Media contact, and other randomness.

WCCO is interested in a quick story about Overheard in Minneapolis. How great is that?

Also, this afternoon, I had a phone conversation with Deb Rybak at The Star Tribune. Thumbs up. Way up.

In other news, there is an interesting discussion and debate going on over at the Something Awful.com forums. Unfortunatley, I can’t link directly to this thread, because it appears they have only one forum visible. However, the thread is accessible with the direct link. I just don’t have it.

Anyway, the debate is this:
Could 5 or 6 humans defeat a grizzly bear with their bare hands? No weapons of any form. Out in a field or in the woods, not in an arena. And they can be any humans you wish; the biggest, baddest, strongest athletes or martial artists, or …a combination of those.

I mostly read the thread because it was humorous, but by the end of the day, I started to wonder who would win. After weighing all of the points, I settled on the bear. Strangulation is out of the question, seriously. And I’ve seen the way a black bear can totally destroy a campsite in less than 4 seconds, I can’t even imagine what kind of damage a grizzly could do. There’s no way you could survive a punch to the face from a grizzly, and all he needs to do is take out 2 of you. Once your crew is down to 3 or 4, he has the upper hand.

There are definitely arguments to this, but I would actually have to see 5 people defeat a grizzly with their bare hands with my own eyes before I’d ever believe it could be possible.