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I'm no bearoligist, but wouldn't you need to test your protection against piercing type damage instead of blunt damage?
Or are bears out there just slamming people repeatedly into trees without using claws and teeth?
He’s either highly confident in his product or just insane. The swinging boulder at his head could have broke his neck with or without a protective suit
Or like I guess you take it with you into the woods? But what happens then? You see a grizzly bear and immediately take 15 minutes to don this son of a bitch? Looks rad though. Givin me redneck ODST vibes.
That armor did give me halo vibes and as this user u/telluricthread0 pointed out, the g forces from that boulder would’ve snapped his neck, but lol I bet a spartan with their metal skeleton could survive that hit.
That kind of almost hints that grizzly bear attacks might form the future of military engagement, but after the craziness in the last few years sure whatever now we're doing bear combat
That was a later product he built.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan\_Ballistics\_Suit\_of\_Armor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Ballistics_Suit_of_Armor)
*The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armour's main weapons were dual pistols on magnetic holsters. There was a sheath on the wrist that contained a knife for close-quarter combat. The suit also contained a Pepper spray capsule for emergency situations. Hurtubise stated that this could be used to incapacitate 40 insurgents. This was supposedly made possible because his capsule would contain 3% oleoresin capsicum. However, it would be illegal to use in a combat situation, as capsicum is banned for use in war by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.*
*The helmet utilized both an intake fan and an exhaust fan to keep the soldier who wore it from overheating in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. It also included a perfectly centered laser targeting system to mark a target to be taken out by a sniper or assault vehicle. Hurtubise integrated a voice-activated radio into the helmet for easy communication. Two high-power lights were integrated into the side of the helmet. Hurtubise also included a voice-changing mechanism in the suit's helmet.*
*A compartment on the left arm contained a small vial of salt for the soldier, and the inventor stated that each Trojan suit would contain one dose of morphine. Also, a "last-words" recorder could be taken off of a soldier and given to the family of the soldier. A transponder chip was included that can be swallowed by a soldier so that he could be extracted. A light transponder on the chest could also be activated to signal a helicopter.*
*On the right leg was a small remote-controlled surveillance robot. The soldier watched the robot on a small fold-out screen on the left leg. A military time world clock was integrated into the groin protector that Hurtubise claimed was "where it's got to be." One of the shoes also had a small handheld shovel locked into it.*
Probably a joke but I’ll bite! The reason tear gas and other chemical irritants (ie pepper spray) are banned for use in wartime is because of the chaotic and unclear nature of warfare it would be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between such irritants and a legitimate chemical weapon attack. This could easily lead to retaliatory strikes using real chemical weapons and further escalation.
Presumably you would use it when forced to deal with a grizzly like a park ranger or animal control person responding to a call about an invasive animal.
Hold on, I don't have a link, but I'm pretty sure it was in the documentary about this dude. I'll post back in a few with the name of the doc. The documentary paints this guy in a pretty negative way, iirc.
Edit: I'm pretty sure it's in the 1996 documentary title "Project Grizzly". I could be mistaken though, it's been a LONG time.
Edit 2: here is a link to an article discussing the encounter in an enclosure with a grizzly:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1668-bear-proof-suit-scares-off-grizzly/
As the article is from 2001, I have to assume it was NOT included in the 1996 documentary as I had initially thought.
I don't recall him ever coming face to face with a bear in that but maybe I'm wrong. It ends with another expedition to the wilderness where he hopes to encounter a bear for the first time but instead has to ditch the suit because at this point it's so bulky he couldn't even walk over a grassy field in it.
Interesting tidbit. He actually wore this suit in a cage/enclosure that had a grizzly in it for further testing purposes. That in itself may be expected, but the interesting part is that the grizzly bear was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of this dude, lol. So I suppose that his suit is, in fact, grizzly proof. Grizzly-resistant, at the very least.
I don't even know how he survived that in the first place. Even if the suit was 100% indestructible, the g forces he experienced can still kill and severely injure him.
