O Canada! Our home and native land!

[someone447]

For the first time in my life, I wish I was Canadian. Not because Canada is cool or anything, but maybe, just maybe this guys manliness would rub off on me by virtue of being from the same country.

BC Man Kills Bear with a Stick (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/10/08/bc-bear-attack-survivor.html?ref=rss)

[Shane P. Hallam]

I wish I was in Canada because of Reading Weekend. Oh wait, I already get off of school for Reading Weekend.

[CJSchneider]

I wish I was Canada because of Reading Weekend. Oh wait, I already get off of school for Reading Weekend.

I wish I was Canada because then I'd be my own country and I could do whatever I wanted.

[MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)]

I wish I was Canadian because I could go for a half hour drive and end up in a province where beer is half as expensive and I can get it at age 18. Oh, wait I am Canadian :D

[Shane P. Hallam]

I wish I was Canadian because I could go for a half hour drive and end up in a province where beer is half as expensive and I can get it at age 18. Oh, wait I am Canadian :D

Is your last name Baines?

[CJSchneider]

Too many people named Chris around here.

[MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)]

Is your last name Baines?

Well every Canadian's last name is Baines. There are 30 million Baineses.

[Shane P. Hallam]

Well every Canadian's last name is Baines. There are 30 million Baineses.



That's what I figured. I have never met a Canadian not named Baines.

[CJSchneider]

Pat Sajak and Larry Walker being the exceptions.

[Shane P. Hallam]

Nah, that is just their maiden names.

[MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)]

Pat Sajak and Larry Walker being the exceptions.

Actually to avoid confusion we just go by our middle names. So it's Larry Walker Baines, Alex Trebek Baines, and if Pat Sajak is actually Pat Sajak Baines, which I'm thinking you might have mixed up with Trebek(because I've never heard he is Canadian), then we are invading the game show industry. MANIFEST DESTINY FTW.

Also, some people have the middle name of Baines. So they're just called Baines instead of Baines Baines, which would just confuse everyone.

[TitleTown088]

Canada's fishing pleases me. Nice walleye.

[someone447]

DID NO ONE READ THE STORY!?!?!?!? THIS GUY KILLED A BEAR WITH A ******* STICK!!!

How is this not already at 50 pages?

ONE MAN, KILLED ONE BEAR, WITH A ******* STICK!!! A STICK!!! A STICK AND NOTHING ELSE!!!

Let's get back on topic and discuss how ******* awesome this guy is.

[themaninblack]

These giant, marauding godless killing machines are not the #1 threat in Canada.

[hobbes2053]

Tha guy deserves a ******* medal... Like the Nobel prize or a Purple Heart or something because that is straight awesome. I want to shake that guy's hand.

[someone447]

These Godless Killing Machines are not the #1 threat in Canada.

Obviously not if a Canadian with a stick can kill them. Jim West is the most manly man in the world. He would kick Chuck Norris' ass, no doubt about it.

[hobbes2053]

Jim West just made Chuck Norris look like a schoolboy *****.

[CashmoneyDrew]

While I can't fault the guy for defending himself at all, the story is still kind of sad because of the bear cubs being euthanized. Glad the guy's ok though, don't get me wrong.

[hobbes2053]

While I can't fault the guy for defending himself at all, the story is still kind of sad because of the bear cubs being euthanized. Glad the guy's ok though, don't get me wrong.

Not to be disrespectful, but that might make him even more badass. He killed 3 bears with one stick. That's just ridiculous.

All that being said, I do feel sorry for the little bears.

[619]

Don't mess with us Canadians ! :D

[CashmoneyDrew]

Not to be disrespectful, but that might make him even more badass. He killed 3 bears with one stick. That's just ridiculous.

All that being said, I do feel sorry for the little bears.

Maybe instead of saying kill two birds with one stone the new saying will be kill three bears with one stick. :/

[TitleTown088]

DID NO ONE READ THE STORY!?!?!?!? THIS GUY KILLED A BEAR WITH A ******* STICK!!!

How is this not already at 50 pages?

ONE MAN, KILLED ONE BEAR, WITH A ******* STICK!!! A STICK!!! A STICK AND NOTHING ELSE!!!

Let's get back on topic and discuss how ******* awesome this guy is.
Big deal. Anthony Hopkins and Baldwin did it back in '97

[Staubach12]

On one hand, poor little bears. :(

On the other hand, HOW B.A.!!!!!!!!!

