Human Strength

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Also @Pckts,

I definitely, definitely agree with you on the premise of adrenaline-filled humans (and primates/suids) being able to scare/intimidate animals much greater than their size.

I personally know a few hunter-friends of mine back in the Canadian tundra that scared away hungry mountain lions. One friend named Victor, a skinny, endurance-type 5'4", 145-pound fit dude, managed to scare away a 500-pound brown bear from his bowing supplies by running up to it and shouting at it, but that only ends there.

One time, while Victor, Tyler (a huge fat outdoors man and a great woodcutter) and I were on an excursion to the Rockies (the American ones, not the Canadian ones, mind you), talking about the aforementioned confrontation between the bear and Victor.

I asked Victor whether he could kill that bear with his bare hands (no pun intended), and he replied with these exact words: "F**k no! Hell, even if given all the drugs and testosterone in the world, neither me or my buds Tyler or Norman would even come close to defeating a female one. We'd be screwed in the ass like a lightbulb in its socket!" Of course, us three laughed at Victor's remark, yet at the same time, we realized the truthfulness of his statement. Good times.

I will post more about the 100-pound woman/280-pound wrestler later, but now I have to go to work. Reply