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I am glad he is only using business cards, but man, it looks like he can do enough harm with just those!

EDITOR’S NOTE: After doing some fact checks I learned that this story is partly true. There is a great article on bear.org that shares the true details behind this mammoth bear.

Trophy bear (killed in self defense).This man works for the US Forest Service in Alaska

He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.

The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12′ 6′ high at the shoulder, 14′ to the top of his head. It’s the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.

Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild.

Based on the contents of the bear’s stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours including a missing hiker.

The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker’s
38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol were the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found.

Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear’s dead body), it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely.

The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear’s own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.

Think about this: If you are an average size man; you would be level with the bear’s navel when he stood upright. The bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a
two story house and look in the bedroom windows.

You may or may not know about the law requiring you call for utility locating before you do any excavation. The pictures below are a result of a guy using a post hole digger with out calling for “locates” and he hit an underground, high-pressure cross country gas pipe.

They never did find the remains of the guy…. It took out 2 homes.

These hard economic times require desperate measures. I can actually see someone trying this.

*READ BEFORE WATCHING*

The 3,150 m long Lefortovo Tunnel in Russia is the longest in-city  tunnel  in all the world. It is nicknamed ‘The Tunnel of Death’. See for yourself why.

There is a river running over the tunnel, and water leaks through in some areas. When the temperature reaches nearly 0°C
(like it does during the winter in Russia), the road freezes and becomes as slippery as hell.

The attached video which were taken during a single day with the tunnel surveillance camera.  Congratulations to the dual-carriage bus driver – imagine the passengers in the back! What a  ride!

The  next time you complain about traffic, remember this video.

He’s got a crush