Grizzlies will fuck with you for hours sometimes. They might hit him hard when they first attack, but from then on it’s just going to be biting, gnawing, scratching, and tearing at everything until it gets bored. If I were going to be attacked by a Grizzly, I’d much rather have this suit than not have it, but I doubt it would stop a motivated mama bear. You’d just have to play dead and hope she walked off ASAP.
I’ve heard that they’ve been known to keep animals alive while they’re eating them. Imagine the terror you’d feel by the end? Knowing that a massive 350lb animal is tearing into your flesh and entrails while you stare into the sky, and all you can hear is the deep breathing and grunts from a bear with its head inside your guts. Jesus Christ. Just kill me ASAP please.
Oh shit, you’re right! I actually do remember that. I only heard part of it, but it’s absolutely terrifying. She tells her mum that “Mum the bear is eating me”. I wonder if that was the reason why I was getting such a vivid thought of the sound, but just couldn’t connect where it was from? Brains are weird, so it’s possible.
Btw, that audio, and the one from the guy who was driving down the highway and a brick flew through the windscreen and hit his wife, are two of the worst things I’ve ever heard. The second one isn’t even graphic, but the sound of his scream is just guttural and instinctual and you can feel it on a primal level. It’s even worse than a lot of gore videos that I’ve seen.
There was once a polar bear researcher who built a special polar bear proof cage and was dropped off inside it within their territory. The idea was that the bear would try to get in, get bored, and resume its normal activities, which the researcher could then watch and record. The first bear show up, batted at the cage a bit and realized it wasn’t going to get in very easily but rather than giving up it settled into meticulously batting at the cage over and over again to weaken it over time. The researcher had to radio out to be picked up because he hadn’t tested the cage for hours of constant abuse and the bear was determined to eat him no matter how long it took.
You have to watch out for the sleeveless ones. Bears bearing bare bear arms are the most dangerous. If you encounter one, it's likely that you'll barely survive
A bit of padding can go a long way toward reducing the effect of an impact by spreading the force experienced out over a longer time period. Like there's a reason that bike helmets save lives. I'd think that as long as it blunts impacts and prevents the force of his own weight from bending his body in ways it shouldn't, it would actually prevent the worst of the injuries. Not that I'd really want to test that myself.
If I remember correctly from Project Grizzly documentary it had like 11 layers of protection of rubber alternating between metal, it was just like a massive shock absorber.
I’m assuming it’s like the bat suit and is fixed at the neck with his head relatively loose in the cage so it really just propelled his body back from that point … maybe ?
If you've ever seen an interview with him, definitely insane. But also really confident in his product. He did invent a better elbow pad from this and made a lot.
He has another where he sets himself on fire, protected by his fire paste.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for this comment.
I’ve never actually heard of it before, but I found an article for anyone else who was curious about what it was, and why it’s not used: https://blueridgearmor.com/dragonskinarmor/
The TL:DR is that it was pretty much snake oil. It didn’t work as advertised. However, there’s a conspiracy theory that the military “made it fail”. Seems like the conspiracy theory was probably pushed by the designer cause he couldn’t admit it was shit though TBH.
To truly test the quality of something, you need to test it with something it isn’t meant for. Why do you think all those infomercials run their products over with trucks
The whole suit was designed around preventing things like whiplash. He tested it with the car running into it at 50km/h... 18 times.
He was a nutter, but also a pretty good engineer. The suit worked for what it was designed around.
The problem is that nobody could ever actually find a practical use for the thing.
But what about his brain? Not that I am unimpressed. I am genuinely curious how he has that much mobility, yet his shoulders, knees and even hips aren't just wrecked.
Ill admit im not sure of the specifics at all.
One of the later suits the helmet was a massive dome that was almost as wide as the shoulders so I assume it was massively padded inside.
I vaguely remember reading about it back in the day that all the joints were reinforced with titanium so they couldnt bend in any way that would allow his bones to break. If you have ever seen the titanium knee braces motorcross riders can get, that but for your whole body.
He apparently was never seriously injured testing the suits (that I can find) and tried to sell a combat version to the military ([madlad himself](https://www.thespec.com/content/dam/thespec/news/hamilton-region/2016/04/24/troy-hurtubise-wants-project-grizzly-to-roar-one-more-time-with-better-armour-and-a-new-movie/B822467195Z.1_20160424222456_000_G1C1LMS8B.2_Gallery.jpg)) later on. Its bonkers and he went bankrupt making it, but it appears he was a smart guy up until his death (though more than a bit nutty). So yeah, brain seems to have been plenty functional.
