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Teacher Crashes into Bear

Posted on the September 12th, 2008 under News by papabear

A teacher in Missoula, Montana, USA, crashed into a black bear while riding his bicycle to school. Luckily it was not Papa Bear. If not, this entry would not be posted as it would hurt real bad if I were hit by a man and a bicycle traveling at about 40 kph!

That’s how fast he was going before he spotted the black bear. The poor bear did not have time to get out of the way and that speeding teacher could not stop in time. May be somebody should start to design better brakes for bicycle. How about ABS for bicycle?

He tumbled over the handlebars, his helmet hit the bear’s back and the two went cartwheeling down the road. – Teacher OK after crashing into bear on a bicycle

Just imagine that! Then the bear rolled over his head and if not for the helmet that was crashed by the weight of the bear, he would have to walk around with a flatten head.

I guess the bear was in total shock as he could only scratched the teacher’s back before scampering up a hill above the road. If I were that bear, I would have given the teacher more than just some scratches for him to remember the accident.

That poor bear must have had the most shocking moment of his life. They should put a sign to watch out for bears over that road so that people would be more careful over there.

Full story here.

*Picture: Jim Litz, has a broken bike helmet and bruised ribs to show for the 25-mile-per-hour collision with a 300 hundred pound black bear Monday morning, Sept. 8, 2008 while riding his bike to work in Missoula, Mont. (AP Photo/The Missoulian, Michael Gallacher)

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