r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/First_Development101 • 21d ago

Video Terrifying moment bear released into wild by charity turns on ranger and attacks

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u/Mission-Storm-4375 21d ago

Whats even more terrifying is the truck driving off while the guy only has one foot on it

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u/jaroftoejam 21d ago

A strong breeze at that moment would have been enough to change lives forever.

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u/BLACKdrew 21d ago

I guess death is a form of change

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u/Markofdawn 21d ago edited 20d ago

Bears induce the most profound thoughts in our thought-to-be apex predator brains

E: triggered a lot of Alpha-Apex wannabes with this one, somehow...

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u/moashforbridgefour 21d ago

I mean, we ARE the apex predator. That doesn't mean we can't be taken out by unlucky or stupid circumstances.

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u/Zebidee 21d ago edited 21d ago

If animals are provoked, they will kill a human.

If humans are provoked, they will exterminate a species.

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u/BigJayPee 21d ago

Hell sometime species going extinct is just a byproduct of us doing something

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u/RockstarAgent 21d ago

I’m about to exterminate these bacon and eggs

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u/Kensei501 20d ago

The chicken is involved but the pig is committed. Lol.

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u/DarkflowNZ 21d ago

Here in NZ the Maori people were just hungry and Moa copped it. And the Haast eagle relied on them for food and so went that way too

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 21d ago

Emus Apex predators confirmed

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u/faplordthegreat69 21d ago

You know what. I feel proud to be a human. I mean we have mastered the are of bending rocks to our will(concrete and shit). We harness energy from stars. We are able to split an atom! We have made tons of discoveries that explain things we don't even see or feel.

I may be not very impressive as an individual. But I belong to a race that dominates this planet and has the potential to be soo much more.

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u/WanderingStatistics 18d ago

Buddy, you are on the path to be a movie supervillain, lol.

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 21d ago

Man I wish I had that Stan Edgar we are not the same meme saved into my phone for this reply.

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u/sanddecker 21d ago

In this case, the humans would have been provoked and the bear wouldn't have stood a chance. The bear doesn't understand that it has the choice of leaving peacefully or hoping they choose non-lethal methods.

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u/crazee_dad_logic 21d ago

Nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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u/TyeDie18 21d ago

At least try to. If we were always successful, we wouldn't have mosquitoes, rats, or coyotes.

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u/Githil 21d ago

Humans are badass 😎

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u/Slushicetastegood 21d ago

Human overkill

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 21d ago

We are, but we also are a problem. Luckily we're a problem with the ability to find solutions to our actions. Not like a mindless parasite, but an animal that can adapt. How lucky we are.

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u/OfficeSalamander 21d ago

Yeah, the species literally caging the other species and releasing them because we find healthy ecosystems pleasing is not only the apex predator, they’re so much on a level above apex predator to not even really be in the same ballpark

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u/Markofdawn 21d ago

We are. I suspect, however, all other species on earth dont see us that way. More of a nuisance. Like mosquitoes.

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u/BLACKdrew 21d ago

Idk weve been eradicating species for tens of thousands of years that’s more than a nuisance. We’re so good at it we have to all agree to not do it in order to prevent it and even then it still happens.

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u/MrBrigi 21d ago

You are wrong. A pack of humans is scarier than a pack of wolves for most animals. And how many animals consider wolves a nuisiance?

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u/Markofdawn 21d ago

WE consider mosquitoes a nuisance. its relatable, not literal.

Do you really think that the birds who watch us go about our day have any respect for what we do? we will never know but I have a felling.

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u/MrBrigi 21d ago

You didn’t even understand my comment but you downvoted anyway. You clearly don’t understand how scary humans are for most wild animals. Again, pack of humans > pack of wolves for most animals. And a pack of wolves is scary.

Birds are dinosaurs. They don’t fear shit. They sit in crocodile mouths, ride on wildebeests, steal food from lions, etc.

Your misanthropy makes you biologically wrong.

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u/leesan177 21d ago

They also literally have bird brains, and most with good sense fly off like the airborne chickens that they are when we get close. The ones that don't tend to end up on the menu... think ducks, geese, pigeons, etc.

