{"id":1558,"date":"2018-06-10T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:09:38","slug":"man-decides-to-take-a-selfie-with-an-injured-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Man decides to take a selfie with an injured Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India. Not smart. Bad result. Sound like he may of had a couple of cocktails. This from the AllOutdoor website with the under one minute video mentioned below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As if to prove that Americans aren\u2019t the only idiots when it comes to wildlife interaction, a man in India was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bear-kills-man-trying-to-click-selfie-with-it-third-such-death-in-odisha\/story-FjOuM94Is0DDZiKJoEzWsJ.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker(&#39;send&#39;, &#39;event&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bear-kills-man-trying-to-click-selfie-with-it-third-such-death-in-odisha\/story-FjOuM94Is0DDZiKJoEzWsJ.html&#39;, &#39;reportedly &#39;);\">reportedly <\/a>mauled to death when he tried to take a \u201cselfie\u201d photo of himself with a bear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bear-kills-man-trying-to-click-selfie-with-it-third-such-death-in-odisha\/story-FjOuM94Is0DDZiKJoEzWsJ.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker(&#39;send&#39;, &#39;event&#39;, &#39;outbound-article&#39;, &#39;https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bear-kills-man-trying-to-click-selfie-with-it-third-such-death-in-odisha\/story-FjOuM94Is0DDZiKJoEzWsJ.html&#39;, &#39;the article&#39;);\">the article<\/a>, Prabhu Bhatara was returning from a wedding with some others when they stopped for a potty break. Spying an injured bear, he decided it would be a good idea to get close to it and take a photo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Although the others in the vehicle cautioned him against doing so, Bhatara came perilously close to the bear which chased him and fatally mauled him. \u201cBhatara died on the spot,\u201d <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/i.viglink.com\/?key=9de71e6c298fd9cb002323453ea3821f&amp;insertId=eb0ee317c8b6f36355a1256028015739&amp;type=CD&amp;mid=undefined&amp;exp=60%3ACI1C55A%3A5&amp;libId=jh8j64mu01013rno000DA1d4a32gb1cjem&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alloutdoor.com%2F2018%2F05%2F10%2Fman-dies-trying-take-selfie-injured-bear%2F%3Futm_source%3DContextly%26utm_medium%3DChannelEmail%26utm_campaign%3DKnives%2B%2526%2BMultitools%26utm_content%3DPopular%252BTrending&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownells.com%2Fsearch%2Findex.htm%3Fk%3Dforest&amp;title=Man%20Dies%20Trying%20to%20Take%20Selfie%20With%20Injured%20Bear%20-%20AllOutdoor.com&amp;txt=%3Cspan%3Eforest%3C%2Fspan%3E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link added by VigLink\">forest<\/a> ranger Dhanurjaya Mohapatra said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is a video, which I will embed below\u2026 use caution, because it shows the bear chewing and shaking this guy. There was quite a crowd there, but I <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/i.viglink.com\/?key=9de71e6c298fd9cb002323453ea3821f&amp;insertId=1062bf2700d84262e5e9546bc5217b35&amp;type=CD&amp;mid=undefined&amp;exp=60%3ACI1C55A%3A5&amp;libId=jh8j64mu01013rno000DA1d4a32gb1cjem&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alloutdoor.com%2F2018%2F05%2F10%2Fman-dies-trying-take-selfie-injured-bear%2F%3Futm_source%3DContextly%26utm_medium%3DChannelEmail%26utm_campaign%3DKnives%2B%2526%2BMultitools%26utm_content%3DPopular%252BTrending&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownells.com%2Fsearch%2Findex.htm%3Fk%3Dsaw&amp;title=Man%20Dies%20Trying%20to%20Take%20Selfie%20With%20Injured%20Bear%20-%20AllOutdoor.com&amp;txt=%3Cspan%3Esaw%3C%2Fspan%3E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link added by VigLink\">saw<\/a> only one person attempt to help the hapless victim. If the entire crowd had rushed the bear, chances are good that it would have stopped its <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/i.viglink.com\/?key=9de71e6c298fd9cb002323453ea3821f&amp;insertId=1c70fe580773746665de9cb26f191141&amp;type=CD&amp;mid=undefined&amp;exp=60%3ACI1C55A%3A5&amp;libId=jh8j64mu01013rno000DA1d4a32gb1cjem&amp;loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alloutdoor.com%2F2018%2F05%2F10%2Fman-dies-trying-take-selfie-injured-bear%2F%3Futm_source%3DContextly%26utm_medium%3DChannelEmail%26utm_campaign%3DKnives%2B%2526%2BMultitools%26utm_content%3DPopular%252BTrending&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownells.com%2Fsearch%2Findex.htm%3Fk%3Dattack&amp;title=Man%20Dies%20Trying%20to%20Take%20Selfie%20With%20Injured%20Bear%20-%20AllOutdoor.com&amp;txt=%3Cspan%3Eattack%3C%2Fspan%3E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link added by VigLink\">attack<\/a>. The only creature really trying to save this human life was a dog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zGDrMX0ncJQ\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India. Not smart. Bad result. Sound like he may of had a couple of cocktails. This from the AllOutdoor website with the under one minute video mentioned below. As if to prove that Americans aren\u2019t the only idiots when it comes to wildlife interaction, a man in India was reportedly mauled to death when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}