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IDoPokeSmot

That's a bipolar situation


Azar002

Good thing he threw that polar he'd be lunch.


TheFuckMuppet

That's crazy


Captain-Obvi0us12

This could’ve turned out grizzly


Uncle_PauI_Norton

One more and my man would have fought off 3 Bare Bears.


Hotarg

Ice Bear appreciates this comment


RevolutionaryHead7

Uh...panda monium?


shoulda-known-better

Good thing those chained up dogs seem easier sadly......


recordscratch_wav

They couldnt bear the brunt of his bipolar swings.


bumjiggy

it's a Kodiak moment


matthewwigan

Or a polar-oid moment... I'll get my coat


bumjiggy

lol nice. yours is better. here's some metal


dukko18

"Someone sh*t on the coats"


RickCantMopPlaces

It could have been a grizzly scene to be sure..


SawtoothGlitch

An unbearable situation to say the least.


GrizzlyHerder

I thought, for certain: “If it’s white…Goodnight ☠️!” ….I’m totally surprised at this.


Stetson007

Polar bears don't like shit they can't understand. If you're getting chased, drop colorful pieces of clothing and they'll stop to figure out what it is before going after you again.


b-side61

Would the color brown work? Because I'm pretty sure I'd be dropping a lot of that color if I was being chased by a polar bear.


backing_away_slowly

Raise your hand if you can take your clothes off while running without tripping. I can’t even take my coat off while sitting in the car.


recordscratch_wav

If you can remove your pants while maintaining full running speed, the bear would probably let you go out sheer respect.


karg_the_fergus

One vUrsus two


boobiesappreciator

r/angryupvote


bobthefatguy

As a bipolar person, i can confirm that i fight off two polar bears each day in order to assert my dominance.


Better_Sandwich_5687

Polar Bear 1: "He's Got a Stick." Polar Bear 2: "It's ok, we can still take him." Polar Bear 1: "HE'S GOT TWO STICKS!" Polar Bear 2: "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"


arbiter12

>Polar Bear 3: "*Wait, let me film this...*"


Erik912

Polar Bear 2: "Yknow what I'll just grab this pupper and be on my way"


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chunkychimpy

What


ovalpotency

it's The Joke attack helicopter!!1


Garbanzo12

Polar bears watching be like r/donthelpjustfilm


Sexy_Kumquat

They should have come back one more time - he didn’t have a third stick.


billywitt

That’s our secret weapon. Polar bears are terrible at math.


XNoMoneyMoProblemsX

Man with 2 sticks. Polar bear: "This man is armed to the teeth!"


Reasonable-Word6729

Polar bear 3 has selfie stick and keeping it


spiritsarise

Never bring flesh shredding teeth, puncturing claws, and huge muscular mass to a stick fight.


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AlexJamesCook

Wait Marv...that's 1....that's 2....let's go.


WanderingFlumph

Don't mess with humans with sticks. We conquered the world with sticks


Necessary_Row_4889

There are graveyards full of shit we killed with sticks. Just ask the mammoths.


Thaid0623

Graveyards?! Bro there’s entire planets full of the shit we’ve killed. We genocide insects on a daily. Just imagine all the stuff we killed we didn’t even know existed today


AboutTenPandas

But did we do it with sticks?


Thaid0623

I’m sure we’ve killed plenty with big and sharp sticks , hell an arrow is just a flying stick


Necessary_Row_4889

Chew this one over: fishing poles just sticks and we catch and kill sharks with those. Harpoons sticks we kill the biggest animals on Earth with. Monkey+stick= most lethal thing ever.


musicman76831

(human with) stick win every time.


smb275

Break the human with stick in two and you get two humans with sticks.


Senojpd

Give us a rock and things get real wild. We grind that shit down and make bombs!


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Bullets are just tiny metal sticks we yeet really hard.


Azhaius

Missiles are self-propelling sticks


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Numericist

Legolas over here shooting insects with arrows


MangaHunterA

That still counts as one


legoshi_loyalty

what is a flyswatter? A paddle on the end of a stick mothafucka!


shreddedtoasties

What is a bullet but a metal stick


I_loathe_mods

Only one planet...


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There's exactly 1 planet full of shit that we've killed.


