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You have to keep an eye out on the discovery channel for this clown... Very angry, seemingly gay man, that absolutely loves bears, which in the end was his fatal mistake... They have a 3 hour documentary about him called "grizzley man"

Biography for
Timothy Treadwell

Birth name
Timothy Dexter
Trivia

A self-proclaimed "eco-warrior," Treadwell became famous for trekking to Alaska's Katmai coast to commune with grizzly bears. He would routinely get up close to the bears to chant "I love you" in a high-pitched, sing-song voice. The mauled and partially-eaten bodies of Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were found near their campsite.

Was born on the same day as Daniel Day-Lewis.

A veteran of 13 summers of camping among the Katmai grizzly bears, Treadwell was co-author of "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska", made numerous films about grizzlies and other Alaskan wildlife, maintained an extensive web site about grizzlies, and was the subject of documentaries by the Discovery Channel and Dateline NBC. Treadwell said he decided to devote himself to saving grizzlies after a drug overdose, which inspired him to give up drugs, study bears and establish a non-profit bear-appreciation group called Grizzly People.

A video camera captured the sounds of their last moments, indicating that Treadwell was attacked first.

I saw part of that last night, 2 friends were over, we were cracking up at his rage against the National Forrest Service.... CRAZY doesn't even start to describe him. until that bear came along and chewed the top of his head off.

I think this is worth a grizzly Bump bump

The perfect example of how wild animals are indifferent to our affection. But this man is far from the craziest in the world. There is a woman who lives about fifteen minutes from my house who walks up and down a bike trail screaming about how "Richard Gere kills children" who is far crazier and I doubt she is anywhere near the top.

I’ve seen advertisements for it. I thought the dude was a women at first.:p

The perfect example of how wild animals are indifferent to our affection. But this man is far from the craziest in the world. There is a woman who lives about fifteen minutes from my house who walks up and down a bike trail screaming about how "Richard Gere kills children" who is far crazier and I doubt she is anywhere near the top.

But in the scheme of things, There is The crazy Richard Gere lady, then there is "Crocidile Steve" Irwin, and then there is this loonball, who spent 13 years of his life (9 months of the year, the other three the bears were safely hibernating) protecting bears from other humans, all to have his life ended in one quick swoop by a bear... Surely has to be a nominee for top crazy..

Is this about the guy that made bearsuits? He would be in his costume and being beaten in the hospital time and time again.

But in the scheme of things, There is The crazy Richard Gere lady, then there is "Crocidile Steve" Irwin, and then there is this loonball, who spent 13 years of his life (9 months of the year, the other three the bears were safely hibernating) protecting bears from other humans, all to have his life ended in one quick swoop by a bear... Surely has to be a nominee for top crazy..

But this is a woman who spent who knows how many years (and will likely spend many more) walking up and down a suburban bike trail in the midwest informing random people of the "evils" of Richard Gere. At least Timothy Treadwell knew how to get his message out. And Steve Irwin is a bit eccentric but I wouldn't call him crazy (sure he fed a crocodile when he had a baby in his hands, but is there anyone you'd trust more to do that?).

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad??

Sure he was nuts, but at least he was able to do something with his life rather than become a slave to drugs.

Sure he was nuts, but at least he was able to do something with his life rather than become a slave to drugs.
Makes one question the correlation between his simultaneous giving up of drugs and deciding to go save bears.... Do bears hate drugs, or do drugs hate bears? or both.....

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Makes one question the correlation between his simultaneous giving up of drugs and deciding to go save bears.... Do bears hate drugs, or do drugs hate bears? or both.....

I predict that bears enjoy alcohol, cocaine, and opiates; are ambivalent towards cannabis, and dislike hallucinogens.

I would like to personaly congradulate those bears for cleansing our planet of one more waste of carbons.

I would like to personaly congradulate those bears for cleansing our planet of one more waste of carbons.
One would like to say that, but at the same time, the bear was in a sense littering, as sure he chewed the top of the man's head off, but really left the body there to rot, as well as that of the girlfriend, (whom one would think would have run). There is nothing worse than a bear that litters....

Smokey would be rolling in his grave..

One would like to say that, but at the same time, the bear was in a sense littering, as sure he chewed the top of the man's head off, but really left the body there to rot, as well as that of the girlfriend, (whom one would think would have run). There is nothing worse than a bear that litters....

