Bear Fighting?
Americans are a special group. We take pride in our independence, our ingenuity and apparently our skills at animal wildlife fightin’. I personally once woke up to the sight of a Grackle in my bedroom and ran face first into a wall trying to get away from it. But I’m a special kind of coward compared to most Americans apparently. And I know this because YouGov commissioned a poll and found that a lot of Americans think they could fight lions, tigers and bears. Oh my….GOD!
Are people insane?
I get thinking we could kick a rat’s butt (if you can find it) but bear fighting? That’s a level of confidence I couldn’t possess without the aid of head trauma and powerful Central American narcotics. Or maybe, without specifying the type of bear, people think, “Yeah, I could do that.” Like a bear cub? I might stand a chance until its mother turned me into pâté. Also maybe a smaller black bear that sometimes we have going through our trash in the northeast. I mean I’m not too strong but that’s just basically like fending off an over-sized raccoon.
Could you fight these animals?
Here are the animals from the yougov poll we think we could defeat in a fight. I ranked them in order of how many beers I’d have to have to even think I’d stand a chance.