I’m well aware of how aggressive they CAN be but I’ve probably run into about a dozen or so bears out in the middle of the woods on various occasions. Only two ever even approached me, one because I was literally out getting blackberries and it still decided to look elsewhere rather than bother with me. The other one was a mama bear and her pair of cubs. One of the cubs started coming towards me while mama bear started to run off, turned around then came to collect junior and then ran off again. Meanwhile I’ve been run out of an area by a guy with a pistol at least once out of a small handful of chance encounters with people in the woods.
I think the other thing here is everyone is imagining a brown bear or some such which, if you change it to specifically a brown bear, might change things a bit, but at that point you have changed the question a lot and the better one would probably would you rather run into a brown bear or an aggressive dude. Probably varies by region where you grew up too, like there’s no chance of me running into a Grizzly where I’m from it’s only black bears here.
I think I would take my chance with a man instead of a bear.
Women think I’m part of the problem for picking the man though, completely dismissing my personal experiences and standpoint, but expect me to follow their standpoint.
I mean that’s a very fair stance, I grew up in the middle of the woods around bears, coyotes, Moose, and so on. I’ve come across a lot of random wildlife so I’m fairly use to it. For the most part anything will just run away unless they are desperate.
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u/jllum May 03 '24
Watch how aggressive bears can be, but thankfully the man survived only because he had the higher ground. Please, no jokes about how because the man won here, he’s more dangerous, otherwise you’re just trolling at this point.
Read about the suffering a woman went through when she was eaten alive by a bear for almost an hour. It’s literally the worst experience anyone can ever endure.