# Don't mess with troubled teens!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 1, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986 "2004-05-01T14:17:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/1 "2004-05-01T14:17:16Z")
From [this article](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4840163/).
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> ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 15-year-old boy on a wilderness expedition for emotionally troubled youths woke up to find a 400-pound brown bear with a bad attitude sitting at his feet.
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> After trying unsuccessfully to back out of the tent, the boy was bitten in the forearm and decided to fight back, punching the bear with his left hand a half-dozen times, Alaska State Trooper Adam Benson said Monday…[snip to the end]“I think he is the biggest, baddest thing in the woods. He punched the bear,” Prysunka said.[/snip]
There’s a bit more in the article. The kid got a couple more licks in, so did the bear.
He’s been treated and sent home (kid, not bear) so it’s a good ending.
Except for the bear. :dubious:
Way to go! Bear knuckle boxing! That is a bad-ass kid!
I would’ve been bear breakfast. 😃
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/2 "2004-05-01T16:19:22Z")
In the future, I think that bear will stick to eating Cub Scouts.
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### Author:  [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/3 "2004-05-01T18:13:39Z")
No need for those unbearable puns, **Snooooopy**.
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/4 "2004-05-01T18:54:24Z")
It takes some big, brass balls to punch a bear. I dunno how he could be out hiking with em swinging around like that.
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/5 "2004-05-01T20:55:30Z")
If only he had the right to bear arms…
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/6 "2004-05-01T22:07:29Z")
> [@The Man With The Golden Gun](#):
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> If only he had the right to bear arms…
Be glad the constitution denied the right to arm bears…
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/7 "2004-05-02T00:12:25Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#):
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> Be glad the constitution denied the right to arm bears…
I don’t see anything in the constitution that specifically denies bears the right to arms. I mean, if they’re citizen and all…
Hunting season may get a little complicated, but if a bear wants his very own shotgun…
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/8 "2004-05-02T02:26:44Z")
What the story failed to mention was that the kid was naked during his altercation with the bear… and everyone knows it’s better to to run with a **bear behind**.
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### Author:  [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/9 "2004-05-02T05:09:57Z")
Heh. Reminds me of [this story](http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol68/104/news/news1.html) which happened a year or so ago at my university.
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> The report said that one of the two suspects wielded a 5- to 7-inch steak knife. When he was confronted, **the student punched the knife-wielding suspect in the face** , forcing him to drop the knife.
There are obviously people out there with a lot more guts than me.
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-troubled-teens/242986/10 "2004-05-02T10:31:42Z")
Ironically, the boy had been sent on the expedition for a string of run-ins with animals; he previously had been caught tickling deer, giving chipmunks noogies and scaring fish by smooshing his head up against the aquarium glass.