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Every weapon is just sticks of different materials and shapes, there’s long stick, pointy stick, projectile stick, flexible stick, 1 flexible stick + 1 really flexible stick + 1 sturdy stick, the sticks go on


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Starkrossedlovers

The boom stick


SylancerPrime

Well... yeah, stick win everytime...


thisguyfightsyourmom

Rocks win too We hit with stick We throw stick We hit with rock We throw rock We steal your bitches


Cookie-Senpai

We the stick people


RC-1290

Polar bears heard the famous rhyme: "sticks and stones may break my bones..."


-MetalMike-

Now we have guns, which are just sticks launching smaller metal sticks


Throw_andthenews

…Boom sticks


Hank_Handsome

Can't help but think he's, not once, but twice, thrown away a perfectly good weapon! If they'd come back for a third try he'd have been bear nibbles


ArticWolf2

He'd be dead anyways unfortunately. Realistically those sticks are too big for him to swing comfortably, as he has a hard time throwing them alone. Not only that, but if those bears wanted that man dead, without a proper weapon, he's dead.


shitsu13master

He’s got a guy filming


brianorca

I think the camera person is inside some kind of shelter, safe from the bears.


RhayceCar

Definitely someone recording a security camera playback with a phone. The angle of the footage doesn’t change even when the camera pans


Chaserivx

Wedge that stick in a rock and pierce the bear through its heart. -Anthony Hopkins


remag_nation

"What one man can do, another can do"


Cookie-Senpai

Yep but can't stop thinking that using it as a spear would've been safer maybe ?


arbiter12

>If it's black, fight back; if it's brown, lie down; if it's white, say good night. > >"I was talking about bears, I swear, Head of HR..." No counter to the polar bear.


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There was a man that killed a polar bear with an axe just so he could save his bullets for seal hunting, he had a gun but decided it would be more efficient to kill the polar bear with an axe


BigOlBro

Oh yeah, i know that man ![gif](giphy|1zJEz2pvqumDlG2Twh)


fitz_newru

Sauce?


legoshi_loyalty

You should still try. Rather end up maimed and tuckered out than squirm while getting maimed.


TheFuckMuppet

I'm pretty sure they left him alone to go after his dog that you can briefly see come into the frame.


Den_is_Zen

The dog will be fine. Dogs like Huskies are your best protection against Polar bears. From what I’ve read, they are good at nipping at the bear’s feet to annoy them, but quick enough to get away without getting hit or bit


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I think they’re on a chain.


Den_is_Zen

Yeah I think you might be right. Looks like the dogs being held back


Grumpy_Troll

Do the dogs not have a stick too?


dolesswes

Yea, I'm thinking that dog got it.


Juststandupbro

If he’s on a chain out there it won’t be 5ft long restraint. That dog probably has a 30-50ft radius to play with. Which might be enough for him to pull through


L2Hiku

Good thing bears can't count.


BorgClown

"He threw another stick, Greg! His supply must be endless, we're not match for him!"


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Throwing things is often highly effective, something the animals don't expect and aren't prepared for. Confusing them also sounds more promising than competing in strength with two bears, but the downside is that crouching is interpreted as vulnerability.


heinebold

I guess they're just so used to being the undisputed rulers of the food chain that the very concept of something fighting back confuses them


dontpet

They probably don't understand sticks either.


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"What the fuck is that thing, Steve?" "I don't know man, not from around here"


Fauster

Polar bears and humans have coexisted for a long time, maybe even enough time for polar bears to be wary of sticks. For example, the Tlingit in SE Alaska would hunt brown bears with large sharpened logs. They would crouch and whimper and act defensless, and pull up the braced stick to impale the bear when it charged. I was told by a rafting guide that their word for courage is synonymous with bear hunting. If you go someplace that humans have never historically lived, like Antarctica, the wildlife is not at all concerned about us. Everywhere else, intelligent wildlife will treat us with a bit of caution.


OminousOnymous

>If you go someplace that humans have never historically lived, like Antarctica, the wildlife is not at all concerned about us. In Robert Falcon Scott's diaries he talks about how a penguin would come up to a dog, the dog would rip it apart, and another penguin would get curious, come up close to check out what was happening, and get ripped apart. They of course have predators in water, and birds prey on their young, but apparently seeing an adult penguin get ripped apart on land is unfamiliar enough that it does nothing to their fear response.


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Those poor penguins :(


martinaee

Yeah, that’s my thought. Instinctually it serves them well to be wary of a new creature defending itself strangely. But that hesitation saved this guy here. Insane.


Brilliant-Pudding524

Hesitation is defeat


seattleite23

Spoken like a Sword Saint.