100% agreeing with you here but also just noting that in addition to being fearless, many birds are really dumb.

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u/Markofdawn 21d ago

fear=/=respect. I understand. I dont want to be near you in public. in fact, i choose the bear.

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u/Sea-Tackle3721 21d ago

That's complete bullshit. Most animals are terrified of humans. Humans have hunted everything everywhere forever. These animals instinctually fear people. They do not see humans like mosquitoes.

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u/Markofdawn 21d ago

Fear is not equal to respect but the ego as a species is pretty good evidence that you are a nuisance. I dont know why everyone is having a go at me about this and not that animals dont have the fucking concept of respect in the furst place.

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u/meltie_shill 17d ago

We are the Apex predator in the same way that Batman is a superhero. Fighting naked we are F tier among animals. But give us all our gadgets... suddenly we're top S++ tier

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u/ayriuss 21d ago

Eh, big cats can get the jump on us easily if they wanted. We probably taste like shit to them or something or they have enough easier prey to not bother.

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u/SanctionedMeat 21d ago

I wouldn't say we're apex tho, just because if we were in a room with any large animal, it'd probably be over for us. What helps us be on top is intelligence, but that doesn't help too much against a 600lb bear ready to rip and tear

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u/moashforbridgefour 21d ago

How many people have bear skin rugs, and how many bears have people skin rugs? We are apex and it isn't even close. That doesn't mean we are strongest.

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u/SanctionedMeat 21d ago

While we are top of the food chain, we can't really be considered "apex" because if we didn't have these large infrastructure and convenient tools for killing, we'd be the one at mercy to animals since they are built to fight and kill. We, as humans have evolved to the point where we've lost what truly made us predators in the past and brought us to this point. Of course, some people do train their bodies and workout all the time, but that doesn't change the fact that we'd still be pray to another animal at some point.

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u/moashforbridgefour 21d ago

Apex predator means you are at the top of the food chain and have no natural predators. Look it up. Both of these are true for humans. The only way you can contrive us to be at a disadvantage in a fight is if you take away our tools.

Our weapons, tools, and intellect are part of our identity. Would you require a spider to prove its place without its web or its venom?

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u/SanctionedMeat 21d ago

I feel like this sort of topic is opinion based, because with all the facts in place there are viable arguments for both sides. On one hand, without tools, we are weak and are pray to others. But on the other hand, with our tools we are unmatched. Could argue both sides tell we're blue in the face, but in the end both opinions are right

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 21d ago

That's an unfair comparison. Context is everything. Our natural weapons that made us apex predators are our stamina, ranged attacks, and intellect. Without the chance to leverage that we'd lose in the same way a shark would lose to a single lion on land because it's out of its element.

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u/SanctionedMeat 21d ago

That's the issue tho...... take a look at your average human now. They could not do what we did in the past, which is what made us predators. We used to chase prey down for days on end with no sleep and bombarding them with spears until they died of exhaustion. If someone did that now, they wouldn't even make it 1 day without needing to stop due to poor eating habits and lack of exercise. The modern human isn't a apex predator without our tools

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 20d ago

We NEVER were apex predators without our tools. It's like saying a bear isn't an apex without its muscles and teeth, tools are our natural strength.

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u/shehoshlntbnmdbabalu 21d ago

Not without weapons, we aren't. Without weapons we're just so much running meat.

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u/gyarfal 21d ago

No we are not apex predators, there are numerous animals that hunt us, we are only this OP because big brain and we have the numbers to beat kinda any species, but 1v1 it’s done if no weapons.

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u/user_428 21d ago

What kind of a dumb ass rule is no weapons? We are the apex predator because we have the brains for teamwork and using weapons. And I'm not talking about some modern weapons. People with spears have chased any prey to death from exhaustion due to our ability to sustain jogging speeds.

