens when you take away the right to arm bears. They start biting.
JD to some degree it has to do with over population. the areas that is set aside for bears might not be enough to reasonable support that kind of bear population. and then there is liability, what if the bear likes the taste of the nibble and goes back for a feast?
So do you suggest depopulating people or bears?
Sharks yesterday, bears today. I sit here wondering what tomorrow will bring?
Meanwhile, Andy Dick has been missing but was spotted in Florida buying a bear costume.
I think making sure there is a balance between have them in the environment and making sure that there numbers don't get to large for the environment that they have to roam, but making sure if large enough to support the population diversity. I think we have to have more connectivity of wildlife environments to allow for strong diverse numbers of animals with certain edges being used for hunting and recreations and timber management. It is hard to have strong diverse wildlife if habitat is reduced to islands.
I think our own carrying capacity needs to be in question. Though i am not for depopulation via war and genocides. just away to compassionately bring our numbers down.
Ouch, is right! OMG that must hurt! Perhaps a bear bite on the tush will become the new tattoo? It'll be like a Samuel Adams commercial, you can make up the tall tale as you go long ... for those lucky few that get to see it!
How em bear ass ing.
Where are the pictures?
yesturday sharks, today bears, tomorrow Hamsters...beware the deadly hamsters.
The bear was just 'playing' with her. If he was serious he would have killed her and her dog. The bear should not be euthanized.
I always said that "Bears are just a pain in the Ass".
Was it her ex- in a bear suit? just kidding, naughty me.
Hope she's recovered now.
The bear was simply trying to remove an invasive species from its native habitat! Maybe we as people need to think about getting out of the way of nature instead of bending nature to us.
They probably had someone that could only speak spanish explain to the bear it was not allowed to bite peaple and the poor bear only knows english.
The religious-right-wind-a-ding-a-lings want to know if it was a male or female bear. If it was a female bear, torches and pitchforks are a must, if it was a male bear, then blame the woman for wearing skimpy, tight shorts and turning on the bear.
Maybe the bear was confusing her buns as cinnamon buns and wanted a quick snack.
Naughty bear. That wasn't Goldilocks.
Sometimes things just bite you in the ass.....
I didn't know that bears also retire in Florida?
Perhaps it was looking for cheap rent?
Soon we will be able to hunt bear. I'm tired of hunting wild pigs, gators, and spearfishing big fish. Can't wait to blow a big ole hole in the head of one these killer bears. Yay!
Her dog bit her. She doesn't want it classified as a vicious dog, so she blamed an imaginary bear.
The bear was named Karma, and karma has a way to turn around and bite yo in the azz. Ouch!
I'm JS on this, I'm sure the bear were here long before us .....
Depends.... the dumb ones, yes.
UncleBen,
funny, I was thinking the same.
Too bad the bear will have to suffer for it when he's caught. Stupid humans.
We have the next victim.
That wasn't a bear folks... just another wild animal. Although i'm not unwilling to shave if they're serious about the euthanization thing.
Sometimes you get the bear.
Sometimes the bear gets you.
Its a good day if you're able to move on and laugh about it once the pain is gone.
Since the dog walker was responsibly disposing of waste in the dumpster, I'd say that the bite had more to do with "this is my dumpster" than actually viewing her as a prey animal. The dog undoubtedly saved her from further damage. I can understand the need to relocate or remove this bear, but they won't solve the problem until they start using bear resistant dumpsters.
Stephen Colbert has been warning us this very thing happening, marauding bears. They are on his most dangerous list. Seriously glad she escaped, and wasn't killed!
Colbert was so serious, he even put the bears "ON NOTICE". Again, though, I hope the woman has a complete recovery. :-)
A good place to go for life and death advice. And forget those comments about sparing the bear. You or even worse I can be next. I'm surrounded by houses (not woods) plus a K-3 school and we had to get the authorities to remove a 700 pound bear from the front yard. The real problem? Some think they're cute and feed the pesky things and challenge you when you tell them such behavior is a bad idea.
No, the real problem is people moving into the bears' habitat and not learning how to live with them. But just like with everything else in the natural world, most people think they are superior and more important, and that is just plain arrogance. Decimate the alligator population so your poodles can play in the back yard by the river, create a competitive and devastating feral python population, if left unchecked, the only creatures remaining will be mosquitoes and flies. Enjoy! If you don't like wildlife, don't move somewhere that still has it.
@sampson....sorry,you can not live with wild animals.eventually they will kill someone.they are wild.the grizzly man thought just like you !!so did steve erwin.of course the grizzy man survived living in bear country a few years,before he was eaten alive !!
Run, Bear, RUN.....and get well hidden!
He should arm himself. An animal is only an animal. It is not his fault.
Why on God's green Earth is the solution always to euthanize these animals??? They have nowhere left to go, now that the greedy, slimeball humans have taken all their land away from them. "Let's just kill our planet" seems to be the motto of the day. It makes me sick.
