Author Topic: a man's man... (Read 1240 times)

sebastian toombs · « **on:** April 17, 2008, 04:15:50 PM »

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/04/17/bc-hunter-slaying-suspect.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080417.BCMERRITT17/TPStory/

this guys been on the news constantly the last couple days. i cant get enough of him, probably because he reminds me of my uncles in revelstoke...

MFS · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:29:26 PM »

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"He tried to bite me but I gave [him] a shot to tell him who's boss. I didn't want that big ugly bugger of mine chewing him up," said Robinson, referring to his own bull mastiff.

fucking rugged.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:34:50 PM »

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"He's a killer dog," he says. "The other dogs, they are hunters and will take off if they get the scent of a cougar. He stays close enough to take care of me. ... I take him when things need to be killed. That's just what he does."

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"I've dealt with wounded grizzlies and shit. The guy didn't mean anything to me," he said, standing in the kitchen doorway of the trailer where he lives with his family just outside Merritt, his thumbs hooked in the pockets of his jeans.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:35:01 PM »

Sebastian, did you read that book about that guy who cut down the albino tree the Haida really liked? That guy was hardcore.

I just got that documentary of the bear guy in Alaska who loved grizzly's then gets killed by them. Pretty excited to
watch it.

kilgore. · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:36:36 PM »

i was just about to make a post about grizzly man. that documentary is fucking gnarly, and funny at the same time when he has a fucking breakdown about his foxes or rabbits or whatever it was that he named and they got killed.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:42:54 PM »

Quote from: rfox on April 17, 2008, 04:35:01 PM

Sebastian, did you read that book about that guy who cut down the albino tree the Haida really liked? That guy was hardcore.

I just got that documentary of the bear guy in Alaska who loved grizzly's then gets killed by them. Pretty excited to
watch it.

no, i havent. i thought he was a bit of a head case?

try to DL the documentary "project grizzly" and watch it in conjunction with that alaska story... its a wicked pairing.

and check this out... i dont like crime stories but it involves one of the wildest, most isolated parts of north america (northernmost british columbia), and i picked it up one time in a used bookstore, started flipping hrough, and ended up reading the entire thing end to end...

http://www.amazon.com/Descent-into-Madness-Diary-Killer/dp/0888393210

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:45:33 PM »

Quote from: sebastian toombs on April 17, 2008, 04:42:54 PM

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Sebastian, did you read that book about that guy who cut down the albino tree the Haida really liked? That guy was hardcore.

I just got that documentary of the bear guy in Alaska who loved grizzly's then gets killed by them. Pretty excited to
watch it.
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no, i havent. i thought he was a bit of a head case?

try to DL the documentary "project grizzly" and watch it in conjunction with that alaska story... its a wicked pairing.

and check this out... i dont like crime stories but it involves one of the wildest, most isolated parts of north america (northernmost british columbia), and i picked it up one time in a used bookstore, started flipping hrough, and ended up reading the entire thing end to end...

http://www.amazon.com/Descent-into-Madness-Diary-Killer/dp/0888393210

The guy was definitely crazy but his logic made sense in a messed up way. Basically he didn't like that tree being venerated while thousands of trees around it were being logged. He was trying to make the point that all trees are sacred he just didn't do it very well.

But he was a great outdoorsman. He worked as a scout for timber companies for a long time.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #7 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:47:15 PM »

floral iconoclasm?

send me the book title if you have it, i really ought to read it... add it to the 'books to read' pile

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #8 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:50:52 PM »

The book is

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Spruce-Story-Madness-Greed/dp/B000OZ28C4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208476179&sr=1-1

it is pretty good, not great but interesting.

I ordered the descent into madness, looks good.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #9 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:54:12 PM »

its pretty fucking harsh. i wont give away the ending... but man it is memorable. its a lot like albert johnson, "the mad trapper"

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #10 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:57:51 PM »

I already ruined it with that damn wikipedia.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #11 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:03:24 PM »

Quote from: rfox on April 17, 2008, 04:57:51 PM

I already ruined it with that damn wikipedia.

nah, youre okay, wikipedia actually doesnt cover it very well... you mean the info under "sheslay river" im guessing?

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #12 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:07:02 PM »

Yeah, it was pretty brief and I restrained myself from going into it more. But I am just sitting here waiting for a 3D model to finish printing so it is going to be hard.

MFS · « **Reply #13 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:09:32 PM »

I met this dude in port alice one time who got his face ripped off by a cougar and killed it with his pocket knife. dude looked so gnarly, he told me his story had been published. i wonder if its kicking around on the internet.

MFS · « **Reply #14 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:10:48 PM »

well that was easy.
http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/2002/cougar_attack_vancouver.html

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #15 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:13:45 PM »

some more on the cougar attack

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/cougar/attacks.html

MFS · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:19:42 PM »

that shit happened just down the road from my ex's parents house in port alice. when i met the dude it looked like someone had poured acis all over his face. he was suprisingly open to talking about it too.

sebastian toombs · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:21:51 PM »

Quote from: MFS on April 17, 2008, 05:10:48 PM

well that was easy.
http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/2002/cougar_attack_vancouver.html

i saw one north of pemberton when i was about 12. it ran across the road in front of my family while we were driving on a camping trip. it was the first my dad had ever seen, and he was raised in revelstoke and had worked in the bush for most of his youth. it was incredible... it always bums me out when one gets killed, or turns to attacking a human because it cant get enough of its proper prey (deer). a friend wrote an article on how there used to be big government bounties on cougars on vancouver island...

gaiparee · « **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:31:20 PM »

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"He's a killer dog," he says. "The other dogs, they are hunters and will take off if they get the scent of a cougar. He stays close enough to take care of me. ... I take him when things need to be killed. That's just what he does."
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"I've dealt with wounded grizzlies and shit. The guy didn't mean anything to me," he said, standing in the kitchen doorway of the trailer where he lives with his family just outside Merritt, his thumbs hooked in the pockets of his jeans.
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anyone who can spend more than 2 days in merritt is clearly either a homicidal maniac or dudes like this guy. every storefront in merritt has murals of country music superstars like this one

and also, theres a cougar loose on the golfcourse i live on and i have to walk to campus with my little swiss army knife open, which means nothing because a cougar would eat my stomach and face without any effort. personally im open to facial disfiguration - it makes for interesting stories.

SFblah · « **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2008, 07:31:34 PM »

I thought this was gonna be another Doug Brown thread.

Now that I'm in it I have to say all that's gnarly.

Perfection* · « **Reply #20 on:** April 17, 2008, 07:40:54 PM »

a man's man indeed *gets hard*

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