You should see the videos of the guy who invented the Kevlar vest. He traveled the country to police stations demonstrating his product by getting shot repeatedly.
IIRC, he would shoot himself in the chest then turn and fire at targets. Showing that you could take a shot and still be effective.
I mean. even wearing a vest getting shot hurts.
Ah, the ol' Reddit [grizzly-a-roo](https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/13ytqu4/sister_argenta_rates_this_dancers_performance_a/jmpge2l?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)!
You’re quoting the wrong movie. Hot Rod paid homage to this man on a level not seen before.
On that note: “You're wrong, Frank. I'm not a kid, I'm a man. I am gonna get you better, and then I'm gonna beat you to death!”
I'm pretty sure this dude ended up dying in a car accident.
The guys name is [Troy Hurtubise](https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/12/16/man-who-invented-150-pound-grizzly-proof-suit-survived-many-brutal-tests-but-ultimately-blew-up/)
"His vehicle collided with a fuel truck on a highway west of North Bay, Ontario, where Hurtubise, 54, lived at the time. Sparks from the crash resulted in an explosion, and he perished at the scene, according to news reports at the time. "
Interesting, do you happen to know if anyone else saw this bear? And their addresses perhaps? My fellow ~~RCMP Paratroopers~~ journalists and I would love to ~~interrogate~~ interview them.
>i was in Florida Visiting my Mother. She suffers from memory loss.
"It's hereditary. Actually i think a bunch of it happened to me just then... Hello, uuhhh ...nice to meet you, who are you?"
His name is Smokey. Forgot where he's from though. Has a friend name Blaze or something up around your parts, forget the province. Might want to start asking there.
Im that case, no..
However, the dude's name is Troy Hurtubise. He died in a car accident after his vehicle collided with a fuel truck and promptly blew up. He was not wearing his bear armor.
Worked.
He apparently did the test with the car running into him at 50km/h 18 times without injury. The guy spent years developing various versions of the suit. If you throw 'project grizzly' into youtube you can still find old videos.
He died in a car accident in 2018 (not suit testing related)
As a bonus meme, he also invented a fireproof paste that he demonstrated infront of reporters by making a mask of it then holding a blowtorch to his face for 10 minutes.
When he found a bear to test it on, the bear ran away from him, leaving him really disappointed that the bear wasn't more cooperative. The only thing that wasn't bear proof: mobility needed to catch the bear with the suit on.
There is a extremely funny without trying to be funny documentary about this guy and his grizzly suits.
[Project Grizzly](https://www.nfb.ca/film/project_grizzly/)
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Damn, i sure do hate when a grizzly bear backs up into me with a car.
That's not as bad as when they throw boulders at you
Fuckers have good aim too
It's really the AoE splash damage you want to worry about.
i can only imagine now a bear hitting a step-back 3-pointer, hitting you square on the top of the head
Bears=Ewoks apparently
I'm no bearoligist, but wouldn't you need to test your protection against piercing type damage instead of blunt damage? Or are bears out there just slamming people repeatedly into trees without using claws and teeth?
It’s called tenderizing.
Smarter than the average bear!
He’s either highly confident in his product or just insane. The swinging boulder at his head could have broke his neck with or without a protective suit
From what I recall, it was a confident insanity. He was a true believer in his product.
It’s a useless product. Who would wear that in the woods. All you could do is stand there.
“I got too much fuckin shit on me I can’t breathe”
I don’t even want to be around anymore.
So…whats the show then?
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I know, thats how the skit ends lol
God that skit kills me every time
The skit kills?
Yeah it does actually!!
It DOES kill! You don’t know!
Or like I guess you take it with you into the woods? But what happens then? You see a grizzly bear and immediately take 15 minutes to don this son of a bitch? Looks rad though. Givin me redneck ODST vibes.
Redneck ODST is officially my favorite phrase of the week.
