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man....i would have got in there and fought that bitch.........bro.... -
this comes to mind
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Looks like a frustrated woman with PMS was there.Nothing cool as far as a car goes, but if you want photos of your ride...I can handle that. Check out my Facebook page if you're bored.Comment
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How in the hell did a bear get locked in a car?Comment
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I can hear the call to the ins. comany now. LOL. Do I have Grizzly insurance."You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating Fruit Loops on your front porch"Comment
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I googled Grizzly trapped in car:
This happened to one of the land owners near Waterton. The body of the car was unscratched...
Last Monday morning he came out to find the inside of his 18 month old Toyota Sequoia trashed.
A grizzly bear had somehow got a door open (easy considering the way the handles are) and once inside got trapped when the door shut behind him. Probably the wind.
The Toyota was a platinum edition, all the door panels were ripped off, the headliner torn to pieces, all headrests, the leather seats, the dash shredded. The steering column was twisted sideways. Two of the six airbags went off, the other four the bear ripped to pieces.
You can imagine a trapped grizzly being hit with an airbag in an enclosed space must have figured he was in for the fight of his life. When the bear ripped off the door panels he clawed all the wiring harnesses out. Toyota figures every wire he pulled or clawed at resulted in bells, voices or sparks. The head mechanic at Calgary Toyota doubted if they had the expertise to put it back together.
To add insult to injury the bear took a big dump in the back of the SUV and then broke out the rear window. Fish and wildlife officers have inspected the damage and figure it was a 3 year old grizzly. The vehicle has been written off, cost new over 70,000, they stopped counting repair costs at 60,000!Comment
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And here's a news story:
If being trapped in a car during rush hour sometimes seems unbearable, just imagine how a young bruin felt when it got trapped in Tim Hamilton's SUV.
It happened back in October when the animal opened an unlocked door on Hamilton's Toyota Sequoia, which was parked outside his cabin near Waterton Lakes National Park, and climbed inside.
Nobody knows for sure how it became trapped but the winds are typically strong in that part of southern Alberta and the prevailing theory is that a gust blew the door shut.
Experts suspect the bear was only in the vehicle for a few minutes before finally crashing through the rear window to freedom. But in that time it did $60,000 worth of damage and the SUV was a complete write-off. (see photos of the damage below)
Pictures of the vehicular mauling have been posted and re-posted on websites and blogs around the world for months, but the Calgary businessman and avid outdoorsman has been reluctant to speak publicly about them until now.
"I didn't want people to portray it as an aggressive bear or a mean bear or a dangerous bear," Hamilton explained about why he wanted to keep the incident quiet at the time.
"I'm kind of pro-bear."
Hamilton said he and his wife frequently go to the cabin for the weekend, but he noticed something wrong when he was getting ready to make the drive back to Calgary on that Monday morning.
It was still dark, and he could see a mess in the SUV's back seat as he approached. At first he thought his wife had put garbage there to be taken back to the city, but then he saw the smashed back window.
Bears — usually black bears — are common in the area but Hamilton said his neighbours had been seeing a young grizzly in the area. They guessed it was about two years old and had recently been given the boot by its mother.
At first, Hamilton thought the bear had gone in through the back window, but he realized that was unlikely. Then he noticed his garage door was open and the light was on. He called his neighbour with a rifle in case the bear was still nearby.
"It had never been in the garage," he recalled. "It turned out that the bear had either bit or stepped on the garage door opener when it was in our vehicle."
Realizing then that the bruin was long gone, Hamilton finally had time to take an inventory of the damage.
"It panicked and went crazy and deployed most of the airbags and ripped out the seats, and the dashboard and even bent the steering column," he said.
Oh, and one other thing — Hamilton may not be able to answer the age-old question about whether a bear poops in the woods, but he knows for sure they'll do it in an SUV.
Hamilton said he could tell by the prints in the dust on his SUV that the animal hadn't forced his way inside. He said it appeared it had simply been leaning against the vehicle, pressing its snout against the windows, and that its paw slid down the side and hooked a door handle.
"It was clearly a misadventure on the bear's part. I mean, there's not even a scratch on the door outside," Hamilton said.
"Absolutely no one was hurt and the bear got the biggest start of all."
An expert from the University of Calgary examined teeth and claw marks in the SUV and believed it was indeed a grizzly, Hamilton said. He said there was just a tiny speck of blood on one of the airbags, so he doesn't believe the bear was hurt.
On some blogs that display pictures of his SUV, the story has grown. Hamilton said he saw one that suggested he was inside the vehicle at the time. Others claim the vehicle is on display for promotional purposes, which he said isn't true.
Hamilton can't say for certain how pictures of the damage got on the Internet. He said he and his wife took some photos, neighbours took some others, and that a few were likely snapped at a dealership in Calgary where the vehicle ended up.
He said his insurance company, coincidentally, is the same one that has a TV commercial about a bear that destroys a vehicle. Needless to say, they didn't give him any trouble when he filed his claim.
Hamilton said one of his neighbours asked wildlife officials if they planned to trap the animal.
"They kind of smiled and said this poor bear will never go around another vehicle or cottage as long as he lives," Hamilton said. "He's probably still running as we speak."Comment
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not quite as bad as hitting a deer at 70 mph with a tahoe...
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Holy shit!Originally posted by asphaltjunkie View Postnot quite as bad as hitting a deer at 70 mph with a tahoe...
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Or in a trailblazer...Comment
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