Polar Bears are what other bears want to be when they grow up. You do not want to meet a hungry polar bear. The only good thing about Polar Bears is that they live where almost nobody else lives. Oh, and their cubs are adorable. I am suspicious about the accuracy of the Coke commercials [...]
Spiders are pretty good Summer of Fear material, but they rarely manage to get much coverage so it is nice to see them break out a bit with this story of a man dying after being bitten by a Black Widow 19 times. That was one determined spider.
Interesting story about a Leopard attacking people in a village in India, thankfully it doesn’t appear to have killed anyone, but what makes this story stand out are the photos, which are pretty vivid without being gory.
The neighbor from hell story is always a winner and this story of a hacker* abusing his neighbor’s wi-fi is a classic. I am actually surprised this doesn’t happen more often, but the real hero of the story is the victim’s company IT guy. People often forget that everything you do on the internet is [...]
Bears are making a late run at this year’s Summer of Fear contest with the first fatal bear attack on a hiker at Yellowstone Park in twenty five years. The hiker and his wife were only a mile and half from the trail head and apparently came across a mother bear and her cubs, always [...]
This is actually a pretty sad story, but the headline is pretty Summer of Feary so I can’t pass it up: Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident. Now we have to watch the skies for bears as well. Great, just great.