Leave the bears alone for chrissakes.

Almost wish he got the claw.

This guy is an idiot. Bears are not cuddly and fun like a child's stuffed animal. They are wild animals who are territorial and protective of their cubs. I'm surprised that the mama bear only made a single threatening lunge at the dummy in the video.

We have bears who live in the forest behind our mountain house. This Spring, a neighbor said the female had two cubs. That's a dangerous mix and we give the animals a wide berth. The woods are their home and we respect their space mostly because it's the safest behavior. My wife was once chased couple of hundred yards up the hill from the river by a bear.

Here's a funny, though. I was mowing the lawn and I often see deer droppings. One day, there was a large pile of poop that obviously came from a bear. This proves that the adage is wrong: Bears don't shit in the woods, they do it on my front lawn!

Just wow, he's lucky she didn't tear him up.

"back off".

I would always look for the tree I would climb if I saw a grizzly coming in my direction. None of the black spruce exceeded 25-30 feet.

Just watching about 400 pounds of Grizzly launch itself up that high tree fast and with little effort, makes me happy I never had to go up those trees and end up being nothing but low hanging fruit.

Anybody else what to try ?

We were watching from a distance, and the naturalist who was with us said the guy was on his own if the mama bear attacked hlm. Fortunately for the idiot tourist, the bear wasn‘t handing out any Darwin awards that day.

how about the scare he gave the mother of those cubs? The next thing we see of this man his legs will be hanging out of a Great White as he was just trying to be friendly with it.

My wife and I were once hiking in England and got between a cow and her calf. The cow started trotting at us with GREAT determination (and a lot of bulk). We had to throw ourselves into a hedge to get away.

Till her babies were safely across the road. He got off easy. A good mom, but not aggressive to idiot humans.

Triplets! That's pretty unusual.

Bonehead should probably stay back East.

Starting to really dislike the National Park "experience". My Misanthropy is at an all time high.

on the East coast that will be glad to chomp his butt.

Especially when it involves animals being euthanized because of some human's stupidity. You better believe that whole bear family would have been taken out if this tourist would have gotten what he had coming.

The animals always lose.

is relatively tame

be missing an arm.

Someone should tell him it's not a petting zoo, when they lock his dumb ass up.

A fine, maybe.

He should face consequences that will make him think beyond his own selfish wishes.

But they won't waste the expense of a jail cell on him.

Out here in the PNW, 2 yahoos got caught red-handed poaching out of hunting season, killing animals wantonly in WA & OR.

https://tdn.com/news/local/high-profile-poacher-sentenced-as-poaching-ring-odyssey-nears-end/article_5b7b7f6e-1d45-5320-b2fa-b48c347892c8.html

Yahoo #1 got a year in jail, but gets to serve it on work-release. So even he didn't (really) do time.

Most of the them try to take you out.

Don't mess with bear cubs. Mama Bear don't like it.

You don't get between a cow and her calf.

In the national park with children running after cubs and parents taking videos.

Mind boggling.

The bears roaming and living in the Smoky Mountains are not Disney animals. Hello???

Not messing with any wildlife is a good idea, not even chipmunks.

Teaching people not to mess with poison oak is probably the most difficult task. I think some people, adults and children, are completely plant-blind. To them a plant is a plant. They may know enough not to eat a strange plant, but you can show them photographs of poison oak in all its forms, show them the actual plants, and thirty minutes later you'll find them standing in a big tangle of it trying to find the perfect spot for a selfie.

the bears life, killing the bear for no reason but a mans stupid. Leaving the cubs without a mama bear.

are used to foolish tourists. She is a younger bear too, which also probably saved him injury.

He did one of the few things you can do to provoke a black bear attack. As a rule they will avoid people whenever possible, but a momma bear WILL charge if you mess with her cubs.