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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,839 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:08 PM Feb 2021

Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.

“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”

Stevens, her brother Erik and his girlfriend had taken snowmobiles into the wilderness Feb. 13 to stay at his yurt, located about 20 miles northwest of Haines, in southeast Alaska.

Her brother heard the screaming and went out to the outhouse, about 150 feet away from the yurt. There, he found Shannon tending to her wound. They at first thought she had been bitten by a squirrel or a mink, or something small.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alaska-woman-using-outhouse-attacked-by-bear-from-below/ar-BB1dPJIq?li=BBnb7Kz

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Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear, from below (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
My mom told me never poop on a bear. nt Binkie The Clown Feb 2021 #1
I had that Roger Miller 45 I think underpants Feb 2021 #18
Talk about a pain in the ass. Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #2
This will be on Discovery Channel later, right? dchill Feb 2021 #3
Tonight! More people in the miserable cold! underpants Feb 2021 #17
You gotta know they did! dchill Feb 2021 #27
2 questions.... OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #4
At one park I visited, the outhouses were on a slope csziggy Feb 2021 #9
They like outhouses and portapotties BannonsLiver Feb 2021 #11
Well, that's unusual. Admittedly, I always envision snakes coming up (which does happen) but hlthe2b Feb 2021 #5
Well if she didn't have to poop on the way in, she probably did on the way out soothsayer Feb 2021 #6
Au contraire--I'll bet she is constipated for a week. panader0 Feb 2021 #14
Don't ya just hate it when shit like this happens... Politicalgolfer Feb 2021 #7
Wait -- so the Pope's NOT Catholic?? soothsayer Feb 2021 #8
Yeah! And what was that bear doing in the pool? underpants Feb 2021 #19
That's where the honey is. dchill Feb 2021 #28
And to think I used to be worried about alligators and snakes. Buns_of_Fire Feb 2021 #10
I thought the joke was Jerry2144 Feb 2021 #12
I was hoping this was about Sarah Palin... Totally Tunsie Feb 2021 #13
So ... disaster? dweller Feb 2021 #15
Heyooooo! lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #23
Yikes!!! mrs_p Feb 2021 #16
In most of the world it's pigs. hunter Feb 2021 #20
Alaska has bears....Australia has snakes and spiders. Top and Bottom after our Bottoms irisblue Feb 2021 #21
Try to pee on me and I'm going to bite you in the ass too. Solly Mack Feb 2021 #22
All the good jokes have already been taken SoonerPride Feb 2021 #24
... handmade34 Feb 2021 #25
Bite me lpbk2713 Feb 2021 #26

underpants

(182,728 posts)
17. Tonight! More people in the miserable cold!
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:24 PM
Feb 2021

Still better than the History channel - Tonight! On the History Channel - Did Confederate ghosts influence Hitler?

csziggy

(34,133 posts)
9. At one park I visited, the outhouses were on a slope
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:21 PM
Feb 2021

The front was at the ground level for the parking lot, the back had basically a basement where the poop was collected. That place had a service that came in to empty the chemical toilets and that lower level gave them easy access.

Maybe at the yurt location in the story, they did the same thing, but the lower level became accessible to the bear. It would make a decent shelter - heck, maybe the poor thing was hibernating and rudely awoken by the woman.

hlthe2b

(102,192 posts)
5. Well, that's unusual. Admittedly, I always envision snakes coming up (which does happen) but
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:16 PM
Feb 2021

never really considered a large mammal.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,173 posts)
10. And to think I used to be worried about alligators and snakes.
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:21 PM
Feb 2021

Oh, and the occasional brown recluse spider.

There's just so many woodland creatures out there to bite your butt. I'm never gonna poop again.

Jerry2144

(2,093 posts)
12. I thought the joke was
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 02:23 PM
Feb 2021

I thought the joke was, "Does a bear shit in the woods?" But now I guess it should be "Yo Mama shits on bears in the woods."

mrs_p

(3,014 posts)
16. Yikes!!!
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:22 PM
Feb 2021

This is definitely one of my fears - being attacked by a bear when I’m on a BIFFY with my panties down.

hunter

(38,309 posts)
20. In most of the world it's pigs.
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:27 PM
Feb 2021

I knew a guy who got his ass licked by a pig in New Guinea.

Which explained why his neighbors mocked the fancy outhouse he'd built...


irisblue

(32,950 posts)
21. Alaska has bears....Australia has snakes and spiders. Top and Bottom after our Bottoms
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 03:31 PM
Feb 2021

(you can look up the spider in the toilet stories yourself, I'm already traumatized.)
source-Australian woman finds four snakes inside her blocked toilet tank
By Nectar Gan, CNN
Updated 2:50 AM EDT, Fri August 28, 2020

snip-"Australian woman who had difficulty flushing her toilet was shocked to find four snakes coiled up inside the cistern.

Sofie Pearson, 25, who lives on a cane farm in North Queensland, told CNN affiliate 7News that when she went to her bathroom last Sunday, she had to push down hard on the button to get the toilet to flush.

"I was a bit confused," she told 7News. "So I figured I'd just pull the top off and check what the issue was."


and here she is showing how cool and collected she is...
snip"-"I sort of looked at them for a second and thought ... that's not right," she told 7News."

more at source

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