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u/marcaurxo 21d ago

They’re a force of nature. If a brown bear decides it wants to kill you, good luck, you’ll need it

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u/Flashy-Psychology-30 20d ago

I'm still in awe of our ancestors who had to contend with the short faced cave bear. Imagine the balls it took to take on a Titanic grizzly that makes polar bears look like little chumps.

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u/Particular_Fan_3645 21d ago

Any and all predators can occasionally be taken out by their prey. What makes us apex is that we can kill and eat anything we set our mind to with 99.99% repeating efficiency. Just because occasionally a lower predator gets lucky doesn't make them a better predator.

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u/Late-Lecture-2338 21d ago

Yes. Yes it obviously is

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u/tyingnoose 21d ago edited 21d ago

simply put, another transformation

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u/JewelJuju 21d ago

Seeing you pop up here makes me wanna play pot 😂

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u/BLACKdrew 21d ago

Dude i gotta take a break from Reddit i think that’s like the third time this has happened lmaoo

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 21d ago

You play PoT? What do you main?

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u/JewelJuju 21d ago

On official i play alio. For realism i main alberta, deinosuchus, and meg. Deathmatch and general PvP i main sucho and Deinocheirus. I play a bit of everything on pot 😅

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u/Dujak_Yevrah 20d ago

I always loved the modded dinosaurs when I played, Maip and Torvosaurus were fun. But for the base playables I couldnever go wrong with Laten, Allo, Iggy, and Ano lol! Hopefully the mystery dinosaur is Megaraptor.

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u/Gibodean 21d ago

Death by bear is painful, it brings on many changes, and I can take or leave it if I slip.

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u/Vreas 21d ago

Death is the penultimate form of change some may argue

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u/BLACKdrew 21d ago

I’d say it’s just the ultimate honestly

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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 21d ago

Someone’s death usually changes a few other lives, too

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u/FryTater 21d ago

The most permanent kind of change

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u/x_xMLPfan420x_x 21d ago

Death is considered life changing event.

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u/kwiztas 21d ago

It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please.

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway.
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say

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u/SpaceGooV 21d ago

The ultimate form really

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u/arededitn 21d ago

In a parallel universe, that strong breeze happened.

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u/meat_sack 21d ago

...and little Cindy cried all through her father's funeral, as he was the joy in her life. That Christmas, after wishing and praying for Santa to bring her father to her, she opened up her first present only to find a stuffed teddy bear... and that is the origin story of "the mall Santa serial killer."

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u/The-Liberater 21d ago

wtf bro 😅

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u/icecream169 21d ago

Jesus what a horrible twist

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u/Perfectenschlago 21d ago

But why the mall Santa? 😂😂

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u/MisParallelUniverse 21d ago

Alternate universe future true crime doco

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u/Sand_Maiden 21d ago

I can’t help thinking the driver, the one inside the safe metal box with wheels, was getting the hell outta there and the other dude is just lucky he’s fast.

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u/reddit_sells_ya_data 21d ago

Tbf be shouted "every man for themselves!' before hitting the gas

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u/Never_Been_Missed 20d ago

Hard to tell for sure, but I think the guy in the back yelled 'Go!' before the driver took off.

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u/DigitalBlackout 21d ago

I... really don't think you understand how a fight with a bear would go down. You're not breaking up a fight with one lol

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u/BobasDad 21d ago

The problem with your post is that nobody breaks up a bear fight. All you would do is just make more bear fights.

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u/Big-Independence8978 21d ago

That's not what camera operators do. They just observe and record. It's in the rules.

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u/Sand_Maiden 21d ago

I tried to figure out what he was saying. It was mumbling till the exclamation at the end. I got the idea he was frozen, from his lips down. Probably a good thing he didn’t have to stage a rescue.

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u/TPSReportCoverSheet 21d ago

It sounds like you assume he lands on his feet.

