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Thread #28639   Message #356736
Posted By: Ebbie
13-Dec-00 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Boers Have Got My Daddy / ...Bears?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Daddy's been taken by bears
McGrath, in Alaska we have some REAL bear stories and sometimes that title fits.

In most of the cases I've heard of it's a hunter who was carted off/killed by a bear. Sometimes it's surmised that the hunter was making the call of an abandoned fawn.

I remember in 1990 or so, a 40ish hunter on Chichagof Island was hauled off up a hill and killed by a brown bear. His hunting partner heard him calling for help but he was dead before his buddy could get to them.

They say not many brown bears/grizzlies will eat human beings (it's different with black bears) but there is the occasional odd one.

But I suppose the song title you found doesn't refer to anything that grisly? (Pun intended!)

Ebbie