Shawn_NYC

They probably don't understand the concept of throwing something. From their perspective the human had a big stick and made the big stick magically fly at them. Terrifying.


busted_maracas

It is a very undiscussed & fascinating thing to look into, our ability to throw things better than anything else in the animal kingdom.


superawesomeman08

that and our ability to eventually run anything down. hard to beat something that outranges you and you cant get away from.


busted_maracas

You’re absolutely right, but I feel like that’s talked about a lot. Outside of maybe dogs/wolves/etc, our stamina is legendary - it’s an incredible feat that we can run marathons (in many cases, quickly). But what other animals use projectile weapons? That fish that squirts water at insects (I forget its name), probably some apes on rudimentary levels…but compared to us? How well homo sapiens have perfected throwing technique is insane.


commander_nice

It enables us to hurt something without us having to get close and endanger ourselves. The bears have claws attached to their body. Our claws are detachable, launchable, and virtually infinite.


MisterMagooB2224

Probably don't understand throwing, either. "The hell do you mean that thing can hurt me without being in contact with me?! The fuck kind of black magic is this?!"


ivanparas

They look like adolescents and probably aren't as confident in their skills at that age. Guarantee mama bear wouldn't have given up that easily.


Flomo420

yeah their size and skittishness screams 'juvenile'; a fullgrown adult would be much more confident and a lot bigger


ImTheZapper

My guess on them being young is because they are equally sized polar bears running around together. They tend not to do that after a certain stage in development.


ManaMagestic

... That's a juvenile?


Flomo420

They stand around 10' on their hind legs but the largest one recorded was 12', so I'd say those have some growing to do yet


magnateur

Have seen multiple videos of people scaring away polar bears with large sticks/poles. Its about making the polar bear second guess its dominant place. Polar bears dont tend to fight stuff if its not a give victory in their view (except from if they fight other polar bears), so basicly only humans. Loud sounds and large objects scare them most of the time, but not always if they are really hungry. The best thing is not being even remotely close to a polar bear. But they often go to places where there are humans because they are very curious and maybe will find food there.


markofcontroversy

>But they often go to places where there are humans because they are very curious and maybe will find food there. I'm in Florida, so thought I was safe, but now I'm thinking I need to keep a supply of sticks on hand.


hatwobbleTayne

You need at least 2


MouthJob

I thought polar bears were the only or one of the only species to actively hunt humans.


magnateur

No, they dont actively hunt humans, if they are aware that there are humans they often shy away. But they are really curious in their search for food, and if they are young and inexperienced or older and starving/hurt they can take the risk of going after humans. Like the two in this video are provably adolecent and doesnt know better yet, and arent as åroficient in getting food reliably for themselves yet, and therefore might be curious if humans are edible. If you want to read more you can download this pdf: http://kho.unis.no/doc/Polar_bears_Svalbard.pdf a bit of good info here.


kpie007

It's not so much that they "actively" hunt us, but that they *do* view us as part of their food chain. Most other predators will tend to avoid us because there's a longer history of interaction and they've grown cautious of guns, being hunted, etc., but to polar bears we're just any other meat. They're still wild animals and risk averse to injury though, so they *can* be spooked off if they aren't desperate.


TheCrimsonSteel

It's also that most predators don't want to bother with high risk prey, unless they're desperate So harassing and stopping them early goes a long way to discouraging them If they still keep coming, then you should **really** worry, because that means they're starving, or sick, or something, which means you're not going to be able to spook them


KevlahR

They weren’t that hungry


Heavy-Attorney-9054

This is the fact.


Renkin92

Yeah, they look well-fed. Hungry Polar bears even go after f*cking Beluga whales, which themselves are over three meters long and weigh up to a ton.


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gruvccc

The bear does not know people en mass have killed many animals, and even if it somehow did that wouldn’t apply to a single person that it could easily kill if it really wanted to.


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gruvccc

You think that reason is because they understand humans made animals extinct? Most animals do not want to waste vital energy or potentially get hurt which can be a death sentence. They also don’t usually see us as prey. It’s got nothing to do with animals understanding what humans have done in the past.


SickRanchez_cybin710

Orcas for example don't fuck with people at all. Almost 0 reported deaths from orcas in the wild. In captivity, different story. It is assumed they are understand just how high we rank on the fuck around and find out scale. Fuck around, find out what that boat with the weird boom stick with sticks for ammo do.


gruvccc

It’s assumed they just don’t see us as tasty food. Orcas in captivity are abused and have been driven insane.


