Predator Attacks
The June issue of American Hunter posted two side-by-side stories of predator attacks on people. One happened in Utah on Jun 17, 2007 and the other happened in Arizona, in March 2007.
The Utah attack involved a black bear that killed an eleven year-old boy. There have been other bear attacks in the same general area, and Utah is believed to be importing trouble bears from Yellowstone. In this case the boy’s mother is suing the forest service for $2m and the Utah DWR for $550k. The mother says it is a wrongful death case because the bear was reported in the morning of the same day and nothing was done about it.
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The Arizona case involved a 10 year-old boy who was attacked by a mountain lion when the family stopped for lunch. As the cougar approached, the mother yelled at the kids to stay still, so while the boy was still, the cougar chomped on the boy’s leg. The grandmother wasn’t slow in grabbing a pistol and in shooting the lion which died a few feet away.
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Now that predators are given higher priority than people, these types of encounters are becoming more common.
