Unsuited, unbearable?
Investigator Rob Sanders sends bear news. He writes: “Obviously, Mr. Scott MacInnes hasn’t been keeping up with the Igs over the years. Look at this April 22, 2005 new report from Reuters:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scott MacInnes set an Alaskan record this week,
although not one contenders would seek to break. State officials say
the 51-year-old biologist is the first person known to have survived
two bear attacks.
MacInnes, a 51-year-old biologist, was mauled during his early morning
jog on Monday when he met up with a brown bear and one or two cubs near
his home in the Kenai Peninsula town of Soldotna.
He had been mauled 38 years earlier on a well-used hiking trail in the
Chugach National Forest, according to a government biologist….
“Does anyone want to connect Mr. MacInnes with Troy Hurtubise [who won a 1998 Ig Nobel Prize for building and personally testing a suit of armor meant to be impervious to grizzly bears, and who has since continued his altruistic engineering adventures]?”