Happen in Canada whole article posted under american big game hunting.

Some Candian police must not carry guns.



Black bear attacks and kills grandmother, 70, on fishing trip
Globe and Mail ^ | June 2, 2008 | KATE HAMMER

Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:26:03 PM by george76

The husband of a 70-year-old grandmother who was killed by a bear in northern Quebec ...

Conservation experts set traps after Friday evening's attack, but ... the bear was still at large in the wilds of northern Quebec.

As she scouted a fishing hole for walleye, Ms. Lavoie became separated from her husband. Barely 10 minutes later, Mr. Lavoie felt something was amiss and went searching for his wife of 51 years. Metres away he came upon the nightmarish scene of her body being dragged into the forest by a bear.

Mr. Lavoie chased the predator for nearly 200 metres and managed very briefly to scare it away from his wife. He tried but was unable to carry her limp and bleeding body back through the dense spring foliage.

He left her and went for help. When he arrived with police, the bear had returned and was combative.

"The bear was still around and the bear was aggressive,"

The bear was so aggressive, police were forced to delay attempts to retrieve Ms. Lavoie's remains until early Saturday morning...

In 1991, a black bear killed a Toronto couple in Algonquin Park...

In 2001, a high-school student was attacked and partly eaten by a black bear 25 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.

In 2007, a Calgary woman, who was cycling on a trail near a British Columbia resort, was stalked and killed by a black bear.

Here's something that bothers me....the man managed to get the police to return to the site of the attack. Why didnt the police go properly armed???
I mean, they do carry shotguns in their patrol cars. At least they could have called a game warden for back up.

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Originally posted by 7mm-08:
Here's something that bothers me....the man managed to get the police to return to the site of the attack. Why didnt the police go properly armed???
I mean, they do carry shotguns in their patrol cars. At least they could have called a game warden for back up.

Hey, this is Quebec. They probably thought bears are cute and cuddly vegetarians.