Courageous and strong’ B.C. man dies 3 weeks after fighting off grizzly bear.
A British Columbia man who fought off a grizzly bear in the East Kootenay region this month has died of his injuries, more than three weeks after the attack.
Joe Pendry’s wife, Janice Pendry, says he died on Saturday morning, from what doctors believed was a blood clot that led to cardiac arrest. “I’m just at a loss,” Janice Pendry said. “It’s just hard. It was unexpected. The night before, he was doing just fine. He was laughing, he was kidding. He was sitting up, he was eating, joking around being the old Joe.”
Janice Pendry had said that her husband, a former boxer, had punched and even bitten the bear after it charged him and he shot it in the leg. The bear was driven off and the BC Conservation Officer Service said it was later found dead.
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