What a great story!<\/p>\n
The abused, misunderstood, underappreciated zucchini gets its day (or night, rather) in the spotlight.<\/p>\n
Too bad we weren’t able to have a garden this year. Just think for much I could be selling zucchinis on eBay or even down at the local farmers’ market.<\/p>\n
Oh well. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
But wait. I haven’t even let you read the story yet.<\/p>\n
Police say a Montana woman fended off a bear attack with an unlikely weapon \u2014 a zucchini.<\/p>\n
Missoula County Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Maricelli says a 200-pound black bear attacked one of the woman’s dogs just after midnight Wednesday on the back porch of her home about 15 miles west of Missoula.<\/p>\n
When the woman, whom police did not name, tried to separate the animals, the bear bit her in the leg.<\/p>\n
Maricelli says the woman reached for the nearest object at hand on the porch’s railing \u2014 a large zucchini that she had harvested from her garden.<\/p>\n
The woman flung the vegetable at the bear, striking it and forcing it to flee.<\/p>\n
Maricelli says the woman did not need medical attention. Wildlife officials were trying to locate the bear on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/i> Mont. woman fends off bear attack with zucchini<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yup. That’s the story. Exactly as it reads at the above link. Or at least read as of 2:25 pm Pacific on September 23, 2010.<\/p>\n
I thought it was a great story. And funny, too! I still do, in fact.<\/p>\n
But that next-to-the-last sentence set off my Fish Alert Bells.<\/p>\n
The woman was bit by a bear…and didn’t require medical attention?! Please!<\/i><\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n
Either that bear is a wimp — and being chased off by a vegetable may verify that — or that woman is mighty tough.<\/p>\n
Or something is fishy about the story.<\/p>\n
So I read it again.<\/p>\n
Go wading into a dog-bear fight and try to separate the animals?<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Be close enough to a bear to be bit and close enough to the porch railing to merely reach out for the Attack Vegetable…and then fling<\/i> said weapon at the bear?<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s all just a matter of semantics, but when you’re close enough to a bear for hand-to-paw and leg-to-tooth combat, you don’t fling<\/i>, you clobber<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Fling, my friends, is for out-of-reach combat.<\/p>\n
No sale.<\/p>\n
I like zucchini. But not fishy zucchini.<\/p>\n
Now, go ahead, tell me how you<\/i> believe the story. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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