June 21
Helen, Ga. - (AP) A camping trip to Low Gap Camp Grounds turned into a harrowing experience for Chris Everhart and his three sons when they tangled with a 300-pound black bear.

The bear had taken the Everharts' cooler and was heading back to the woods when the 6-year-old son hurled a shovel at it.

Fearing what might happen next, the father and ex-Marine grabbed the closest thing he could find a log.

"I threw it at it and it happened to hit the bear in the head," Everhart said. "I thought it just knocked it out but it actually ended up killing the bear."

The man was given a ticket for failing to secure his camp site, said a region supervisor for game management with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Some U.S. Forest Service agents were at the camp issuing a citation in an unrelated case. They got to the scene in a few minutes and verified what happened.
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A bear was killed because some brat decided to hurl something at it? The father did the right thing I suppose, but he could have at least let the bear maul the boy once first!

Well Yogi was running off with the cooler the child might have thought he was doing the right thing by lobbing something at yogi. But then the dad had to lob the log which caused Yogi to have a Booboo which resulted in Yogi's death.

If the cooler contained beer, then that is a perfectly reasonable response.

If it was something unimportant like food or water, they should've just let the bear have it.

Damn.

I wouldn't want to be in a bar fight with that guy.

Accidently killed a bear.

Sheesh.

I didn't read anything about the bear attacking or even being hostile. Sounds like he grabbed the cooler (can't picture that) and was high-tailing it outa there. No need to have killed the bear. They should have been cited for that.

quote from the former marine -- "they just don't make bears like they use to ."

Never mess with an ex-marine period. I don't blame him for doing that. My dad would do anything to keep his daughters safe.

iiIIIIIII geusss??? the BEAR should have thought of that before he tangled with a marine?????
So what you do on the weekend Everhart?
you know the ussual went camping with the kids caught some fish in the river roasted some marshmellows, accidently killed a bear, nothing too spectacular.

He was.

Poor bear....dumb a$$es, should have secured their campsite. Where I'm from everthing has to be secured, in and around park boundries. Some ppl seriously lack common sense.

R.I.P YOGI


You swiped one too many picnic baskets and now you shall be missed

How did you create a blank post chemical?

Marine may be strong and good at throwing logs, but he's hardly intelligent. The bear is leaving and he chucks a log at it? The most likely result would be that the bear gets mad and turns around to attack.

And teach your kid not to throw things at wild animals. Good grief.

ANYTHING? Mwhahahah

JK, I would too.

I believe he was cited only for not securing his stuff (probably beer and insignificant) as opposed to being cited for animal cruelty or killing a bear without a license etc. Really gives a bad name to jar heads.

I seriously doubt anyone was ever in danger or threatened. Bears live around people all the time, and attacks by non-grizzles are rare.

I have been confronted on many occasions by bears looking for food and garbage in the Lake Tahoe, CA area. One got inside the house while my dad was inside. All he noticed was the object rushing by him to get out, with the food he stole from the refridg.

Yeah. Pretty much.

If you came into my house with a cooler, don't be surprised if I confiscate it just like the bear did.

This doesn't surprise me, east coast bears are weak. If this guy tried to tangle with a west coast bear he would get messed up.

LMAO!

Except the guy's in a kilt.

But that's still funny as hell!

Kudo's Chaoszerg! Awesome!

I've always wondered how many marines it would take to kill a bear...

So you have never accidently killed a bear? geez, I thought everyone has beaten a bear to death with a log... In my day we didn't even have logs to use; just tiny branches-if you were lucky you could poke them in the eye and blind them whilst repeatedly kicking them shins...it takes a while to kill a bear by kicking it in the shins, but in my day we didn't take the easy way out and use logs. People just aint as tough as they used to be...

Branches? Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, kill a bear using nowt but matchsticks and a hanky and then Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.

I suppose I am the only person who doesn't believe the story. The idea that anyone could 'throw' a log at a bear and kill it is preposterous! I don't believe he killed the bear with a log. The whole story seems strange...bears don't run off with coolers...they destroy them trying to open them. And when confronted they either run or fight.

Anybody with any real 'bear' sense want to back me up here?

You do raise a point.

Can I hit you in the head with a log just to see what happens?

Did you see the log?:

OH, my friend YES THEY DO!!!! and it's best to let them do it, this guy was nutty! We ran into the SUV and locked the doors, started the engine and then watched.

Fair enough. But I saw a video of a black bear stuck in a tree in a neighborhood. The firefighters put a trampoline under the tree and then shot the bear with tranqs. The bear fell out of the tree, hit the trampoline, bounced 20 feet into the air and landed on the ground...HEAD first....survived with no problems. Now I am supposed to believe that some guy 'threw' a log at a bear and killed it?! I suppose like David killed Goliath by striking a particular spot that it's possible...I just don't see that ever happening.

I think this guy did so well he should move up a round and try to take out a polar bear with a spoon.

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I think Chuck norris would have handled this situation diffeently for one he wouldnt need a log also doing round house kicks in a kilt might expose a bit too much if you know what i mean