# Polar Bear Attack - Man Survives - Be warned - extremely graphic pics of injuries **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785 "2009-02-07T04:17:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/1 "2009-02-07T04:17:55Z")
[Wow… a bear will mess you up.](http://www.freedomwriter.com/issue35/ak34.htm) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/2 "2009-02-07T04:39:49Z")
You’re not wrong about the graphic nature of the photos astro. :eek: Holy shit, what a friggin mess. That bloke has one hell of a lot of recovering to do. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/3 "2009-02-07T04:39:49Z")
Whoa. Are they actually going to try to save that foot? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/4 "2009-02-07T04:41:57Z")
The foot is fine. It’s the ankle I’d be worried about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/5 "2009-02-07T04:51:41Z")
That seems rather odd to post such graphic pictures without any sort of explanation. I mean I understand how the guy got f’ed up, but how did the bear end up missing a bunch of its ass? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/6 "2009-02-07T04:53:55Z")
Snopes already covered this. The last pic is someone with a gunshot wound to the ankle, not a wound from a bear attack. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/7 "2009-02-07T05:04:17Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Snopes already covered this. The last pic is someone with a gunshot wound to the ankle, not a wound from a bear attack. [I did wonder how the hell the bear accomplished that without a pickaxe.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/polarbear.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/8 "2009-02-07T05:22:26Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Snopes already covered this. The last pic is someone with a gunshot wound to the ankle, not a wound from a bear attack. I have a sudden urge to buy a pair of Kevlar sneakers. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/9 "2009-02-07T05:59:25Z")
That blown-apart ankle has been circulating the internet for a long time, now. I’ve always understood it was an accidental shotgun blast. And - yeesh. I’d always heard degloving scalp injuries were a common side-effect of bear maulings, but that’s just awful - his face looks pretty messed up from the brief glimpse we get of it. Any information on how long all this took before somebody found a gun? Hard to imagine what must’ve been running through his mind. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/10 "2009-02-07T06:11:32Z")
> [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](#): > > Hard to imagine what must’ve been running through his mind. A bear? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/11 "2009-02-07T06:25:15Z")
> [@bathsheba](#): > > A bear? I certainly think it was beginning to sink in at least. ---
**Author:** ![terrymiff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@terrymiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terrymiff)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/12 "2009-02-07T11:00:18Z")
Payback for the Global Warming reducing the ice sheet and making it harder to catch seals. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/13 "2009-02-07T13:09:08Z")
> [@terrymiff](#): > > Payback for the Global Warming reducing the ice sheet and making it harder to catch seals. Yep. Polar bears, desperate and starving, are arming themselves and shooting humans…in the ankles. Just wait until they learn to aim. That’ll show us. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/14 "2009-02-07T13:33:00Z")
> [@bathsheba](#): > > A bear? Best gruesome laugh today. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/15 "2009-02-07T22:22:33Z")
I’ve been dealing with a moderately-torn Achilles tendon. After seeing that ankle, I’m no longer complaining. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/16 "2009-02-07T23:06:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’ve been dealing with a moderately-torn Achilles tendon. > > After seeing that ankle, I’m no longer complaining. Really? His achilles looks to be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/17 "2009-02-07T23:50:23Z")
Between grizzlies and polar bears, I think I would worry more about living near the latter than the former. Polar bears are eerily good at problem-solving, and seem to have a higher IQ than grizzlies. They’ve been known to use their claws to pry out the windshields from trucks on the North Slope because they know that there may be food inside. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polar-bear-attack-man-survives-be-warned-extremely-graphic-pics-of-injuries/484785/18 "2009-02-07T23:58:10Z")
prying things out from under ice… prying things out from under glass… not that big a jump, but impressive none the less. polar bears are also very good and getting into houses.