WARNING GORE: Polar Bear Attack

**Mergie Master** · 01-29-2014, 10:19 PM

Polar bear attack - September 2003 Nunavut, Canada

The full story here-->Polar Bear Attack - Analysis

The victim of the mauling was an Inuit hunting guide by the name
of Kootoo Shaw, who was encamped with three American caribou
hunters when the attack occurred.

As the hunters recounted it, the bear rolled into camp and took
an idle swat at their tent first, then headed for Shaw's, ripping
it open and proceeding to jump up and down on him, clawing at
his back and tearing at his scalp. The hunters shot and killed
the bear before it could inflict a fatal wound.

"I could feel his heavy breathing and feel his teeth on the back
of my neck," he later told a reporter for the Northern News
Service. "I thought he was going to bite my neck."

He was treated for "multiple bites and slashes" on his back,
arms, and feet.

In addition to getting mauled by the bear, Shaw was also hit with
a stray bullet from the hunters trying to save him.

It took 300 stitches to reattach his scalp.

A year later, Shaw was still recovering from the attack but said
he had every intention of going back to work as a guide.

**b.t.guardian07** · 01-29-2014, 10:21 PM

shhhhhhhYYYYEEEAATTTTTTTT. SHIT!

**nitro5x6's** · 01-29-2014, 10:23 PM

Lucky he didn't lose his foot.

**Mergie Master** · 01-29-2014, 10:30 PM

It looks like the guys trying to shoot the bear off of him were trying to shoot away from his torso. I notice the bear seems to be hit back near it's hindquarters too, probably for the same reason. Looking at that foot I'd say "getting saved" from a bear can be danged near as bad as getting eat by said bear!

You'd think if one of his saviors had any balls they'd have just run up and shot the bear in the ear or back of the head. Probably a bunch of rich businessmen from Chicago that were pissing all over themselves the whole time.

I've read that a polar bear is the only bear in which every single individual will hunt and kill humans. I guess living on the ice like that, meat is meat to them, they don't care what kind of skin it's wearing.