[Chucky]

The only man who compares to him is the almighty

Les Stroud( another Canadian)

[someone447]

The only man who compares to him is the almighty

Les Stroud( another Canadian)

Dude, Les Stroud has nothing on this guy. There is only one man in all of history to top what this guy did, and that is "Fightin'" Jack Churchill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

Leading from the front, Churchill infiltrated the town with only a corporal in support. He kidnapped a sentry and forced him to make his comrades surrender. Churchill and the riflemen walked out of town with 42 prisoners and a mortar squad...In September 1944, he and an RAF officer crawled under the wire through an abandoned drain and set out to walk to the Baltic coast; they were recaptured near the coastal city of Rostock, only a few miles from the sea. In time, they were moved to a camp at Niederdorf, Austria.

He escaped from Niederdorf in April 1945 and walked 150 miles to Verona, Italy where he met an American armoured column.

Jim West and Jack Churchill, the two hardest mother******s to ever walk this earth.

[Twiddler]

The only man who compares to him is the almighty

Les Stroud( another Canadian)

I'm glad that Les got brought into this discussion. He's the man.

[CashmoneyDrew]

That guy who was stuck on a mountain and had to cut his on arm off to survive was one badass mofo as well. His name slips my mind.

[steelersfan43]

poor little bears :(

And yea that guy that cut off his arm is rediculous, that would be so hard to do to yourself.

[someone447]

That guy who was stuck on a mountain and had to cut his on arm off to survive was one badass mofo as well. His name slips my mind.

Aron Ralston, and I amend my last post:
Aron Ralston, Jim West, and Jack Churchill the most badass mother******s of all time.

With Genghis Khan as honorable mention, after all it is estimated that almost 1% of people(between 40-80 million people) in the entire world are descendants of him in some way.

[hobbes2053]

I think a super BA part of the bear slayer story that is overlooked is the fact that the bear had already mauled him (back of head, left side of torso) before he fought back with the stick. That can only add to his badassness.

This guy can also be added to the "people not to **** with, ever" list.
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/06/29/man-kills-leopard-with-bare-hands/

[Brent]

where were the dogs in all this? not protecting their master, I see.

[MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)]

I bet it was a hockey stick. We're ****** dangerous with hockey sticks.

[themaninblack]

where were the dogs in all this? not protecting their master, I see.

Who can blame them?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/wikiality/images/d/d2/Bear2.gif

[Boston]

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/10/08/bc-081008-bear-attack4.jpg
Jim West demonstrates how he swung at the oncoming bear with a stick he grabbed off the ground. (CBC)

Those Canadian journalists really know how to suck us into the story...

[Shane P. Hallam]

Everyone knows all you have to do is sing and the Bears are yours.

[Brent]

FALSE, JBond. Bears are god-less killing machines.

[themaninblack]

The Bearorists are coming!

[bearsfan_51]

The Bear was probably too busy listening to some Celine Deon or Bryan Adams.

[bhaarat316]

Thats no stick its more like a log. But still that is awesome, only if he got another stick made it into a spear and jabed it into the bear.

I do like the new saying kill 3 bears with 1 stick or log.

[hobbes2053]

Jim West = badass. Do not **** with Jim West.

[wicket]

My main draws to canada would be the quality of fresh fish and hunting, for the rest I sincerely wouldnt wanna be canadian (or american)

[Gay Ork Wang]

That guy who was stuck on a mountain and had to cut his on arm off to survive was one badass mofo as well. His name slips my mind.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16497_7-people-who-cheated-death-then-kicked-it-in-balls.html

[CJSchneider]

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/wikiality/images/d/d2/Bear2.gif

That clip is hilarious. The bear looks at her for a second, as if to say "What did you say *****?" , and then she gets stole on. EPIC.

[The Unseen]

I'm half-Canadian. Sue me.

[Brent]

That guy who was stuck on a mountain and had to cut his on arm off to survive was one badass mofo as well. His name slips my mind.
Aron Ralston, I read the book he wrote.

[Gay Ork Wang]

http://www.cracked.com/article_16497_7-people-who-cheated-death-then-kicked-it-in-balls.html
Aron Ralston is in this article

[awfullyquiet]

that was pretty badass.