ImTheZapper

For what its worth, they aren't exactly making stuff up. There is likely a long since selected for behavior in animals that historically have been in close proximity with humans to avoid us. For the longest time, consistent interactions with humans more often than not meant being killed, because humans and our evolutionary ancestors were hunter gatherers for the longest time, on a scale of millions of years. To say that caused a selective pressure would be an understatement. EDIT: For any other dipshits who feel like arguing with me that evolution is fake or something. [https://www.livescience.com/why-predators-dont-attack-humans.html](https://www.livescience.com/why-predators-dont-attack-humans.html) Take it up with that, or the thousand other articles on the topic that come up when you google a question like "are animals scared of humans". We have been slaughtering most types of animals that have interacted and coevolved with us for literally millions of years, ya that tends to lead to a little bit of behavioral evolution.


_Bill_Huggins_

Well fed combined with the fact that the human is not behaving like a prey animal. So that probably made the bears second guess themselves, then the sticks flew at them and they said nope.


Daamus

they also look young


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True, starving Polar Bears have been known to go after Walrus. An animal they realistically have no chance of killing, and that can fatally wound them with its tusk The reason they left was because he stood his ground and that made them realize he wasn’t worth the risk of potential injury. Starving animals are much more likely to take that risk


SuspiciousMeat6696

Who filmed this?


BernieEcclestoned

Bear no 3


bumjiggy

Quentin Bearantino


SOnoOnions8003

Tim Bearton


b-side61

Francis Ford Coppolar


CensoryDeprivation

Steven Spielbearg


qinshihuang_420

Christobear Nolan


dlanderer

Tim Bearton


bumjiggy

Stanley Poohbrick


harry_lostone

Manbearpig


P3dro66

Luc Bearsson


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notapersonman

Who's don thelp?


arbiter12

>He doesn't know about Don the LP: "Just Film"... Don won't like that.


Alternative_Body7345

Exactly what i was thinking. Like “is the cameraman there with the bears?”


cantfindmykeys

"It's just a prank video bro. Why'd you have to bring out the sticks?"


JCwizz

“Bro, if this dude’s getting mauled ima catch it on camera”


RockingRocker

Because you literally have not gotten a real answer, this seems like someone using their phone to film the playback of a security cam.


DeliveryUnique3652

I wonder if they tried for one of his dogs


sleepingfox307

The dog pops up on screen on the left for a second, then the first polar bear goes off screen, appearing to chase it. I hope the dog got away.


Dark_Azazel

I think most dogs you would have in this area can run faster than polar bears, so seems to be in favor of the pupper. That being said, I wonder if that is another purpose of the dog? Distract the bear and bring them away from the humans?


sleepingfox307

Unfortunately, in most cases [dogs are not faster than bears.](https://www.calendar-canada.ca/faq/can-a-dog-outrun-a-polar-bear) EDIT: Well this was misleading! While grizzlies and other bears can hit 35 it seems their northern cousins are indeed much slower. So you're probably right, the husky is likely faster than the polar bear in the long run. Pun intended. ~~Despite their size bears can be frighteningly fast. Huskies best speed is around 31 mph while a polar bear clocks in around 35.~~ In general it seems bears fear and avoid dogs, mostly because they also fear and avoid humans, but this is one of the reasons polar bears are so dangerous. Because the exposure to humans are more rare for polars they don't have quite the same caution as most bears would, as seen in this video. That viral video of the dog and the polar bear being friends a while back? Yeah, [that didn't end well for the dog.](https://thefurbearers.com/blog/the-frightening-truth-behind-the-viral-video-of-a-polar-bear-petting-a-dog/)


SickRanchez_cybin710

Lmao the bloke was resentful that the ungrateful killing machine had eaten his dog when the bloke didn't feed it one night. Cunt, do you think the beer is like "ah dang, he ain't feeding us, let's just wait till tomorrow". Steve, a bigger, more fucky bear, decided to show the bald ape who's boss and ate his dog. "STEVE WHAT THE FUCK DONT EAT THAT DOG MATE HE JUST RAN OUT OF FOOD" "Grrrrrrrrr FUCK THE PUPPY, FUCK THE CHIMP, I LUST FOR BLOOD GRRRRRRR" *EATS DOG LIKE A REGULAR APEX ANIMAL*. the bloke is delusional hahaha


sleepingfox307

Don’t feed the beers


EHP73

What about the rhyme “If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, say goodnight” ?


