'If it gets me, it gets me': the town where residents live alongside polar bears

[turbinetree]

Residents of Churchill, Canada share their streets with the largest land carnivore in the world as their isolated town’s identity faces a reckoning: a revitalized port

by Kieran Mulvaney

Spend enough time in Churchill, and you will hear the stories.

Of hearing a noise outside, pulling open the drapes and seeing a polar bear looking in through the window.

Of walking around a corner at night, coming face-to-face with a bear and, implausibly, scaring it off with the strobe light on a cellphone.

Of encountering an old man with a walker, determinedly clacking past a puzzled bear that peered at him from behind a rock and muttering defiantly: “If it gets me, it gets me.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/13/churchill-canada-polar-bear-capital

Been there when I was kid.......................fishing for salmon, with a long line..........................

[Doreen]

1. I would rather die at the "paws" of a polar bear

than getting shot by some trumper gun loving asshole.

[rusty fender]

2. "Those walkers are hell on my digestive system"

said the polar bear to the other polar bear

[Ohiogal]

3. Interesting! Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[mbusby]

5. Crunchy outside....