r/interestingasfuck • u/SnackSamurai • 2d ago

Women stand still to escape from a bear

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u/Azagar_Omiras 2d ago

This is correct.

People have been told to play dead but that only works for brown bears. If its a black bear, be big, loud, scary and fight if you need to.

If it's a grizzly or other brown bear, drop and play dead, extra points if you shit yourself.

If it's a polar bear, go ahead and shit your pants and get ready to be eaten because that son of a bitch has probably been stalking you for miles and won't stop until you can get some kind of substantial structure between you and it.

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u/Breaking_My_Brain 2d ago

Polar bears straight up are the bears of nightmares

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u/logicalegend 2d ago

It’s cuz they are starved out bears not cold hearted monsters.

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u/Uddiya 2d ago

Nightbears

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u/Azagar_Omiras 2d ago

They're some real nightbear fuel.

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u/usrname88 2d ago

You don't play dead with brown bears unless you know for sure it's cub defending or protecting a carcass. If it's predatory you absolutely should fight back. You should fight back against polar bears too, there's a few stories of people surviving.

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u/Logical-Database4510 2d ago

Not to mention you'll want to go down swinging because bears, unlike other large predators like Big Cats, don't kill their prey immediately. They'll sit on you, crushing your spine then eat you alive.

Better to attack and get your head taken off with a swing of its monster ass claws than to slowly be brutally eaten to death over the course of a few hours or more.

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u/lyinggrump 2d ago

You don't know anything about bears. Stop just repeating what you've read on Reddit.

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u/Zealousideal_Meat297 2d ago

Roald Amundsen first dude to the South Pole, was attacked by a Polar bear and lived.

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u/Lord_Origi 2d ago

That's a fucking well travelled polar bear

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u/Upbeat_Aside_9203 2d ago

It tracked him from the Arctic, OBVIOUSLY!

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u/TraditionalYam4500 2d ago

not on the south pole he wasn't

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u/Zealousideal_Meat297 2d ago

He was attacked in the North at a later time in a different expedition.

During the Maud expedition in the Arctic, Amundsen was mauled and nearly killed by a fully grown polar bear. He was saved at the last minute because his thick winter fur and leather clothing prevented the bear's claws from inflicting fatal wounds, though he was left with a sprained wrist and claw wounds on his backside.

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u/EarBubbly9421 2d ago

Instructions unclear. If alive play dead and If dead, play alive. Right?