In the early morning hours of July 28, 2010, at the Soda Butte Campground near Cooke City, Mont., 5 miles east of Yellowstone, a female grizzly and her three cubs attacked three people while they slept in separate tents. Kevin Kammer was killed and partially consumed. The other two mauling victims—Deb Freele and college student Ronald Singer—survived with moderate injuries. The sow was euthanized, and her cubs were placed in a zoo.Slate spoke with Freele, a 59-year-old retiree and mother of three, about her experience on the night of the attack, how she felt about the decision to euthanize the bear, and why she wants to return to Yellowstone someday.
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"I have a bit of PTSD. But I’ve already been camping out in black bear country in Michigan. [Black bears] don’t really faze me too much. I follow all the rules; they behave the way they’re supposed to. The site I was in, there was a family of raccoons and the babies were sniffing around my tent—I thought the chemicals they used to treat it smelled like meat. When these little things were sniffing around my tent, I had a panic attack. The [PTSD] actually comes up when I’m playing this video game called Skyrim. I normally play Call of Duty, and I don’t have a negative response to that. But Skyrim has dragons and sasquatches and things that come at you—that one kicks off that reaction."
Skyrim even has big mean bears in it.
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Yes, and at lower levels they can be very tough to kill - makes perfect sense to me.
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This isn't controversial or political... Why here?
Why not here? Cheeze obviously lives in Cleveland.
The folks in the other parts of the forums are scary
LOL
At least here you know who's packin because everyone is =P
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
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I have an animal ally shout that I've never even used.
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It's mediocre - as I recall, it only lasts for a certain amount of time, and then the mob comes after you again. It doesn't help you defeat them.
The True Remedy for the Fugitive Slave Bill is a good revolver, a steady hand, and a determination to shoot down any man attempting to kidnap. - Frederick Douglass
And hitting the beastie makes it renounce it's new-found freindship, so it's not a whole lot of use for killing the big scary, furry brute either.
You've never known true joy until you've shaken a lich stick at someone.
And the animal won't even be your ally. I found a bear parked outside the Thalmor embassy so I was ready to tear some sh*t up: I got the bear's attention and shouted at it, and then drew aggro from the Thalmor thinking the bear would charge in. But instead it just wandered away up the road and went to sleep. After I dealt with the Thalmor, I killed it.
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I'll go one further. The first time I climbed up to High Hrothgar, I "befriended" a bear who was beating the crap out of a saber-tooth tiger. Bear stops attacking tiger, tiger starts attacking me, bear watches on from a distance, chuckling quietly to itself.
You've never known true joy until you've shaken a lich stick at someone.
What's the opposite of Cleveland? Because this thread is headed there.
I feel like I'm being asked to play chess but before I can make my next move, I have to listen to the innermost feelings of my queen-side rook.
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I wonder if the trigger could work like in combat PTSD victims, helping experience the situation in a safe way.
Words... are a big deal.
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Well, Tetris has been proven to reduce the formation of PTSD flashbacks. I don't know if anyone has done any studies on using a videogame as a coping mechanism.
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I don't have cites on-hand, but I've seen clinical uses of shooters as therapy for military PTSD sufferers.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
Not mainstream, but Military games have been used to help returning soldiers deal with their PTSD. It is about controlled reliving of the traumatic experience.
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