I like "Canada man" as a contrast to the familiar "Florida man." Canada man is strong and effective and a loyal husband.
Also, this story contrasts to the familiar bear-related advice: "If it's brown lay down, if it's black fight back, if it's white good night."
Alysa McCall, a scientist at Polar Bear International, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that polar bears rarely attack humans. When an attack occurs, the bear is often hungry, young and unwell, she said.... "If you're attacked by a polar bear, definitely do not play dead — that is a myth," she told CBC. "Fight as long as you can."
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The man didn’t win the fight, to be clear. A neighbor shot the bear several times, causing it to retreat. It was later found dead.
The lesson is carry a lethal weapon and use it if confronted by a polar bear.
…if it’s a grizzly, (fill in the blanks).
"Would you rather be stranded in the woods with a man or a bear?" I guess the confounding factor in this case was that it was a WHITE bear.
In New York you would be put on trial for attacking an innocent bear that wasn’t hurting anyone.
I have never heard any of the polar bear myths.
Begs the question, who would win a fight between Canada Man and Florida Man?
How about Canada Man and Da Bears?
Canada Man and Ditka?
A lethal weapon in Canada is becoming an endangered species.
"Canada man is strong and effective and a loyal husband." But he rolls over and submissively shows his belly at every inane Trudeau utterance.
He should have just handed it a Coke.
When you read the "calming" advice to carry bear spray for Canada or Alaska in a publication, translate that to "you must carry a gun at all times and know how to use it." There's a substantial market for specialized bear-defense products, as used by hunters, fishers, hikers, campers, and residents.
People must use these products every year.
The difference is that the Canada man we know is fighting the bear whereas the Florida man would be attempting to rape the bear.
If it’s a grizzly, do whatever, ‘cause nothing rhymes well with ‘grizzly’
Well, Alysa McCall may have all sorts of credentials and scholarly articles published in refereed journals, but what I understand is that polar bears are “the rare carnivore that has [human beings] on its menus.” So if polar bear attacks are rare, it has to be because the humans who live near them are vigilant and armed with high powered rifles.
Althouse used to link to a vlog by a woman who lives on Svalbard, an island north of the Artic Circle. Well, every adult on the island must not only own a shotgun or high powered rifle (.30-06 or more powerful) and demonstrate proficiency with it. Polar bears are the reason.
And back in 1987 an 11 year old boy named Juan Perez and two friends broke into the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, and for reasons no one understood decided to swim in the polar bear enclosure. They found the lower half of poor Juan in the stomachs of the two bears in the enclosure. Apparently Juan was attacked before the two kids who had been with him entered the bear enclosure of the polar bears would have had a feast.
That "Florida man" or "New Jersey man" trick/ruse is practiced by the lefty MSM so that they can avoid stating that the perpetrator is black or Muslim.
Canadian polar bears, xenophobic at the species level.
Polar bears are just white supremacists, prove me wrong.
Carry a weapon and make sure you choose your companions wisely: only befriend those “slow afoot”.
“If its brown lay down; if its black fight back; if its white good night.”
- Titus’s advice for glory holes.
JSM
Canada man gives us both the toughest NHL player of all time (the fearsome Bob Probert) as well as softer-than-Celine-Dion Justin Bieber. Canada is a weird place.
In the recent film "Red One" (a Christmas action-comedy involving Santa Claus), one of the best visual jokes is that Santa's North Pole bodyguards include an enormous, intelligent polar bear in combat gear.
Since Canada went the way of the UK and handguns are basically banned. Best you could do is lug around a shotgun or rifle (if the local authorities allow you to do that.) Long guns are heavy so few will do so. In Alaska, were guns are very much not banned, the Glock 20 10mm is the national sidearm (but me, being an old fart, still prefers the .44 magnum 4" Ruger Redhawk with appropriate Pachmayr grips!) Yes handguns are a weak reed but they can be on you when trouble arises.
Forget judo and karate.. that only works here.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU
If it’s cinnamon, teach it to juggle
An Alaskan guide used an old 9mm and expert shot placement (low recoil) for a successful bear defense just recently. See the 50 minute Ron Spomer interview below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANI6U-SL4o
Wear your hair frizzly?
Back in 2006 a Canadian First Nations mother named Lydia Angiyou attacked — with her bare hands! — a polar bear that had been stalking her 7 year old son and some playmates. She fought it long enough for a local hunter to grab his rifle and kill the beast. It isn’t just Canadian men who are tough.
Intoxicating masculinity places women and children, first.
I checked in with an old acquaintance, a former "lifer" in the army who at one point back in the late 1970s was assigned to Fort Greely in Alaska, not far from Fairbanks. I recalled that he and his wife were briefed on what to do if attacked by a bear and he confirmed that they were advised to play dead because there was a good chance that it was a sow with cubs. All they want to do is kill the thing (you) that might be threatening their cubs so if you can fake being dead while a bear is gnawing on you (doesn't sound easy!) then she might walk off and leave you bleeding, but alive.
And if the bear is a male?
Then it's planning to eat you and there's not much you can do about it.
Oh.
I guess Tim Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard would agree, that's if they hadn't been killed and eaten by a hungry Alaska brown bear back in 2003.
Since Polar Bears hibernate in the summer months and roam the far north in the winter when all game is scarce I would think that they are always hungry.
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