Smokey would be rolling in his grave..

I'm am literally laughing my ass off.

One would like to say that, but at the same time, the bear was in a sense littering, as sure he chewed the top of the man's head off, but really left the body there to rot, as well as that of the girlfriend, (whom one would think would have run). There is nothing worse than a bear that litters....

Smokey would be rolling in his grave..

But his body would turn into a compost pile; so the bear was doing the environmentally friendly thing.

YOu know,its on right now and my husband and I have been flipping back and forth between that and shawshank redemption...dude is completely nuts---should be getting to the point where he gets eaten soon......

I don't know about anyone else, but there was part of the documentary where he came upon these big piles of stones (roughly brick to cylinder block size stones) that were stacked up neatly, and some of the stones had drawings of smile faces etched in them, and all the while I kept running just how those crazy bears would have been able to even get a pen/pencil, much less draw the picture. I can see pesky bears stacking rocks, as we all know bears are rock stacking fools, but the drawings?? that smiley face was screaming "poseable thumbs" if you ask me...

I think............ George Bush is the Craziest man in the world..............:D

YOu know,its on right now and my husband and I have been flipping back and forth between that and shawshank redemption...dude is completely nuts---should be getting to the point where he gets eaten soon......
You never actually get to see him getting eaten, although they do mention it is on film somewhere. They do speculate about which bear may have eaten him. I think Grissom and Sarah from CSI would have had that bear downtown by now.. amateur alaskans..

I think............ George Bush is the Craziest man in the world..............:D

While it is nice that you are figuring anyone whose political beliefs that disagree with yours is crazy (typical elitist move) you would have to probably either have to go visit the crazy Richard Gere lady, possibly hang out with Crocodile Steve, or maybe visit the Alaskan "Grizzley Maze" with the Grizzley man to really become an official on this level of craziness... goes a whole different level above mere political beliefs...

Actually, Bush may be dumber than granite, but he isn't insane.

And don't go after him, Danmarc. I almost think he's right.

But for true craziness... I have to nominate the following person:

Name: ??? (I have no clue what his name is)

Age: 36

Occupation: Matinence at US Air Force base, New Mexico

Claim to Fame:

Mr. Unknown (Let's call him that) decided to break a land speed record. Thus, he stole two JATO (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) rockets from the airforce base he worked at. These make big bombers take off on short runways.

He then strapped them to his car, drove at maximum speed for a few seconds, and ignited the rockets.

Almost breaking the record, he noticed something up ahead...

A cliff.

He never had time to bail out. He was found in various pieces around the crash site. The car? Well... if you can call ash and chunks of metal a car...

You never actually get to see him getting eaten, although they do mention it is on film somewhere. They do speculate about which bear may have eaten him. I think Grissom and Sarah from CSI would have had that bear downtown by now.. amateur alaskans..

funny....yeah, I guess you don't see him getting eaten or hear him...maybe it is morbid, but with all the hype about how horrible the tape sounds, makes me want to hear it even more....

EDIT: This guy is completely insane- he is talking to the fox about the Rosie O DOnnell show.....WTF???? Timm-EEYY

So, did he do it for the fame or really for the animals?

Hmmm, thinking of a Jerry Springer style "The secret bear tapes" edition of the Grizzley Man, where you get to see A: the bear eating him, and B: Find out that he is the biological father of one of the Bear cubs, you know, Butchy, the bear cub that could talk.... It seemed obvious when I saw the show, but I was kind of trying to push the Beastiality thoughts to the back of the mind, hoping this man that lived with the bears did it just for his pleutonic love of bears..
and his hatred for drugs.

That guy hasn't got shit on the 'Bashi (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3142311.stm).
Still, the documentary pissed me off. I wathed about 30 minutes of that hippie twat having fits because someone left a smilie face written somwhere, because it seems that smilies are a threat on one's life, these days, and, wait, what's that?
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) OH NOES!!!!!!! :) :) I'm under attack!! :)
Sorry, couldn't help myself . . .

Anyway, moving right along, I watched him whine and play with bear poo, only to have what was to be the piece de la resistance of the whole affair torn away from me by some stupid woman (seems she was a "relative", or something) who wouldn't let the sound recordings of his death be publicized.
Damn you Discovery, you have deprived me of my senseless brutality for the last time!

funny....yeah, I guess you don't see him getting eaten or hear him...maybe it is morbid, but with all the hype about how horrible the tape sounds, makes me want to hear it even more....

