Bear Attack In Florida
BY Herschel Smith
11 years ago
WKMG:
Florida Fish and Wildlife officers have set up three traps in hopes of catching a bear that attacked a Longwood woman on Monday night.
Susan Chalfant, 54, was injured in the attack, classified by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as the first of its kind by a Florida black bear. Chalfant was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center with serious facial injuries and she remained hospitalized on Tuesday.
“The dogs got agitated, and she turned around to go back to her house, and the bear knocked her to the ground,” said Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Karen Parker.
According to officials, Chalfant was walking two small dogs around 8 p.m. in the 2600 block of English Ivy Court near Markham Woods Road when the bear attacked her before running away.
Chalfant was helped by neighbors and 911 was called, officials said.
“A woman has been mauled by a bear,” the neighbor said on the call, which was released Tuesday. “She’s so bloody, though, I can’t tell.”
The caller also told dispatchers that the woman was bleeding from her head.
According to the FWC, the neighbor said Chalfant was walking two small dogs, which became agitated and began to bark. The bear then attacked the woman, the neighbor told officials.
“We believe she was bitten,” said FWC spokeswoman Karen Parker, who added that they only have preliminary information about the incident.
The dogs were not harmed, officials said.
The comments are interesting. According to some idiotic remarks, it’s her own fault for walking a couple of yap-yap dogs.
My readers know how I feel about OC spray. It’s a second best option, far behind the first best option, a gun. If she had shot the bear, the game management folks wouldn’t be searching for the bear and trying to trap it and then “decide” what to do with it.
It would be on its way to bear-heaven, which as best as I can tell doesn’t exist because only humans are made in God’s image. Shoot the bear. It almost killed a woman. Does anything more need to be said?
Prior:
Backpacker Shoots Grizzly In Denali, First Life Saved Since Firearms Legal
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