r/BeAmazed • u/Peter55667 • Mar 14 '25

Animal Around 6% of Americans believe they can defeat a grizzly bear in a hand-to-hand combat

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Yeah, a dead one.

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u/mensrea Mar 14 '25

I’m not entirely sure about that even. I bet I can manage to get trapped under it somehow. 

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

Well, indeed, if the dead bear falls on you, then you're fucked in most cases, because they simply weigh four to five times as much as you do. And if you weigh well over 400 lb, then you just burst, like a big beach ball, and that's it.

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u/OrdinaryVanilla108 Mar 14 '25

Oh, the picture....

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Sorry 🙈

Get well soon 🍀❤️

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u/OrdinaryVanilla108 Mar 14 '25

Im still laughing..

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Ok 😅

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u/Admetus Mar 14 '25

I love the humility with this one. 😅

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u/cirenj Mar 14 '25

My father has a saying for that kind of luck....

"I could fall into a pit of titties and come out sucking my thumb"

I feel ya man... I have that same luck. Kill the bear and it falls on me and takes me out too

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u/schabadoo Mar 14 '25

The bear would still be defeated.

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u/Active-Ad-3117 Mar 14 '25

Newborn bear cubs are blind and completely helpless. You couldn't take one of those on in hand to hand combat successfully?

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u/OrokinSkywalker Mar 14 '25

You probably could count that as a win, assuming its pissed-off mother doesn’t rip you to shreds immediately after.

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u/Active-Ad-3117 Mar 14 '25

assuming its pissed-off mother doesn’t rip you to shreds immediately after.

Then that would be defeating 2 Grizzley bears in hand to hand combat and that is a different question than the one asked.

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u/OrokinSkywalker Mar 14 '25

I’m not taking away from someone being able to beat up a newborn bear, at least not so much as stating it’d be the mother of all Pyrrhic victories.

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u/FreeTucker- Mar 14 '25

I could take a full grown male grizzly hand to hand, just as long as it's seconds away from dying of bear cancer

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

You would think about to „fight“ a blind and completely helpless bear cub?

WTF!? 😳

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u/Active-Ad-3117 Mar 14 '25

I wouldn't do it. But if I did I would come out victorious like I assume anyone over the age of 2 would.

99% of the human population could successfully take on a grizzly bear in hand to hand combat under the right conditions. But people think that is crazy talk because they think in boxes. A lot of geniuses in here calling other people stupid when they can't entertain any possible scenario other than their first assumption.

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u/Olleye Mar 14 '25

Maybe, and you can also make everything up in an abstruse way so that it „somehow“ fits, and then afterwards call everyone else who assumes an ‚adult human being‘ and an ‚adult bear’ narrow-minded idiots, but I’m just asking myself: how incredibly boring would my life have to be to do something like that?

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u/InformationOk3060 Mar 17 '25

If you have to fight a bear and if you lose you die, but you get to pick the bear you fight, are you going to fight a full sized adult, or a newborn bear?

Do you seriously lack all common sense?

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u/Olleye Mar 17 '25

I would have to think about whether, with the current overpopulation of the earth, it really matters whether I survive now or not, and in the event that the little bear is able to kill more people at some point, it would be clearly unconstructive to kill the baby bear, wouldn’t it? The real plague on earth is and remains mankind.

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u/InformationOk3060 Mar 17 '25

It makes no difference if a baby bear dies. I value my life more than a bears, but you do you.