Man with cane wins fight with grizzly
June 9 (UPI) -- A 78-year-old Canadian man and his son were recovering Tuesday from a rural grizzly bear attack won by the father swinging his cane. ...
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EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- A 78-year-old Canadian man and his son were recovering Tuesday from a rural grizzly bear attack won by the father swinging his cane.
Tom Wanyandie, 78, and his son James, who is in his 30s, were in a forest near Prairie Creek in west-central Alberta Saturday looking for moose antlers, the Edmonton Journal reported Tuesday.
The pair spotted a grizzly cub scrambling up a tree and realized the mother wouldn't be far away so they began to run.
The son fired at the bear with his rifle once, but said he wasn't sure if he hit it. It grabbed him by the arm and tossed him "like a rag doll," his father said.
The elder Wanyandie got the bear to release his son's arm by jamming his cane down the bear's throat.
"Tom tackled the bear with his walking stick, and beat it on the head and the nose, and yelled at it, and it backed off," his son told the newspaper.
The injured men made it back to their truck and drove to a highway where there was a cell phone signal and called for help, they said.
The father was treated and released, but his son was still hospitalized with a mangled arm, the report said.
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