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    Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over the next few weekends BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.

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The intro to this clip is great.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhUJp-pO5lo"]Grizzly bear charges at Alaskan tourists (Video) - YouTube[/ame]
 

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If they ran the bear may have chased, your better off standing your ground or making yourself look as big as possible while yelling at it.
 
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If they ran the bear may have chased, your better off standing your ground or making yourself look as big as possible while yelling at it.
That's exactly true. If they had run, it would've been a much different video. Grizzly's have been clocked at 30mph over a short distance, catching a human no matter who they are wouldn't be an issue.
 
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If they ran the bear may have chased, your better off standing your ground or making yourself look as big as possible while yelling at it.
That's another humorous aspect of the video. I'm not convinced these people were aware that they shouldn't run... I think they just froze and got lucky :) But, hey, who knows?
 

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I don't see that as charging really. If you look where the video of the bear starts it seems like the bear is startled by something, runs a ways, then looks back. Doesn't really seem to mind the people that much. Though they were pretty close and if he wanted to they'd be easy pickin'.

Dan
 
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