BOY SCOUT LEADER MAULED BY BEAR

In New Jersey, 50-year-old Boy Scout Leader Christopher Petronino was taking some scouts on a hike Sunday afternoon. He entered a cave, disturbing a hibernating bear that took him by surprise, grabbed his foot, and knocked him down. Petronino fought back and yelled at three of his young scouts to find help as the bear bit his leg and shoulders. He struck the bear upside the head with a rock hammer and curled up into a fetal position, covering his face with a sweatshirt. Unable to relay their location to 911 dispatchers, the scouts left food at the mouth of the cave to coax the “huffing” bear out of its hideout. A barking dog with the hikers eventually scared the bear out of the cave and up the hill. Petronino – who had visited the cave on numerous occasions since the early 1980s without a single bear encounter – emerged from the cave with non-life threatening injuries and called police with their exact location. He was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. He had additional scrapes to his head. No scouts were injured.
* Well, heck, he made out better than Leo DiCaprio.
* Will the scouts get a badge for being totally useless?
* The dog should at least get a sash or something.
* The guy curled up into a fetal position? Wow, way to man up.
* I can relate to the bear. I’m grouchy when I first wake up too.
* I don’t get the non-life threatening injuries. When a bear is biting you, your life is being threatened.
* I understand why the scouts just left food at the mouth of the cave. I wouldn’t go in there either.
* Think of it: This could have been Bear Grylls and President Obama the other night.
* You know what they say: Sometimes you get the bear. Sometimes the bear gets you.