What a story! I don't even know what to title this...

gryp

Mon, May 19 2008, 3:59 pm

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/briti.....ments

Quote:

'He's eating my brain. I can feel it,' recalls bear attack survivor

Quote:

A 53-year-old man managed to drive to safety after a grizzly bear mauled his head and tossed him to the ground in the woods near Bella Coola, about 700 kilometres north of Vancouver.

The attack took place on May 3 when Brent Case was on a surveying job along the rugged Central Coast area.

"He came up from behind me and started gnawing at the back of my head. It just started ripping the scalp off the head," Case, who lives in Saanich, B.C., told CBC News on Friday.

"The pain was so excruciating that I don't know why I didn't yell or scream, but I just said, 'I have to play dead.'"

Case dropped down in the fetal position and tried to hang on, but the adult grizzly ripped into his left arm, leaving ugly wounds.

The bear then went for his right arm and bit through the muscle, just missing a major artery, Case said.

"He's eating my gristle and he's gnawing on my head. I was saying, 'He's eating my brains. I can feel it.' I know it's happening and I said, 'God! I hope it gets over soon'" he said.

"I said, 'I'm too young to die. I don't want to die,' and then he stopped."

The bear suddenly seemed to have enough and pushed him into the mud, still grunting and snorting, Case said.

The bear then moved off after the attack. With the grizzly only metres away, Case said he carefully made his way to his nearby truck.

Drives 25 km to safety
His hands were so swollen and bloody, he could barely get his keys out of his pocket, said Case, an experienced outdoorsman.

"I knew that if I didn't drive and have the fortitude to control things, I was going to die."

Case then drove 25 agonizing kilometres to the closest town to seek help. He finally reached a gas station and asked the attendant to call for an ambulance.

"I think my brains are hanging out," he said. "I don't know what's happening here, but I'm alive. I started wiggling my fingers and toes."

A local game warden later found the bear and shot at him, killing him.

Case is now recovering from numerous wounds and has received plastic surgery.

"I said [to the doctors], 'There's nothing hanging out that you're not telling me?' They said, 'No, you're okay.'"

"They started using the peroxide and, 'Ooh,' I said, 'that hurt more than the bear!'"

This time I don't want to post the picture. shock

chocolate moose

Mon, May 19 2008, 4:02 pm

Gross. After a little bit of it, I didn't read the rest.

GR, that's unlike you to post.

Maya

Mon, May 19 2008, 4:05 pm

chocolate moose wrote:

Gross. After a little bit of it, I didn't read the rest.

Same here.

greenfire

Mon, May 19 2008, 4:10 pm

... there goes my chocolate ... What

Pickle Lady

Mon, May 19 2008, 4:39 pm

I read through it. Thats amazing. What strength hashem can give us when we would never think we could have it. The man drove 25 km AFTER the attack. Thats truly amazing.

gryp

Mon, May 19 2008, 4:53 pm

See why Pickle Lady and I are friends? Wink

That's what I thought was amazing too about the story.

Mommy3.5

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:15 pm

wow.

sunshine!

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:18 pm

What a story...

queen

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:19 pm

he is real lucky to still be alive today!

chayitty

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:25 pm

I was wondering wat gave him the strength to get up and go to the car!!!...I bet u he didnt look into the mirror!!

Mama Bear

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:31 pm

his adrenaline and the will to live really kicked in.

GAMZu

Mon, May 19 2008, 9:34 pm

That's unbelievable. To just lie there and not move or make a sound while being ripped open by a bear? That's totally going against human nature! I don't know how he did it.
Whooooo.

flowerpower

Mon, May 19 2008, 10:45 pm

It is very interesting. He better believe in g-d after that.

mimivan

Mon, May 19 2008, 11:11 pm

GR wrote:

See why Pickle Lady and I are friends? Wink

That's what I thought was amazing too about the story.

I skimmed it because I have a weak stomach and can't handle stories like this...but I can see whay you posted it...
I will iy'h try to resist the temptation to call you GRRRRRR! from now on LOL

cookielady

Mon, May 19 2008, 11:14 pm

I will iy'h try to resist the temptation to call you GRRRRRR! from now on

Rolling Laughter

gryp

Tue, May 20 2008, 8:52 am

LOL, mimivan. Grizzlies and GRRRR.

chocolate moose

Tue, May 20 2008, 10:24 am

cookielady wrote:

I will iy'h try to resist the temptation to call you GRRRRRR! from now on

Rolling Laughter

Oh, and when I said that you complained I wa s growling at you ??? Sad

miriamnechama

Tue, May 20 2008, 10:33 am

owe what a story....I think bears are just as dangerous... I heard oncethat the can squeeze you dry of air.

reeminds me of thebear attack in teh catskills years back.. and it also remindsme when a lion muled a man's head in london in teh 1990's...

bh we don't have bears by us in israel...

gonewiththewind

Tue, May 20 2008, 11:34 am

Since you don't know what to title it:

Grizzy Gobbles Gooky Grey Matter- Gross!
Bear Bites Brain - Bizarre!

gryp

Tue, May 20 2008, 11:40 am

Thanks for the help! I was sure some people here could come up with a creative title.

I just don't know which part of the story to leave out of the title- the fact that the bear attacked the man, or that the man played dead while being eaten by the bear, or that the man drove 25 km in semi-consciousness and got himself help, or that he told the doctor that the peroxide hurts more than the bear did!
And I wonder why he didn't have a gun on him.