EDIT: This guy is completely insane- he is talking to the fox about the Rosie O DOnnell show.....WTF???? Timm-EEYY

So, did he do it for the fame or really for the animals?


One would almost have to question if it wasnt for the fame, as God knows there isnt alot of money in being a friend to bears, and one did chew the top of his head off, so he may have not had all the right moves.. I thought maybe it was one of those Jenny Jones "bad kids bootcamp shows" but all discovery channelled up where the drill sergeant was replaced by a 1500 lb. grizzley bear.. I could always be wrong...

WAS the craziest man in the world. Past tense. Now he's the corpse of the former craziest man in the world. Well, mostly. Some of him is bear stool somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness. I'm sure the guy feels good that part of him will remain in the pristine forest forever. Maybe a new tree will grow in the stool he's a part of. :)

Kind of touching, isn't it?

Meanwhile, the search is on for the new Craziest Man in the World. I'm preparing my videotape right now. :)

Actually, Bush may be dumber than granite, but he isn't insane.

And don't go after him, Danmarc. I almost think he's right.

But for true craziness... I have to nominate the following person:

Name: ??? (I have no clue what his name is)

Age: 36

Occupation: Matinence at US Air Force base, New Mexico

Claim to Fame:

Mr. Unknown (Let's call him that) decided to break a land speed record. Thus, he stole two JATO (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) rockets from the airforce base he worked at. These make big bombers take off on short runways.

He then strapped them to his car, drove at maximum speed for a few seconds, and ignited the rockets.

Almost breaking the record, he noticed something up ahead...

A cliff.

He never had time to bail out. He was found in various pieces around the crash site. The car? Well... if you can call ash and chunks of metal a car...
They had this story in Darwin and it was listed as an Urban Legend.

One would almost have to question if it wasnt for the fame, as God knows there isnt alot of money in being a friend to bears, and one did chew the top of his head off, so he may have not had all the right moves.. I thought maybe it was one of those Jenny Jones "bad kids bootcamp shows" but all discovery channelled up where the drill sergeant was replaced by a 1500 lb. grizzley bear.. I could always be wrong...
Can you imagine the work of keeping a litter-box ... for either of them??? :eek:

Actually, Bush may be dumber than granite, but he isn't insane.

And don't go after him, Danmarc. I almost think he's right.

But for true craziness... I have to nominate the following person:

Name: ??? (I have no clue what his name is)

Age: 36

Occupation: Matinence at US Air Force base, New Mexico

Claim to Fame:

Mr. Unknown (Let's call him that) decided to break a land speed record. Thus, he stole two JATO (Jet-Assisted Take-Off) rockets from the airforce base he worked at. These make big bombers take off on short runways.

He then strapped them to his car, drove at maximum speed for a few seconds, and ignited the rockets.

Almost breaking the record, he noticed something up ahead...

A cliff.

He never had time to bail out. He was found in various pieces around the crash site. The car? Well... if you can call ash and chunks of metal a car...
They had this story in Darwin and it was listed as an Urban Legend.
Also: http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

WAS the craziest man in the world. Past tense. Now he's the corpse of the former craziest man in the world. Well, mostly. Some of him is bear stool somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness. I'm sure the guy feels good that part of him will remain in the pristine forest forever. Maybe a new tree will grow in the stool he's a part of. :)

Kind of touching, isn't it?

Meanwhile, the search is on for the new Craziest Man in the World. I'm preparing my videotape right now. :)
Good luck w'dat! Just don't expect me to clean your litter-box! :p

We have to re-rank these crazies here. Here is my best attempt.

The Grizzley Man
The Rocket-car guy
The Richard Gere hating(but dedicated) older woman
Crocidile Steve

Please let me know if I left anything out, these are very important, and could change the world as we know it..

Given crazy grizzley guy's sorted past with drug addiction, is it possible this whole Bear story is a coverup for his Bear guarded Meth lab deep in the woods of Alaska? Just think, he could be brewing a batch (I guess a batch is the appropriate term for a portion of meth, feel free to correct me) and was then going out to sell the stuff to the kiddies in the winter while the bears were fast asleep and none the wiser that he was actually an evil bear abusing drug pusher.