[B-Dawk]

All I saw was eyes full of hatred … I had no option … So I stuck my foot up and tried to kick her in the face

I said, in effect, bring it on sweetie. I took one step forward — smash!

that is a man right there

[someone447]

that is a man right there

Ya, he tried to kick a bear in the face. Let me repeat that, HE TRIED TO KICK A BEAR IN THE FACE!

[hobbes2053]

Ya, he tried to kick a bear in the face. Let me repeat that, HE TRIED TO KICK A BEAR IN THE FACE!

Very true. The stick was his plan B.

[Staubach12]

Bears are THE #1 threat to America AND Canada! They are mindless marauding godless killing machines! Kick threats in the face.

[someone447]

Colbert needs to get a hold of this story.

[CJSchneider]

I think the guy is an idiot for living in an area known to be inhabited by bears and going for a walk without a rifle.

[Chucky]

I think the guy is an idiot for living in an area known to be inhabited by bears and going for a walk without a rifle.

He's not a *****. He doesnt want to have an unfair advantage over the Bear.

[someone447]

I think the guy is an idiot for living in an area known to be inhabited by bears and going for a walk without a rifle.

So anyone who lives near wild animals who sometimes attack men should only go outside when carrying a rifle?

[themaninblack]

Did Colbert ever report anything about this?

[CJSchneider]

So anyone who lives near wild animals who sometimes attack men should only go outside when carrying a rifle?

Wild animals live all over, bears do not.

[someone447]

Wild animals live all over, bears do not.

No, but there are all sorts of animals that attack and kill people. Whats the difference between walking around bear country, or walking around where there are rattlesnakes? Both can kill you. What about walking around a city, another human can kill you. I guess you are stupid if you walk anywhere if you aren't carrying.

[CJSchneider]

Ok, I grew up in a heavily wooded area (Northern California), and when I went out in the woods (hunting, getting firewood, etc) I had a gun with me, because of the threat of wild animals. The last time I checked, there weren't to many bears wandering the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana. So I no longer bother.

[Brent]

Ok, I grew up in a heavily wooded area (Northern California), and when I went out in the woods (hunting, getting firewood, etc) I had a gun with me, because of the threat of wild animals
I lived in the same region but there really wasnt a threat of wild animals.

[TitleTown088]

Ok, I grew up in a heavily wooded area (Northern California), and when I went out in the woods (hunting, getting firewood, etc) I had a gun with me, because of the threat of wild animals. The last time I checked, there weren't to many bears wandering the streets of Shreveport, Louisiana. So I no longer bother.
I take it you still need to protect yourself from backcountry Burly Bears down south...? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

[Brent]

yikes TT hahah

[TitleTown088]

So anyone who lives near wild animals who sometimes attack men should only go outside when carrying a rifle?
Black Bears dig through my garbage here all the time. Never really see them or need a gun though.

[Brent]

They only attack because they feel threatened.

[Vox Populi]

Its no wonder it attacked him, who wouldn't be threatened if they saw the almighty JIM ******* WEST!!!

[awfullyquiet]

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/bear-vs-bike-bicycle-cyclist-missoula-montana.php

"In urban areas, cyclists need to watch out for cars. But in more rural places, there are other dangers. 57-year-old Jim Litz, a science teacher in Missoula, Montana, learned this when he t-boned a black bear while riding his bike to work. Read on for the details."

[CJSchneider]

This is why they have "Darwin-Awards".

[awfullyquiet]

This is why they have "Darwin-Awards".

when you're going 25 miles per hour. and you're not in a car. and a bear pops out at you. you will be in a fight with a very scared bear.

[CJSchneider]

Scroll down the page to the comments, you'll see what I was referring to.

[awfullyquiet]

i'm determining logistics of it

[hobbes2053]

This is why they have "Darwin-Awards".

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Greatest award ever.

[fenikz]

i killed a canadian with a stick thus

USA > Canada > Bears

[someone447]

i killed a canadian with a stick thus

USA > Canada > Bears

Sorry, but Jim West makes Chuck Norris look like a pansy.

[CJSchneider]

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

[diabsoule]

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

People are still telling Chuck Norris jokes? Wooooooooooooooooooooow.

[diabsoule]

Where's a good place to move in Canada? I'm tired of dealing with American stupidity.

[CJSchneider]

Classics never die.....and neither will Chuck Norris.

[hobbes2053]

Chuck Norris jokes are funny simply because of their ridiculousness. Perfect example: "Every year on his birthday, Chuck Norris selects a child to be thrown into the sun."