A man described how he survived being mauled by a grizzly bear last weekend, saying he got down on the ground on his stomach and clutched his bear spray.
A disabled veteran Army reservist this week described a harrowing grizzly bear attack he survived by playing dead and holding onto his can of bear spray. Shayne Patrick Burke, 35, called the attack by the mama grizzly last Sunday the 'most violent thing I have ever experienced.' He added in an Instagram post: 'I’ve experienced being shot at, mortared and IED explosions.
' 'I still had my hands interlocked and my arms protecting my carotid arteries,' he wrote. 'I never let go of the bear spray can. As she bit my hands in the back of my neck she simultaneously bit the bear spray can and it exploded in her mouth. This is what saved my life from the initial attack. I heard her run away, I looked up and instantly ran in the opposite direction up a hill.
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