While his ATV’s cargo of meat rotted in the January cold;
When Ken Hildebrand found himself stuck out in the Canadian wilderness, the good news was that he had everything with him which would ensure his survival. The bad news was that it was all beyond his reach.
Mr Hildebrand was forced to spend the next three nights trapped under his all-terrain vehicle as temperatures dropped and a hungry pack of wolves circled nearby. “I had everything I needed, but I just couldn’t get to it,” said the 55-year-old, whose ordeal happened in January as he was collecting animal traps from the woods, south of Calgary.
His truck had rolled over, pinning him underneath. He survived by eating rotten animal meat and dirt, and kept warm by using the corpses of the dead animals he had been collecting. He managed to scare off the hyenas and wolves by blowing on a whistle, and was eventually found by hikers.
On his way to referee a hockey game.
This great moment in fact-checking brought to you by reader “hardboiled”.
If it hadn’t been hyenas it would have been jackalopes or sasquatches.
Now now. They could have been escapees from Al Ohmings game farm.
Now whats a hyena doing running lose in canada anyway could it be the work of those wacko mad scientists who want to introduce those afican animals to north america?
Coyotes…the equivalent of hyenas?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/01/22/hildebrand-survivor.html
Imagine that… an error in the media…
Were they hyenas, or Liberals returning from a ski trip in Banff, all expesnses paid, courtesy of Citoyen Dion?? Perhaps the dog was “kyoto the environmetal mutt!!” Just kidding!!
The only hyenas found in Calgary trade natural gas contracts.
Just how did that meat decompose in the frigid winter air?
referees seeing hyenas. that explains some of the calls Ive seen.
Hyenas? I’m in Calgary and have work that takes me all over the area and I can safely say that I haven’t seen any hyenas…
…although…
…Warren Kinsella once lived here so I guess it’s entirely possible…
Thank goodness he wasn’t attacked by a “Chupa Cabra”!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_Cabra
I was raised in Alberta and now live in Saskatchewan. On top of the noticable LACK of hyenas, I have a hard time believing that meat would rot given the temperatures in January. Freezer burn might be the worst he would have to endure.
“Trapped In The Woods South Of Calgary With Hyenas”
Wow Kate! At first I thought it was just another one of your colourful metaphors, but I see you weren’t exaggerating this time!!
What a powerful story!
Fact checkers? We don need no stinkin fact checkers!
A frozen venison lick maybe, but not much in the way of rotting meat I am thinking.
well I know there are lots of “cougars” around Calgary, but Hyenas ??
Maybe it’s new-slang for some special type of transgendered wanna-be who still hasn’t left for Ontario for a free operation.
Were they Laughing Hyenas or the more sober and reserved kind?
damn it, I wondered were those darn hyenas got to after I accidently left the gate to their compound open. Must have hitch hiked all the way from the centre…….. erm, Terana to Newfberta!!!
Let’s also be clear that the part about hungry wolves circling was a lie too.
He managed to scare off the hyenas and wolves
By the former I thought he meant Liberals?
Where’s Farley Mowat when you need him to communicate with a circling beast?
Kate, I think you meant to classify this under “Not Waiting for the Asteroid”
“He managed to scare off the hyenas and wolves by blowing on a whistle, and was eventually found by hikers.”
Hyenas and wolves is a metaphor, meaning “politicians and lawyers”, which makes one wonder why they didn’t use their cell phones to call for help.
We Of course all know it but there is a great lesson here how stories get screwed up.
Poor fella. It’s one thing to have to eat rotten meat, but rotten animal meat? Bleuchh.
I’m a real meat eater, but I will not touch animal meat.
He’s sure lucky that the alligators didn’t get him.
Lucky they found him before the polar bears did.
Eat dirt??? Need your fiber I guess.
Yes, but Hyenas just make for a much better story than circling Bunny Rabbits.
Rotten meat more dramatic than freshly frozen.
Good catch, hardboiled – exposing the media’s spin machine. What sda is all about. “Why This Blog” indeed.
I think you have that confused with “jackal”, Richard.
People don’t you know the planet has gotten so warm that Hyena are now living in Canada?
Geeze you global warming deniers are really something!
Lots of typos…
mmmh…
I blame Bush for my typos!
Go to ILLINIOSE,ALASKA or TEXAS and they have reported realy big birds around there i mean one with a 15 to 25 foot wingspan THE THUNDERBIRD LIVES
SOME OF YOU DON’T GET IT! This is Sci Fi set in a GoreMo Strong, Suzuki dream of a Hari-kari human future where deep greens have populated the overheated plains of Canada with Hyenas and other critters more deserving to live here than humans.
Another piece of misinformation, he wasn’t eating dirt, he was making coffee. The rescuers were heard to say “this coffee tastes like dirt” to which Mr. Hildebrand said, “it should, it was just ground this morning”.
Thanks to Moe, Curly + Larry.
The Independent is a low quality liberal leaning newspaper, can’t afford anyone better to write their stories.
It’s been a while since I lived there, but are there “forests” south of Calgary? I usually drove the other direction, up past High River, etc. Not all that much in the way of deep woods that I remember. But I’m willing to be corrected.
If SUZUKI is from JAPAN he is a disgrace to his nation
Huh?
Suzuki’s a Canadian, plover. As for being a disgrace to his nation, it’s debatable.
How’d Suzuki slip into this thread?
Laughing hyenas should be heard but not spotted.
Good comments from all, thank you.
No, this couldn’t possiby have been Alberta. But perhaps Massachusetts? Somewhere around Hyenas Port?