A bear destroys the sea kayak despite
woman’s pleas. Mary Maley was on a solo sea kayaking trip in Alaska when she
encountered the unruly bear.
Mary Maley spoke too soon when she told
a bear, “Thank you for leaving my kayak alone.” Because moments later, after
she pepper sprayed the bear, it did everything but leave her sea kayak alone.
We’d guess it probably didn’t
appreciate the bear spray.
Maley was on a solo sea kayaking trip
from Ketchikan to Petersburg in Alaska when she met up with the bear during a
stopover in Berg Bay in the Wrangell District.
To say the least, Maley was hysterical
in this hilarious encounter that didn’t end well for the sea kayak:
Approaching a bear is always
ill-advised and using bear spray should be a last resort, but several
commenters on YouTube suggested that Maley ought to have thrown a stick or rock
at the bear rather than talk to it, since it had no idea what she was saying. But
what she said was sidesplitting funny.
“No, get away from the kayak,” she
implored. “Get away from that kayak. Come here. Come on. Stop it, bear. Stop
it! Bear! Bear! Bear, you’re breaking it, you’re breaking my kayak. Why are you
doing that? Why are you breaking my kayak? …
“Please stop. Gosh darn it. Why are you
doing that? Bear, please stop. Please stop bear. It’s the end of September, why
are you here? You’re supposed to be asleep…Please stop breaking my things. It’s
not even food. It doesn’t even taste good. It’s just plastic. Bear please stop.
Bear please stop.”
But it didn’t stop. The bear kept
gnawing on the sea kayak for another 10 minutes or so, after which
it finally wandered off, apparently satisfied it had avenged the bear
spraying.
Maley, worried she would become
stranded, swam out to a sailing vessel anchored in the bay and contacted a
German ship, presumably from a radio aboard the sailing vessel. The Caledonia
came to her rescue, picking her up and transporting her to Wrangell,
“where I am trying to repair my kayak now.”
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