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edbermac

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Fri May 4, 2018, 07:14 PM May 2018

Man tries to take selfie with wounded bear, it does not go well.

A man was mauled to death by a wounded bear this week when he foolishly tried to take a photograph alongside the apex predator — the third wild animal-related selfie fatality in this region of India in less than a year, according to reports. The victim, identified by local media as Prabhu Bhatara, was driving a group of people home from a wedding in an SUV when he stopped to relieve himself in a forest area in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Wednesday evening, the Hindustan Times reported. Bhatara then spotted an injured bear and for some reason, decided to take a selfie with the creature, according to the report. When the man approached, the bear’s fight instinct immediately kicked in.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/05e04d7e-1ae0-3fd5-8a4f-5f8e8aa7578b/ss_man-mauled-to-death-by-bear.html

Well I wouldn’t call him the winner of the 2018 Darwin Award just yet, but he’s definitely in the running.

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Man tries to take selfie with wounded bear, it does not go well. (Original Post) edbermac May 2018 OP
He is in the running bottomofthehill May 2018 #1
I clicked on the link and there is a video of this. The article says the man "died skylucy May 2018 #2
read comments at the link. LOL! pansypoo53219 May 2018 #3

skylucy

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2. I clicked on the link and there is a video of this. The article says the man "died
Fri May 4, 2018, 07:25 PM
May 2018

on the spot". He did die right where he was attacked, but the video is about 2 minutes long and the poor man did not die instantly. It is horrible to watch. I know that was a very stupid thing to do, but I can't make any jokes about what happened to him.

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