You were laughing in the sense of gallows humor, or the humor expressed by morgue workers or coroners. Timmy Treadwell was so tragic yet so absurd, the only sane yet sad response is laughter.
+1That is incredibly good writing, and an amazing story. Thanks for posting it, Preacherman.
I watched the movie in a college english class freshman year. Needless to say my rational approach that treating a wild animal like your pet is irresposible, idotic and dangerous only got me a mediocre grade on my paper. The professor didn't seem to understand. She couldn't get off his "Beautiful connection" with bears.
Describing the remains, Ellis sounds like he's struggling for the right words, something to mitigate the horror. "It was way past the initial stages," he tells me. "One or more bears had time to eat most of two bodies and cache the remains. There was no clothing attached to any part. There wasn't much left of anything. We could not tell male from female." When I ask for more detail, he repeats, "We could not tell male from female." Then he says, after a pause, "One part had a watch on it."
"Even his friends worried—they thought he should carry bear spray. But after blasting one charging bear, Cupcake, with pepper spray in 1995, Treadwell refused."
-quote from above article in "Outside" magazine.
Does anyone know what the name was of the bear that killed him?