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Via Helena IR:
After the mother grizzly bear finished mauling him, after he rubbed the bear spray from his eyes and hiked a half-mile cradling a broken arm, Bob Legasa found himself under attack from a meaner, more unpredictable and entirely more vicious animal: online commenters.
“I have never been so threatened in my life,” said Legasa, a Hayden, Idaho, resident. “There are literally hundreds of threats wishing that I would die. Wishing that I would die a slow, painful death. It came, from all people, the peaceful grass-eating vegan community.”
Legasa was attacked by a mother grizzly bear Oct. 13 while bowhunting for elk in Montana. As he and his partner walked through tall sagebrush – between 6 and 8 feet – they startled a grizzly bear cub and its mother.
The mother bear charged Legasa. His hunting partner, Greg Gibson, of Sandpoint, Idaho, sprayed them both with bear spray, but not before the bear tackled Legasa.
The bear grabbed Legasa’s arm with her mouth and clawed at his face. But the bear spray deployed by Gibson drove the animal away.
Covered in blood and nearly blind from the spray, which had blown back into their faces, both men hiked out.
While recovering in a nearby hospital, Legasa, who owns an outdoor media company, posted to Facebook about the attack. His post went viral, accumulating more than 9,000 comments and 17,000 shares.
That’s when Legasa found himself in a second meat grinder.
Sunday, right before he went into surgery, a friend messaged him a warning that an animal rights group in England had reposted his post.
The flood gates opened.
Many of the comments Legasa received were supportive. Friends, family and strangers wished him a speedy recovery. But there were many critical, mean and violent comments, too.
“Karma. Can you post your address so that someone can finish the job and feed the remains to the bears in winter,” posted a Facebook user from France.
“Come on guys, don’t be so mean. This is incredibly tragic,” wrote someone from Canada. “Tragic that Momma Bear didn’t get a chance to finish the job of taking out the trash.”
An American wrote, “Bet you’re not the apex predator you thought you were. Let’s hope the next time the bear finished what it started.”
Those three commenters didn’t respond to an interview request.