Grizzly Man Up For Darwin Award!

Might of been the whiskey, could have been the beer. Might have been the three of four six packs, but NOOOOOO, it was a BEAR!!!

I watched the highly praised "Grizzly Man" documentary tonight on the Discovery Channel, and all I can say is, Timothy Tredwell was a bonafied nut bar. The guy choked up, literally choked up, at the sight of what he thought was a dead bee on a flower (this wonderful environmentalists appears to be ignorant of how insects behave in chilly weather. And, duh, I'm no tree hugger, but even I know a baby fox is called "kit," not a "cub."). He gushed with excitement over fresh bear poop, touching it as if it were the hand of his favorite rock star.

He vowed to "protect these bears," but did nothing, except hide, while some tourists tossed stones at one of his beloved pets to keep it away from them. (Raw emotionalism prevented him from figuring out that his constant presence desensitized the bears to other humans. Of course little "Quincy" approaced the camera toting tourists!) A friendly "smiley face" painted on a rock became an ominous threat message.

Timothy Tredwell was a fast and furious phony baloney. Nothing was really "real" to this guy. He'd been faking or avoiding reality since he went to college. In the end, it was reality that won, as usual. Timothy was eaten, along with his girlfriend, by a bear in October, 2003.

Timothy drank to escape reality (or create a new one), abused drugs to do the same, but gave all that up to instead pretend to be the master of the Alaskan wilderness, making friends with the wild creatures, particularly the bears that lived there, giving them names, and telling them he "loved" them a whole lot. It got pretty nauseating toward the end.

He kind of reminded me of this guy I knew some years ago who tried to make up for his lack of character and integrity by owning lots of exotic, some down right dangerous, pets. Poisonous snakes, some kind of wild cat beast, stuff like that. Timothy Tredwell was trying to avoid character all together by becoming one with the bear.

To be fair, the man who put the film together did an awesome job of trying to show all sides of the Tredwell bear boondoggle, but it was pretty obvious the Grizzly Man was a tree hugging peacenik enviroweeny elitist who got eaten by his evasions.