A View From the Nest
Because once they get a taste of people they are addicted. You might have a different view if you were staring up at a bear about to rip you to shreds. Feel free to convince the bear to enter a trap and YOU pay for it's rehab and relocation.
Greedy slime ball humans?? Are you of a different species? However, It would be more to my liking if there were an alternative to killing the bear.
Just what the world needs - another pompous misanthrope whose hatred of humanity is exceeded only by their love of themselves. Please stay sick. It amuses me.
And where is it that you live that you didn't take some poor, mistreated animal's space? You need to immediately bulldoze your house and plant trees for the animals.
Trust_Verify
Obviously he did not like the taste of her butt or he would have mauled her much worse; or killed the dog. Maybe her butt looked like a big old ham or she smelled like fresh cooked food. People are warned to not stand down wind when cooking in bear country (although I am assuming that she was not in the woods). He should not be euthanized, just relocated if he attacked in a city area. If not, the woman needs to just be more careful
They will euthanize the animal based on the knowledge that next time the bear confronts a human he might not be satisfied with just a piece of ass.
"Because once they get a taste of people they are addicted."
Didn't you mean, once they get a tast of a...s. they are addicted.
I noticed that you didn't volunteer to euthanize yourself and let the bear have your property. I guess that particular sacrifice is up to someone else.
He took one bite, spit it out and thought, "Christ! That is the @!$%#tiest thing I have ever tasted"
poopiest?
In his circle it's glitzy and trendy to say such rot. Let him take a walk in some of the developments around where I live, especially after dark and see what he has to say then. People get hurt, scared and killed by these creatures. Other lightweight morons up here feed the d**n things.
Because humans taste good (tender and well fed). When animals figure that out, it's not a good thing for us.
Wonder if the dog bit the bear in the ass while the bear was...
I agree - why do we always kill? Why can't it be relocated far away from humans.
Of course with 7 billion of us I suppose it's getting harder and harder to find places where there aren't any humans...
Sad state of affairs.
The dog did it and framed the bear !!! When she stumbled & the bear was near, it was a perfect set-up.
And then bribed the lady with a bag of Doritos. woo hoo
View,
You have obviuosly never been to central Florida. You can drive for 75 miles on the FL Turnpike and see nothing but wilderness. Dumbass bear should have stayed put.
Kiddo,
"Of course with 7 billion of us I suppose it's getting harder and harder to find places where there aren't any humans..."
You should probably kill yourself then. This bear could live in your house. I bet you voted for Obama too.
Liberals. God love em! LOL!
Dat's some tasty ass!
Attention Clint Howard, Gentle Ben got loose again.
Maybe she was carrying a pik a nik basket... Did this bear have a little friend trying to talk it out of this caper?
Don't think so, just seems she may have been in heat, the smell made the bear go crazy for a piece of a......
MSNBC - she was bitten on her butt, not bitten in her butt. Unless this bear was unusual in that it had a very long, slender, lubricated snout that would make that possible. Details?
it didn't say in her "butt", it said in her "rear end". If you bump another car while driving, it would be "in" the rear, not or "on" the rear. But I guess either word will work.
Bear bites woman in butt as she walks dog -- in Fla
Chris is correct. On MSNBC's first page it says....SEE ABOVE
Maybe it shoulda said "in buttocks area." However, as I am not an English Major, it made sense to me anyway.
This was written by the MSNBC Staff writers. Quality writing has never been a priority for that group. A flashy headline that gets clicks and generates ad revenue is all that matters.
Ohhhhh Boy,
This one really made my morning!
How about calling the bear " Chewbuttocks" ?
The poor bear is going to pay the price for being " An Insolent and Naughty Arse Chewing bad boy "
I'm just wondering what kind of gas explosion made the bear run off?
mheyize, lmao, I thought the same thing.
How about Chewcaca?
could it be that she was wearing some of that god awful perfume i smell in the grocery stores that brings tears to your eyes and makes you run for the door short of breath, that saved her life?
baldeagle, naw it was what she had for breakfast, bears have one of the best sense of smell, and the fumes she tooted was just too much for the bear to take. Hence only one bite.
Why do they have to kill it? Tranquilize the critter and relocate it to an ever-diminishing remote area. Heck, ship it to Jellystone Park.
Ship it to DC. More than enough asses to go around.
dman1115 why is it you city people simply want to relocate your problems to the country?
A needle is cheaper. Sorry Yogi.
I have never known a dog that would not have gotten involved in such an incident itself. Must have been a miniature that the woman scooped up and ran with.
Well, the story doesn't mention why the bear left after the attack after inflicting one bite, so I assumed the dog drove it off.
Even if the do trap "a" bear, how are they going to know for sure that it's the bear that bit her?????
Smell it's breath. If it smells like ass, that's the culprit.
omg, that's hysterical
WTG ralf. Kudos.
he's probably at the local bar drinking 13 martinis trying to get the taste out of his mouth!!!!!
thanks for the laughs ralf and baldeagle. didn't the article say she was 79? maybe the bear was looking for FRESH meat!
