Treadwell's death and body recovery - a live-action account

[230RN]

Duplicate post (again.)

 

[230RN]

Me, Nelson Muntz?

You were laughing in the sense of gallows humor, or the humor expressed by morgue workers or coroners. Timmy Treadwell was so tragic yet so absurd, the only sane yet sad response is laughter.

Thank you, thank you, Carl N. Brown.

I feel so much less guilty now.

But I can't stop laughing.

Now, about Siegfried and Roy....

Here, kitty kitty kitty.

 

[Republic of Cambridge]

LaEscopeta,

If you drive to a busy intersection and the stop lights don't work and you stop, look, and then cross that intersection, does it mean you didn't understand the danger?

I think Treadwell knew there was danger but it became a marketing ploy. It became a method of demonstrating that he was a wild trapper like Jim Bridger in Wyoming. The fact is he was not. This was glossed over stuff for suburban consumption.

 

[zeroskillz]

That is incredibly good writing, and an amazing story. Thanks for posting it, Preacherman.

+1

 

[JohnL2]

I watched the movie in a college english class freshman year. Needless to say my rational approach that treating a wild animal like your pet is irresposible, idotic and dangerous only got me a mediocre grade on my paper. The professor didn't seem to understand. She couldn't get off his "Beautiful connection" with bears.

Yeah, a lot of yahoos in academia are like that. There's nothing wrong with indulging yourself in the "romance" of the wild. In human society you can get away with that. But remember, mother nature cares nothing for romance. It is brutal out there.
Just the other day I was on the long off-ramp coming off the highway and a hawk flew low right over me with something in its talons. I could see the long tail of its catch bobbing in the wind. My only thoughts were "Cool", and "Good eating fella".

Describing the remains, Ellis sounds like he's struggling for the right words, something to mitigate the horror. "It was way past the initial stages," he tells me. "One or more bears had time to eat most of two bodies and cache the remains. There was no clothing attached to any part. There wasn't much left of anything. We could not tell male from female." When I ask for more detail, he repeats, "We could not tell male from female." Then he says, after a pause, "One part had a watch on it."

Extremely sobering.

 

[rantingredneck]

I actually read something of Treadwell's exploits a year or so prior to his death. Not sure where I read it. I said then that he was on the short list to be "naturally selected" out of the gene pool. Sad to say I was correct in that assessment. As others have said, it's a jungle out there....

...behave appropriately and know your place in the food chain once you step out of civilization.

 

[2bigfeet]

"Even his friends worried—they thought he should carry bear spray. But after blasting one charging bear, Cupcake, with pepper spray in 1995, Treadwell refused."

-quote from above article in "Outside" magazine.

Does anyone know what the name was of the bear that killed him?

 

[Anteater1717]

Personally I think he was simply an idiot. Few things anger me more than when people don’t respect the power of animals much larger and stronger than them. He thought bears were cute and cuddly and didn’t respect the things massive power. He ended up paying the ultimate price for his stupidity. It’s just like how when Steve Erwin didn’t respect the power of the bat ray that he was riding. He too paid the price people like both of them think animals are cute and cuddly, predictable, and don’t get pissed off every once in a while.

P.S.It’s not smart to go to Alaska and go outdoors without protection

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Aug 2005 to Aug 2007, and we are still discussing Tim Treadwell.

The professor who could not get over Treadwell's "beautiful
connection" with the bears---Treadwell had an un-beautiful
dis-connection with reality about bears, himself and nature.
That same lack of understanding of nature and man's place
in nature is the driving force of the ALFs and ELFs. Combine
delusion and self-righteousness and you have a deadly
situation. And what was the brand of Treadwell's watch that
got swallowed by a bear and recovered in working order?

 

[PowderKeg]

Does anyone know what the name was of the bear that killed him?

According to Bearman's site, the bush pilot that came to pick them up thought the bear that killed them was one that had been seen before, and Treadwell had named it "Ollie, the big old grumpy bear". He should've added "hungry" to the name....

Bearman's goes into great detail about the incident,as well as interpolating what might have happened the night of the attack and how it played out.

http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/Tim_Treadwell.html

Very interesting, albeit somewhat gruesome, reading.

 

[Leanwolf]

2BIGFEET- "Does anyone know what the name was of the bear that killed him?"


"Muffy." Or was it "Tuffy?"

L.W.

 

[2bigfeet]

Wondering if maybe it was Cup Cake... you know, the one he pepper sprayed a few years back. Figured bears have memories like elephants. (shoulda put a smiley after my post).

 

[Anteater1717]

At least the bear got a good meal.

 

[kungfuhippie]

damn dirty hippies. I bet they made the bears sick from eating them.

 

[tmajors]

Glad someone bumped this. I've never read the story. It's like Ghost and Darkness with bears instead of lions.