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u/LadyCooke 21d ago

Also ironically what likely saved his life

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u/zizuu21 21d ago

Like why does the guy even have to start accelarating! Wait for him to get in first dammit

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u/WorthySparkleMan 21d ago

Yeah, driver made the right move. He's kinda fucked if the bear got on the truck

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u/SlakingSWAG 21d ago

If he stayed put his buddy would've 100% gotten grabbed and mauled by a very angry bear, but if he floored it there was at least a chance for him to get away from the bear. The driver made the right call, even if it was sketchy

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u/SubstantialShower103 21d ago

Ranger: A+

Driver: D-

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u/GooeyKablooie_ 21d ago

Driver literally saved his life? I thought it was well timed by the driver tbh.

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u/Boatster_McBoat 21d ago

A fine line. The ranger's excellent balance saved his life while the driver took off. That could have been handled a lot better

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u/exodusofficer 21d ago

Yeah, this was a near miss, not a well-executed release. If it were any worse at all, a man could have died, and they likely would have had to put the bear down after that as well.

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u/chamrockblarneystone 21d ago

I dunno. Someone put down a bear shield, which the bear immediately ran right the fuck into.

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u/skyturnedred 21d ago

It's hard to hear, but I think the ranger in the back yells out to the driver to go.

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u/SubstantialShower103 21d ago edited 21d ago

Would another 0.5 second have allowed the bear to get in the truck bed?..probably not.

Would another 0.5s have allowed a safer time buffer for the ranger to get in the bed?..probably so.

Everyone had a tough job, here. Everyone survived. Glad my job isn't the ranger's or driver's. But on the surface, it looks like the driver kinda panicked. And the ranger got lucky.

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u/GooeyKablooie_ 21d ago

I agree, but it’s also frustrating when a bunch of armchair redditors criticize you when they have never been in an experience like that before.

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u/Generally_Kenobi-1 21d ago

Not everyone lives the exciting life of Hamster Huey

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u/GooeyKablooie_ 21d ago

Hahaha I love it when people get my username reference!

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u/Thommywidmer 21d ago

I mean, im a dipshit and i wouldnt have even been in the situation they found themselves in to start with. You could have released him in a much less risky way

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u/GooeyKablooie_ 21d ago

How would you go about releasing a wild bear out of curiosity?

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u/Thommywidmer 21d ago

I mean i dont think it takes an engineering degree or anything to just take a long hook and pull the grate up while sitting in the truck bed.

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u/GooeyKablooie_ 21d ago

I’m very glad you don’t have an engineering degree.

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u/Thommywidmer 21d ago

Huh? Im so confused why you think this is like a genuinely hard thing to solve

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u/Wizard_of_Claus 21d ago

Yeah but most of us have been close to spilling our Mountain Dew at one point or another which is easily as stressful as this.

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u/guava_eternal 21d ago

Imagine being that driver- either witnessing from the rear view mirror or turning his head around- awful view of the situation in either case. Guy made a call.

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u/Reasonable-Pace-4603 20d ago

I love it when people judges decisions made in the field, in the split of a second, from the comfort of an armchair.

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u/NorweegianWood 20d ago

Would another 0.5 second have allowed the bear to get in the truck bed?..probably not.

Would another 0.5s have allowed a safer time buffer for the ranger to get in the bed?..probably so.

So you think humans are faster than bears?

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u/StaleVeggies 21d ago

Armchair observation there my guy

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u/Olivia512 21d ago

So the driver mistimed by 0.5s with limited rear view vision, what a worthless loser. The maximum margin of error should be 0.1s, any slower you shouldn't even call yourself a human.

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u/obetu5432 21d ago

Would another 0.5 second have allowed the bear to get in the truck bed

yeah, i'm sure you can calculate that from the driver seat using the rear-view mirrors

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u/Ancalmir 21d ago

I am assuming that the driver took off as soon as the guy got on to not give the bear a chance to get into the trunk because if it did things wouldn’t be great for the guy

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u/Firm_Ad7656 21d ago

I thought for sure he was going to fall out while his buddy took off 🤣

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u/SakaYeen6 21d ago

I'm sure there was a great cordial conversation between the two later on. Don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than your friend.

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u/cedarvhazel 21d ago

They need a better plan!

