I didn't see the last option.

- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson

Newspaper reports are usually at least that bad.  It gives you a new perspective on the news to know the truth about a story, doesn't it?

This is really unusual for a black bear, believe it or not, even if they lose a bit of fear by being around people occasionally.  He would have mostly been drawn in close by the fish on the boats, but it's still really unusual to attack someone unless they're going after some food or scent they're carrying, and even then they're rarely that persistent.

Here's your explanation.  A bear that's thin in September is very hungry and isn't going to live through the winter anyhow, and old male bears are braver.  Normally a black bear would have to be really starving to stick around after getting hit like that.

Oftentimes a bear is really set on something, pain just makes it mad.

One time there was this guy who was driving a compact car around the east side of Flathead Lake in Montana, and he hit an old male grizzly bear.  Well, he stopped to calm down, and the bear came back and pounded the hell out of the car.  He managed to start up and limp off again.  My aunt was working at the auto dealership where he brought the car to get it repaired.  She said the door looked like someone had been pounding it with a sledge hammer, the front wheels had bad toe-in, and that there was blood and fur under the wheel wells.  There were later reports of a grizzly with an injured shoulder wandering around near Flathead Lake.

Don't count on scaring a grizzly.

The poor guy was from India and had no idea that there were even bears in the US.  He called up his rental car company in Boston and explained what happened, but for some reason they didn't buy the "a bear beat the hell out of the car," story, and made him drive the thing back to Boston without getting it fully repaired.

Fish guts is yummy!

I heard that walking up to a bear chanting "I love you" is perfectly safe.