The real clue that they don't know what happened: We don't know enough to comment on what they don't know.

Check this out:
http://www.udap.com/images/video/MarksStory.wmv

Oh I agree, I was just being facetious.

I still think, though, that if you are gonna wander around in known bear country, you should arm yourself accordingly, meaning taking something that will stop a big bear, having it ready to use, and knowing how to deploy it properly. Even then it might not work, I guess we'll have to wait and hear more of the details first to see if this truly is a Darwin Award candidate or not.

Wow we have to get rid of those bears! Murdering psychopaths!(Sarcasm)

Seems like we hear of this kind of thing every year or so. Humans continue to encroach on these bears territory. Seems to me just part of the risk folks take hunting in these areas. I have a friend in New Mexico and he has bears eating out of his garbage cans.

Obviously this being a Grizzly; that would be pretty dramatic. I cannot imagine the horror of this guys death.

We aint got no bears down here in Texas! :-)

Actually, bears have been returning to both the forests of east Texas and the mountains over in Big Bend. A friend even claims he saw one near Spring/The Woodlands but I'm pretty sure it was just a feral hog.

-Blast

Aren't those Texas feral hogs large and aggressive?

They are coming back in the northern part of the state too. My best friend lives in southeastern Oklahoma just north of Sherman Tx. and they have black bears in the area.

It would be better to run into the bear

Blast your friend; does he drink a lot? Bears in the Woodlands! Thats funny!

Back in the early 1970's my grandfather said he saw a small bear in a rural area on Lake Livingston. Thats only a stones throw from The Woodlands; so I guess its possible.

Yes those feral hogs are pretty aggressive. I have family near where Blast is decribing and they are a problem.

Mountain Lions have even showed up in SE Lous-anna. I seen 2 dead ones on th side of I-12. The animals are migrating again.