interesting coincidence...

[jay]

Emails received within 15 minutes: one is from Pascal, showing photos of heavy polar bear damage to a couple of HMP structures on Devon Island (*huge* snow drifts, too...). The second is regarding re-upping for the wild animal defense (firearms self-defense) class, in April...

Comments

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Wow... You sure do have some interesting work dilemmas!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

You mean marauding wild beasts aren't common in most workplaces?

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

It's fairly rare that I get them in mine nowadays... ;-)

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Oh my. I'm slightly scared to ask, but I'd be curious to see the photo.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'll post it after I get settled tonight.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he told me that we can't count on any of the food inventory and should plan to start from scratch.

But hey, maybe we can avoid tang ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

If anything survived, it will be the Tang and the 5-year-old orange snack crackers...

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

My view is, and will continue to be until I'm actually starving, that those aren't *food*.

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

Support your right to arm bears!

:-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

As long as I'm packing something with more stopping power, perhaps... heh.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

So you're trained to kill polar bears if they attack?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'm trained to try to frighten them away, if spotted at a distance. If at close range, or if one charges, I'm trained to place center-body shots with a large-caliber rifle (say, .45-70) or a 12-gauge shotgun using slugs. But we have to then pay a mandatory $25K fine for killing a bear, unlike the Inuit locally... so the joke there is that if anyone has to kill a bear, then Samson (local guide and asst. camp manager) did it, by definition...

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Wow! Your job takes you some really neat and strange places.

I wish I could take the defense class with you - I imagine the material is valuable and from a really good perspective.

Hugs, but not the bear hug kind. Hee. hee.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Gentle hugs from you are most appreciated. :)

You would be interesting to watch, in that class. A different form of self-defense...