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On the way back from the outhouse… Originally posted 4/06

May 27, 2006 @ 10:30 pm by Moose

Sounds like the start of a joke but Harold Cerda may beg to differ with you, seeing where he had a run in with a Black Bear.
[quote] Harold Cerda had just left an outhouse on a southern Colorado ranch when a bear swatted him to the ground and chased him to his car, where he discovered the animal had also eaten his lunch.
“He sent me a good 10 or 15 feet,” Cerda told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday. “I’m used to hard falls because I used to ride bulls a lot. It’s pretty much the hardest I’ve been hit.”[/quote]
Getting swatted a good 10 feet and then chased back to your car has got to be an experience. Then on top of that to discover the bear also ate your lunch too. Talk about a bad day at least he hadn’t become lunch.
[quote] Seraphin said the bear was apparently walking toward the outhouse as Cerda emerged.
“I think what happened was I surprised him, so he hit me,” Cerda said. He said the blow knocked him 10 to 15 feet.
After a few seconds, he spotted the bear a short distance away and started walking to his car. So did the bear.
“He started picking up his pace, and so did I,” Cerda said.
Once inside, he started the engine to get the electric windows up and noticed the remnants of his lunch. As the bear sniffed around the windows and chewed on the tires, Cerda snapped photos with his cell phone for a few minutes and drove away.[/quote]
I don’t believe I would of stuck around to snap a few photos for the old photo album.
How big a bear was it?
[quote] He guessed the cinnamon-colored black bear was anywhere from 150 to 500 pounds and nearly 61/2 feet tall when standing[/quote]
Like I said before its hard for folks to estimate the size of a bear and that’s a classic example of a very broad description. Well I don’t suspect there are many that read this blog that still have an outhouse but at my hunting club we do ( a 2 seater no less) and it will make me look twice before I open the door.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002960115_webbear28.html