We have to re-rank these crazies here. Here is my best attempt.

The Grizzley Man
The Rocket-car guy
The Richard Gere hating(but dedicated) older woman
Crocidile Steve

Please let me know if I left anything out, these are very important, and could change the world as we know it..
dont forget this guy: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=470896

We have to re-rank these crazies here. Here is my best attempt.

The Grizzley Man
The Rocket-car guy
The Richard Gere hating(but dedicated) older woman
Crocidile Steve

Please let me know if I left anything out, these are very important, and could change the world as we know it..

Please be careful when you are ranking crazies. Just think in terms of bedspace. If there were only 3 beds left in a crazy farm, but the four of these individuals left, I think I too would feel best about having rocket-car guy, the anti-gerite (kind of like an anti-semite, but classier) and the bear lover behind the padded walls, and allow Crocidile Steve free to roam the prairies and swamps, all the while endangering children. Just think, he is really doing more of a public service, as it was his own devil spawn that he was waiving around like croc-bait... Good decisions Plague.. you may have just saved earth..

dont forget this guy: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=470896
you make a valid point, but you have to be careful when throwing in the criminally insane with the just plain crazies. Pedofiles are pretty rampant, but bear loving irate homosexuals are few and far between.

you make a valid point, but you have to be careful when throwing in the criminally insane with the just plain crazies. Pedofiles are pretty rampant, but bear loving irate homosexuals are few and far between.
its almost like a minor league system for the criminally insane, as the criminals have finetuned a skill, such as raping. It appears the rapist guy was very proficient in his "trade" as to where the bear man was mauled to death by a bear, thus still having a ways to go in his craft. Make sense?

Please let me know if I left anything out, these are very important, and could change the world as we know it..
The Turkmenbashi has to be placed at the top. Yeah, getting eaten by grizzlies is pretty crazy, but the 'Bashi really, really likes melons (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3142311.stm) and really, really doesn't like beards. (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2276C24A-FDF0-4055-8FDF-629EF7DB4DDC.htm)

Does anybody know what kind of drugs the bear guy was using? The fact that he overdosed seems to suggest it was heroin (or a related opiate) or meth.

I predict that bears enjoy alcohol, cocaine, and opiates; are ambivalent towards cannabis, and dislike hallucinogens.
There was a bear out in Olympia that came upon what was supposed to be an outting of some sort. It drank all of the Rainer Beer and left all but one can of the other brand, then climbed a near by tree to sleep it off. So yes, bears do like to drink, but they also have standards when they can afford them.

The bear guy is nuts, but he meant well.

His girlfriend was killed too and its partially video taped,audio taped.

And now, someone is making some dough on it.

Sure he was nuts, but at least he was able to do something with his life rather than become a slave to drugs.
What did he do other than get eaten and posthumously star as a crazy bastard in a Werner Herzog documentary?

I still think the craziest man is that Mr. Manglewurzel I read about in a Reader's Digest. I guess he lives (lived?) in Britain and drove a school bus with a windmill attached to it.

I still think the craziest man is that Mr. Manglewurzel I read about in a Reader's Digest. I guess he lives (lived?) in Britain and drove a school bus with a windmill attached to it.
That's not crazy. Some of us like the assurance that we've a Wind Mill with us all the time, just in case. You never can tell, when you'll encounter some unmilled wind, and then wouldn't you feel silly if you left your windmill at home?

This calls for a joke. It involves bears, drugs and eating people, so dontcha dare say i am off topic!

A bear walks into a bar, and goes up to the bartender and asks for a beer. The bartender says, "sorry, we dont serve bears in here"
The bear says, "come on mac! All I want is a nice frosty beer!"
The bartender again says, "no way. I told you, we dont serve bears in here."

The bear growls and says, "look, I a hard working bear, I just got off work, and i need to wind down. You serve me one lousy beer, or i am going over to that drunken woman sitting there, and i am going to rip off her head, and eat her guts too!"

The bartender says, "well, I cant stop you, and I aint serving you a beer!"

So the beer walks over to the woman, rips off her head, and eats her guts. then he goes back to the bartender and says, "NOW! You see how serious I am! Gimme a damned beer!"

The bartender looks at him and says.... "we dont serve drug users here."

"Huh?" says the bear. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"That was a bar bitch you ate."