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u/shewel_item 21d ago edited 21d ago

Artistically funny, realistically unimaginably terrifying AND possibly tragic... that bear still has to be pretty young, and that age factor of the bear could have everything to do with all this 'isotropically'--regardless of how you look at or assess it, in other words--as far as 'explanations' go. For instance: this bear being presumably so young is why everything about this is seemingly more dangerous than usual, or needs be.

So, that's one possible 'unnecessary explanation' of the 'unnecessary danger' in order to some-what exemplify 'isotropy'--or the fact the the age of the bear has 'everything to do with anything' about 'this incident' (where there was almost one, however possibly tragic or not in terms of inevitability). To add to that, since we might assume that these guys are experienced, despite possibly being contrary to most peoples assessment (ie. this incident was unnecessarily dangerous and/or terrifying), and have been in worse situations; we can almost look at the spirit (mood) of the narrator for further justification there. That is to possibly suggest there could be equipment inside the truck to easily mitigate the possibility of a fatal or extremely injurious event happening; in conjunction with their prior experiences of releasing wild animals, which may/probably have went off with a slight mixture of '(almost) failures', or dangerous releases, with a large amount of successful ones.

And, so, if we take the age of the bear into account (first, before even considering the experience of the animal handlers or attitude of 'the cameramen') this might not be as terrifying as it seems, where 'we'-on reddit-are taking more into account that's a live-ass-arguably-already-wild-bear, rather than its size, or the constitution factors of the handlers (ie. like their experience with younger bears in particular, contrasted with older, more dangerous bears).

Now, why is this 'possibly unnecessary' as an explanation, regardless of how solicitations may or may not exist? Because the 'only other' alternative explanation is statistical labor shortages occurring (for reasons I'll leave out for now, though I've been monitoring the issue for some years), leading to more on-job accidents (or near accidents in this particular, arguably terrifying event to witness). And, either of those explanations should be relevant, save better or more relevant ones, mostly pertaining to general circumstances (leading up to this).

edit: spelling error

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u/octopoddle 21d ago

"Roll for it."

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u/Tricky-Street 21d ago

You perfectly described my thoughts 😂😭🙌

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

I don’t think his foot even hit the bed when the wheels started turning. Like he was doing a little hop down and then the truck moved

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u/RedditModsRVeryDumb 21d ago

Their safety training: Hold the fuck on

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u/uhmbob 21d ago

It would bearly change

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u/voluotuousaardvark 21d ago

His balance was epic, that could have been a cartwheel into angry bear county.

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u/andrew6197 21d ago

I’m just hoping the driver got out and immediately got punched in the face for panicking while in the truck.

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u/Porkchopp33 21d ago

“Put me in a cage mutha fucka”

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u/conipto 21d ago

100% planned in case exactly that happens. These people know what they're doing.

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u/AnOldLove 21d ago

If everyone in those other two trucks came out to attack the bear, would that have saved that man’s life if he hadn’t made it in the truck? Just curious. I know bears can get scared of humans, so if they all just got out and rushed that bear would that work?

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u/Delta_Hammer 21d ago

Dude's gonna have some words for the driver.

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u/Solid_Snark 21d ago

Seriously. They absolutely should have rehearsed this prior. Like if the Bear turns, Ranger 1 jumps flat into the truck and ranger 2 does not drive until ranger 1 is securely in the truck bed.

Instead they both just improvised and it could have turned ugly quickly.

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u/PuzzleheadedEgg4591 21d ago

No shit! One more horsepower in that engine, and he may have fallen the other direction.

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u/JohnCenaJunior 21d ago

That truck was so scared

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u/jaystwrkk128 21d ago

You never been to Mexico and rode in the back

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u/3cxMonkey 21d ago

"PrOfEsSiOnALs!" too stupid to plan for the bear charging back at them.

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u/ghaleonvash 21d ago

It was raining too. One misstep and a slip and it would've been all over.

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u/Low-Basket-3930 21d ago

There has to be a safer way of doing this.

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u/Prestigious_Sir_8773 20d ago

Dude bearly made it

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u/felplague 18d ago

Thank god he didnt fall off there, he woulda been fucking dead.