Bear Proof Suit Put To The Test
from the some-people-have-issues dept
Okay. So, he's already won an Ig Nobel award, but now it looks like the creator of the $100,000 bear-proof suit is looking to get a Darwin Award as well. He's decided it's time to test it on a real, attacking bear. It's already been tested against trucks, baseball bats, axes, arrows and bullets. However, the suit was designed to be bear proof - so it might as well be tested against a bear. The guy sounds a little nervous: "Little things like trucks and baseball bats and axes and things - you don't feel that. This is a bear." The suit, by the way, is made of plastic, rubber, chainmail, galvanised steel, titanium - and lots and lots of duct tape (proving that it really is duct tape that binds the world together).
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Troy Hurtubise
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http://www.nfb.ca/grizzly/troy.html
"Troy is a conservationist, bear behavioural specialist and parks and forest recreation technologist. He has conducted his own brand of maverick close--quarter bear research for more than seven years."
Doesn't sound like he's deathly afraid of bears to me...sounds like he knows intimately, and totally respects the destructive power a bear can possess.
I had read an article somewhere a long while back that some bomb squads are investigating his design because its very maneuverable while being extremely protective.
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