• Within hundredths of seconds, I felt the teeth in my arm, heard bones breaking. I screamed and that seemed to aggravate him. He sunk his teeth into me again. So I decided to play dead and mean it.
• London, Ontario resident Deb Freele • Describing her initial reaction to waking up in a Montana campground to a bear chewing on her arm. The playing dead trick worked, because she survived, along with another man. Another man at Soda Butte, a popular campground near Yellowstone National Park, wasn’t so lucky. It was the first fatal bear attack in Montana since 2001. source

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