In some of my old blogs my readers seemed to absolutely delight in the fact that I would constantly bring them awful facts, or news stories. I thought this blog should be no different.
Culled from: The Daily Telegraph (August, 21,2011)
"A distraught mother listened on a mobile phone as her teenage daughter was eaten alive by a brown bear and its three cubs. Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave an horrific hour-long running commentary on her own death in three separate calls as the wild animals mauled her. She screamed: ‘Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!’ Her mother Tatiana said that at first she thought she was joking. ‘But then I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing,’ she added. ‘I could have died then and there from shock.’ Unknown to Tatiana, the bear had already killed her husband Igor Tsyganenkov – Olga’s stepfather – by overpowering him, breaking his neck and smashing his skull. Olga, a trainee psychologist, saw the attack on her stepfather in tall grass and reeds by a river in Russia and fled for 70 yards before the mother bear grabbed her leg. As the creature toyed with her, she managed to call Tatiana several times during the prolonged attack. Tatiana rang her husband – not knowing he was already dead – but got no answer. She alerted the police and relatives in the village of Termalniy, near Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, in the extreme east of Siberia. She begged them to rush to the river where the pair had gone to retrieve a fishing rod that Igor had left. In a second call, a weak Olga gasped: ‘Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re… eating me.’ Finally, in her last call – almost an hour after the first – Olga sensed she was on the verge of death. With the bears having apparently left her to die, she said: ‘Mum, it’s not hurting any more. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.’ Half an hour later, Igor’s brother Andrei arrived with police to find the mother bear still devouring his body. Badly mauled Olga was also dead. Six hunters were sent in by the emergency services to kill the mother bear and her three cubs. The double killing is the latest in a spate of bear attacks across Russia, as the hungry animals seek food in areas where people have encroached and settled on their former habitat. A weeping Tatiana said that Olga had everything to look forward to, and was happy with her life and boyfriend Stepan. ‘My daughter was such fun. She was so cheerful, friendly, and warm,’ said Tatiana. ‘She had graduated from music school, and just days before the bear attack she got her driving licence.’ Her husband and daughter are due to be buried today."
And call me cruel, but I laughed out loud when I read this part.
‘Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re… eating me.’
Om nom... a family affair!
So it’s come to this with our "cell phone savvy generation"? You can’t even die properly without being on the phone? I’m surprised she, with her incredible endurance (I'd kill for her endurance... though I'd rather forgo the whole "being made a snack for The Berenstain Bears" part.), she didn’t post about it on Facebook, complete with photographs (now that would have been pretty awesome). If she was an American, she probably would have…
In closing, I'd like to say this, if we would stay away from the bears territory, they would likely stay away from us... As Trent would say, "STOP FUCKING", and curb the over-population situation that threatens the bear's natural habitat, after all, they are bigger than us, and apparently like the taste of stupid human.
By the way The Berenstain Bears are fucking AWESOME!
That is awful. Just sayin'.
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