So my parents went up to Whistler for the weekend, and my dad was spending a lazy Sunday afternoon sitting in the hot tub when his head got smacked claw-first and knocked him forward into the water. He spun around and scrambled out as the bear got into the water and then he staggered into the house while the bear paced outside of the window. The place backs onto a very thin greenbelt between the property and the highway.
That's about it for the story... three gashes on the head, one right through onto the skull and 18 stitches long, and a concussion. But otherwise he's fine. It was pretty quick and since he's fine we're laughing about it now. At least he'll have a good story to go with what will be a huge scar.
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Originally Posted by rockyi
Damn.....post an article if you can.
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The most interesting part to me, being a communications student, was the shear amount of media coverage. I reckon it's some sort of combination between it bleeds so it leads, with the humour factor that it was in a hot tub, not dampened though because he survived, and that means they have someone to interview, and it's probably the first attack of the season so the local news channels (Global and CTV) used it as a chance to air their bear-safety filler segment.
Local:
Whistler Question
CKNW
News 1130
TriCity News
Vancouver Sun
Metro News
Regional/Northwest:
Calgary Herald
Victoria Times Colonist
Castlegar Source
Beaccon News
National:
CBC
National Post
International/Online:
Huffington Post
Yahoo!
TV:
Global TV
CTV News -> Interviews with my parents....
My uncle works for CTV so they got the "exclusive" interview. The phone was ringing quite a bit yesterday though and again before even 7 am this morning from reporters looking for an interview.
Don't read the comments on those online articles unless you want to be angry. I really shouldn't have. "He should have died instead of the bear." "He was clearly provoking the bear and trying to feed it." "He was obviously leaving food scraps and garbage around." etc etc etc
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This will probably be my last evening on here until the 17th unless I waste time on the computer while I'm there.
I'll need somewhere to dump all the photos and a way to charge my MP3 player. I tried using a charger that plugs into the wall and it just drained the battery. I think you're supposed to put it on USB mode.
Hopefully I don't get beheaded! 
this was my first experience with the franchise. They did an awesome job of advertising adnausium that my kid convinced made to take him on opening day.
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