Odds you will be killed by a bear this year : 1 in 6
July 18th, 2008 Posted in UncategorizedI read this article hoping to find out how likely I am to be killed by a bear this year. It wouldn’t tell me. Because they don’t want widespread panic spreading across the nation like a wildfire.
Ironic, isn’t it? because wildfires are one of our best weapons against bears.
The closest I could come to finding the information I needed after an exhaustive 3 or 4 click search was a traitorous bearrorist lover who claimed there are only about 100 bear deaths in the last 100 years in North America. Where do you think he got those numbers? You guessed it. BEARS!
The actual number of people in North America who are killed each year by bears is about 678,000. By my math this means you have about a 1 in 6 chance of having a paw the size of a manhole cover swipe your face clean off before your next birthday.
These numbers go up dramatically for woodsy hiking hippies. When going into the bear infested woods (any woods) you are virtually guaranteeing contact with a bear. The odds of surviving once you have made visual contact with a bear in the wild is 1.23%, according to National Geographic. If you must go into a forest, it is highly reccomended to do so by tunneling 10 feet underground for the entire duration.
You can lower your odds of dying to bears each year by following the tips and strategy outlined elsewhere on this website.