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		<title>Bear attack in a Cleveland Suburb</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was relayed to me by a friend who saw it on TV, so I researched it. This story is so crazy it doesn&#8217;t seem possible that it could be true but it is and I will include links to the news stories about this if you didn&#8217;t hear about it when it happened. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This story was relayed to me by a friend who saw it on TV, so I researched it. This story is so crazy it doesn&#8217;t seem possible that it could be true but it is and I will include links to the news stories about this if you didn&#8217;t hear about it when it happened.</p>
<p>Imagine this, you (a woman) and your 15 yr old daughter are in your quiet suburban home and opening the garage door to let the dog out.</p>
<p>Right then a 500 POUND BEAR busts through the inside garage door knocking your daughter down behind the door and then it pounces on you in your own living room!</p>
<p>I know this sounds crazy but it actually happened to a woman named Rachel Supplee and her daughter Daphne in May of 2006. See here for actual news story in a new window</p>
<p>The poor 15 yr old tried to fight the bear off her mom and she said something in an interview that she grabbed a stun gun but the batteries were dead which made me think that people treat their stun guns like their smoke detectors. <img src='http://www.getselfprotection.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  The other first thing that popped into my mind was dang you were someplace you could get a stun gun but didn&#8217;t get a pepper spray; it would have helped if shot directly into the bear&#8217;s eye, it isn&#8217;t meant for a bear unless you get bear repellent but in a pinch it would be good enough.</p>
<p>The daughter then called 911, who at first had to have thought it was a joke, &#8220;my mom is being attacked in the living room by a bear&#8221;, IN CLEVELAND! I can only imagine, but thankfully the daughter kept her wits and went to the refrigerator and got some meat to lure the bear off the mom who ran outside.</p>
<p>The daughter kept the bear at bay with food (keeping the refrig door between her and the bear) until help eventually arrived and killed the bear.</p>
<p>Both Rachel the mom and Daphne the daughter, survived this attack thankfully but the mom had an ear ripped off, a chunk of the back of her head eaten off (bears seem to like to chomp down on the back of the head of their victims to kill them) , her lungs were punctured, ribs broken and had a hole in her back she said a fist or two could have fit into.</p>
<p>Now by now you have to be saying wow but we haven&#8217;t even got to that part yet. Now Ohio is not known for its&#8217; bears and has less than 25 in the entire State by my research (check here for info http://www.bear.org/Black/Black_Bear_Populations.html).</p>
<p>Some yahoo, a &#8220;business owner&#8221; had two of the bears, a male and female and the bears had &#8220;pushed past him&#8221; while he was fixing the cage. Now this guy doesn&#8217;t have a high electrical fence protecting his neighbors from his predatory wild animals, no that would make too much sense; instead he has some little fence.</p>
<p>Instead of going for the male which a year earlier he tried to get rid of for &#8220;being aggressive&#8221; he goes for the female when they get loose and the male goes down to Rachel&#8217;s house and attacks them in their home.</p>
<p>Now what really is the wow of this story is this that as of the latest info I could find, which was from 12/06, the owner has NOT BEEN CHARGED! See here for the story.</p>
<p>My god, I just talked about dog owners being responsible for dog attacks who the hell ever thinks about these morons around the country with Lions, tigers and bears oh my!</p>
<p>The question comes to this, when does your right to personal freedom begin to intrude upon my right to live? As soon as you friggin get a predatory animal on your property!</p>
<p>What is wrong with people today? I am all about freedoms BUT when your freedoms risk my life, your freedoms need to go bye bye. My right to live outweighs your right to own &#8220;personal property&#8221; like large cats, snakes, bears and reptiles.</p>
<p>When I see an owner get killed by one of these &#8220;pets&#8221; I say to myself, you got what you deserve and better the owner than some innocent victim! Buy a goldfish loser!</p>
<p>Say what you want but once again, I am right! :p </p>
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