If you've seen Leonardo DiCaprio's Academy Award winning performance in The Revenant, you'll know that an encounter with a bear can be quite...grizzly. But that was a movie set with CGI; a real life face off with a bear can easily result in a painful death.
But thanks to some quick thinking, Canadian man Randall Warnock, has lived to tell the tale.
The 57-year-old had been in his boat for six hours and decided to dock at Brown Island to stretch his legs. As he was walking along the coast, he heard a crack and turned around to see a grizzly bear staring right at him.
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The four-legged animal went straight for Randall's legs and latched onto his right knee. Randal pulled a knife out of his back-pocket but dropped it while he was trying to shake the bear off his leg.
He's told CHEK news: "I thought, 'fight back, fight back.' I just had to bluff him back and say 'No, I'm going to put up a fight'."
So, the 57-year-old decided to do the only thing he could to ward off a giant grizzly: punch it in the nose.
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Randall says: "He let go and stood back two feet, just looking at my legs. He seemed high on adrenalin. It was like a video on high speed, it was just so amazingly fast."
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"His head was bobbing around and he looked like he was going to lunge at me. I grabbed a log and was going to throw it at his head but it slipped out and landed between us and then he just turned around and ran off into the bush."
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Warnock got back on his boat and called the Coast Guard, but it wasn't until two hours later that he was found and taken to hospital. He needed 30 stitches, which were mainly around his right knee, which also might have suffered some nerve damage.
Despite dropping his phone during the melee, Randall says he has no intentions on returning to Brown Island to get it. I don't think anyone blames him.
Not many people on this earth can say they've fought a grizzly bear singlehandedly and won.
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