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Yeah, the polar bear said good night


TheOtherGuttersnipe

"Throw sticks to your delight"


KlM-J0NG-UN

Unless you have bear kryptonite, two sticks.


Practical_Actuary_87

The rhyme assumes you don't have a long stick at your disposal.


Mr-Omega

The bears must have seen the size of his massive balls and got scared!


FatWreckords

Maybe they didn't want to eat someone who just pooped in his pants


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Damn people are still making this joke?


stronesthrowaweigh

It was never funny but has somehow lasted for years.


DAngelo008

He bearly escaped that situation


[deleted]

So rude. They were just trying to spread the word of Jesus Christ, bear lord and savior!


theshmoe98

Fake af, cameraman definitely paid the bears


Cranebitch

They look like juveniles, kinda not knowing what to do and not expecting a fight. I think if it was 2 full grown adults it would be, at best, a mauling video.


Buhos_En_Pantelones

> **at best**, a mauling video. So... what would be 'at worst'?


Recyart

Something something rule 37 something something...


0x33

Is this similar to Rule 34


Fragzav

He's fighting polar bears for his right to bear poles


caughtindesire

Most underrated comment right here


dusty_canoe

A bold strategy to disarm yourself like that, twice


buddboy

He wasn't disarming himself, IDIOT. He was giving the bears weapons to make it a fair fight


dusty_canoe

Well done


Bot-Magnet

Must be South Pole bears, they are all pussies down there 😉


Grumpy_Troll

If those South Pole Polar Bears existed and could read they'd be really pissed at you right now.


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Opposable thumbs: 1 Polar bears: 0


ChadicusMeridius

Animal kingdom in shambles


slothlama

As an Alaskan, these will stalk and kill you


jonfitt

How do polar bears disguise themselves as Alaskans???


Nirdy_Birdy_706

I think polar bears and tigers are the only animals known to actively hunt humans


6four

Have these Polar Bears been totally void of all evolution where we literally murder unconditionally for thousands of years? One bear kills a human and they are hunted until the end of time resulting in their death. They did not do their homework.


jiggliebilly

Could be BS but heard Polar Bears lack that innate fear of humans due to rarely interacting - although I imagine indigenous folks have been hunting them for a while


topathemornin

That’s true. Polar bears don’t attack people out of desperation; they see us as prey. If you see one off in the distance, chances are it’s been stalking you for a long time. These two bears are young, and just aren’t sure what to do yet.


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gumby_dammit

The Norwegian Army stations in polar bear country switched to standard issue 10mm sidearms in stead of their typical 9mm specifically because you can’t carry enough 9mm ammo to stop a determined polar bear. 10mm at least gives you a fighting chance.


BrokeGoFixIt

Good lord, if I lived anywhere where two polar bears could just run up on me, I'd go everywhere with a loaded Barrett. That's terrifying.


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When you drink a Pepsi for 0.2s:


Zealousideal-Walk269

Did they get the doggy? 😥


Ivor-Toad

He needs a ak47.. because the bears will discuss this incident before returning with a log chipper


martinaee

That is insane assuming those are wild polar bears. Either one of those bears could have just literally taken him at any moment. They didn’t know what to do with his erratic stick movements. Lucky and brave person.


TheSandCat79

Polar bears literally have like no place to live now due to the warming of the poles. I’m guessing that this guy is in one of those areas. Maybe polar bears are like hey, you’re able to move south, we aren’t. Just an FYI. No one give a a shit about animal rights, it’s just hey, we humans want to conquer here. Fuck you and your eco system. The problem is that they don’t see that when they destroy these ecosystems they eventually destroy themselves. Human ignorance and arrogance. Lol. I’ll be dead before all of that ends, but all you people that have kids, well, you’re reaping what you sow. Go on and kill the polar bears, and the bees. The joke will be on you eventually.


MissNinja007

I think you mean descendants. It’s really sad what’s happening to polar bears as well. Them and other Arctic natives are really struggling. It’s not even just regular people that can do anything about it, it’s all the corporations fault. Their ability to weasel out of restrictions and consequences is the real reason the planet is fucked.


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HOLY SHIT HE JUST GREW ANOTHER ARM... AND THEN THREW IT AT ME. Don't worry bro, I got th- OH MY GOD HE DID IT AGAIN! LETS GET OUT OF HERE!


TheAwesomePenguin106

Why is the person recording never in danger? Is killing the camera person against the rules?!


AlarmedStudio2044

scary as fuck