Woman fights off a bear using only a zucchini

[Manic]

...and lives to tell the tale.


Police say a Montana woman used an unlikely weapon to fend off a charging bear — a zucchini.

Missoula County Sheriff's Lt. Rich Maricelli says a 200-pound black bear attacked the woman's 12-year-old collie just after midnight Wednesday on the back porch of her home about 15 miles west of Missoula.

When the woman, whom police did not name, screamed to draw the bear's attention, it charged her and swiped at her leg.

Maricelli says the woman jumped back into the doorway and reached for the nearest object on her kitchen counter — a 12-inch zucchini from her garden.

The woman flung the vegetable at the bear, striking it on top of the head and causing it to flee.

Maricelli says the woman did not need medical attention. Wildlife officials were trying to locate the bear on Thursday.


Source: SFGate

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I think this is a cautionary tale about eating your vegetables if I've ever heard one.

 

[SuperFerret]

How is the dog? 12 is awfully old for a collie.

Also, black bears have been getting more brazen recently. I wonder what's causing this?

 

[Wolfwood]

How convenient that she just happened to have a 12 Inch zucchini lying around in the middle of the night.

 

[terry78]

How convenient that she just happened to have a 12 Inch zucchini lying around in the middle of the night.

And a 12-incher to boot.

 

[Alex The Great]

She'll be on The Colbert Report. Just you wait

 

[Spider-Vader]

This may be the most epic woman ever!

 

[The IronMan]

Psht everyone knows that a zucchini has bear repelling properties

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned between her zucchini and a bear.

 

[Sensi]

I wish they would have told us how the dog was.

 

[Morg]

How is the dog? 12 is awfully old for a collie.

Also, black bears have been getting more brazen recently. I wonder what's causing this?

well heck, humans taking over their habitat and more and bears finding it harder to get food thanks to idiots feeding bears food and not letting them learn how to do it themselves.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

well heck, humans taking over their habitat and more and bears finding it harder to get food thanks to idiots feeding bears food and not letting them learn how to do it themselves.

that's just natural selection.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Truly the toughest person ever.