That's over near the Wekiva Springs park area, LOTS of bears around there. Even if they trap one I'm not sure how they would distinguish it from any other bear in that area. Maybe they will try to match up the bite marks.
Like one poster stated, it will be easy to find the bear, it's breath is gonna smell like arse.
Maybe the bear thought she was abusing the dog with the leash? ;-) Animals look out for each other, as opposed to a lot of us humans.
Now you are starting to think like an animal....
Why the heck would they euthanize an endangered Florida black bear? Last I heard, you could get ticketed if you even interfered with an "endangered" alligator, even if it was endangering a person, let alone kill one. But they will kill a bear just because he takes a bite out of a woman's butt. The bear was probably just upset that she was running around in his home with an annoying dog, and wanted them gone.
Well, apparently, the last you heard about this was 1987, as that's when the alligator was taken off the endangered species list. One can hunt them now.
Personally, I would have accepted a ticket (if one would even get one) in order to protect someone being attacked by an alligator--the tickets were to make sure that people aren't making up stories and just killing for the hide.
The American crocodile is still considered "threatened," but it is protected from illegal harassing, poaching or killing. The key word there is "illegal"--I doubt that a person who could demonstrate that an individual's life was endangered would be considered to be engaging in illegal activity unless the danger wasn't imminent.
As a follow on to your well made point beanathome: the American (Florida) Crocodile is found primarly in Everglades National Park. I am quite sure those Federal Rangers take a dim view of hunting in their (our) park.
ACL,
I am quite sure those Federal Rangers take a dim view of hunting in their (our) park
And I;m quite sure you would be wrong. We regularily hunt in the Everglades.
Last time I lived there (2006), a man roped an alligator crossing the street towards a woman with two children, and received a ticket. It is illegal to interfere in any way with an alligator, and whoever thinks alligators are only in the everglades has probably never lived there. I almost hit an alligator once while driving, and when I called the Sheriff's to let them know someone was going to hit the gator, they said there was nothing they could do. They did send someone out to make sure he got across the four lane highway safely, but they would do nothing to interfere with the gator, as it was against the law. The only time they will kill a gator is if it has killed a dog or child. They do allow hunting by special permit. I knew a guy who shot a 100 year old gator that was over 16 feet long.
That gal needs a BIGGER dog.
Sorry this all sounds a "little fishey" to me. Dog was never mentioned about being involved with the Bear, Bear bites one time and leaves (unusual).
I agree with most people here why euthanize the bear? I understand that once they attack and get a taste of humans that they are more apt to do it again - but would you call this an attack, most any animal would have continued attacking till death of one or the other. Not the case here. Leave the animal alone.
SO many questions, and so few answers -- it is very hard to conceive of a situation in which a wild bear approached this woman, inflicted one bite (assuming, based on four puncture wounds reported) on the rear and then apparently just walked away????? This story just doesn't doesn't make much sense based on what is being released thus far...........
I can't help but wonder if anyone else saw this "bear".
Not so hard to conceive. Just go to any bar or club in America, you will see plenty of situation in which a wild animal approaches a women, inflect a couple of bites and walk away.
She fell down--that was probably what provoked the predator response (bears are predators). The dog apparently came up and acted aggressive, and the bear (perhaps not being terribly hungry) just left.
A hungry or enraged bear would have stuck around; a bear that wasn't all that hungry, though, would be willing to just leave the prey and go look for something else.
But, yeah, falling down wasn't her best option.
Maybe the bear thought she was abusing the dog with the leash?
The bear was probably just upset that she was running around in his home with an annoying dog, and wanted them gone.
Bear psychologists?
Is it possible that the bear bit a bare hiney?
WTF? Why? Why catch a 'threatened' species alive to then kill it? Why not relocate the bear? Hell, it's a threatened species of bear so we are going to further endanger the population that is left by euthanizing one of them, because it bit someone in the ass? Sounds like Fish and Wildlife need a good bite in the ass.
I hope they never catch this bear.
And I hope it bites YOU in the azz.
Poor bear suffered enough. It's probably behind a tree puking its guts out!
Well, a little less "junk in the trunk" now.
Those bears really need to watch the saturated fat intake.
This just shows how pathetic and illogical the Fish and Wildlife service actually is. Florida is already a killing ground for many of the larger species that originally ran free. Hey, let's kill the Cougar who ran through our yard because we built our house on land that was it's hunting territory. Let's kill the bear even though it's on the threatened list. Why, so that we can look like we're responsible 'policemen' of the general welfare of the public. The same public that is destroying the biosphere of South Florida.
How nice it would be if all 'doozed their places to the ground and moved out leaving just little old you.
Charles.....I have proof of purchase for my home and the land it is on........let these animals do the same!
They just want to lay around and eat and bite people in the azz.
Charles.....And the woman was a cougar...........
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The bear is probably rabid if it just came up and bit her like that.
Bear-faced cheek, I suppose.
Did the police ask her for the Bear facts?
Did she grin and Bear it?
Oh so many this is un-bearable!
Maybe he was attracted to the sticky buns under her dress!