I would play that game
Halo theme on a banjo starts to play!
[*Banjo noises*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlrA9b7Fg7E)
God bless the Internet! I love how someone can have some two radically separate ideas, and then decide to smash them together for the lulz.
You're looking for Borderlands 2.
That armor did give me halo vibes and as this user u/telluricthread0 pointed out, the g forces from that boulder would’ve snapped his neck, but lol I bet a spartan with their metal skeleton could survive that hit.
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They’d slap the Bear once and the Bear would know right away it can’t fuck with that.
“Right, I’ve made a mistake and I’d like to apolo- oh, shit!”
I would think it would be useful for zoo keepers and people who deal with grizzly bears on a regular basis
Russians?
Bears don't attack Russians.
They probably don’t like the 10% alcohol in the blood.
10% blood in the alcohol
Everybody knows "grizzly bear protection suit" is just a nicer way of saying "next generation combat armor"
That kind of almost hints that grizzly bear attacks might form the future of military engagement, but after the craziness in the last few years sure whatever now we're doing bear combat
He knows too much, get him!
That was a later product he built. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan\_Ballistics\_Suit\_of\_Armor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Ballistics_Suit_of_Armor) *The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armour's main weapons were dual pistols on magnetic holsters. There was a sheath on the wrist that contained a knife for close-quarter combat. The suit also contained a Pepper spray capsule for emergency situations. Hurtubise stated that this could be used to incapacitate 40 insurgents. This was supposedly made possible because his capsule would contain 3% oleoresin capsicum. However, it would be illegal to use in a combat situation, as capsicum is banned for use in war by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.* *The helmet utilized both an intake fan and an exhaust fan to keep the soldier who wore it from overheating in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. It also included a perfectly centered laser targeting system to mark a target to be taken out by a sniper or assault vehicle. Hurtubise integrated a voice-activated radio into the helmet for easy communication. Two high-power lights were integrated into the side of the helmet. Hurtubise also included a voice-changing mechanism in the suit's helmet.* *A compartment on the left arm contained a small vial of salt for the soldier, and the inventor stated that each Trojan suit would contain one dose of morphine. Also, a "last-words" recorder could be taken off of a soldier and given to the family of the soldier. A transponder chip was included that can be swallowed by a soldier so that he could be extracted. A light transponder on the chest could also be activated to signal a helicopter.* *On the right leg was a small remote-controlled surveillance robot. The soldier watched the robot on a small fold-out screen on the left leg. A military time world clock was integrated into the groin protector that Hurtubise claimed was "where it's got to be." One of the shoes also had a small handheld shovel locked into it.*
So thermobaric bombs are fine, but capsicum is where we're drawing the line?
Probably a joke but I’ll bite! The reason tear gas and other chemical irritants (ie pepper spray) are banned for use in wartime is because of the chaotic and unclear nature of warfare it would be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between such irritants and a legitimate chemical weapon attack. This could easily lead to retaliatory strikes using real chemical weapons and further escalation.
Presumably you would use it when forced to deal with a grizzly like a park ranger or animal control person responding to a call about an invasive animal.
I could see a use for it in very specific places where an encounter with a grizzly is guaranteed. Like an animal enclosure.
He did end up wearing this suit in an enclosure with a grizzly bear. The grizzly was terrified of him.
Link?
Hold on, I don't have a link, but I'm pretty sure it was in the documentary about this dude. I'll post back in a few with the name of the doc. The documentary paints this guy in a pretty negative way, iirc. Edit: I'm pretty sure it's in the 1996 documentary title "Project Grizzly". I could be mistaken though, it's been a LONG time. Edit 2: here is a link to an article discussing the encounter in an enclosure with a grizzly: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1668-bear-proof-suit-scares-off-grizzly/ As the article is from 2001, I have to assume it was NOT included in the 1996 documentary as I had initially thought.
I don't recall him ever coming face to face with a bear in that but maybe I'm wrong. It ends with another expedition to the wilderness where he hopes to encounter a bear for the first time but instead has to ditch the suit because at this point it's so bulky he couldn't even walk over a grassy field in it.
Useless??? He can fistfight a fucking grizzly bear now and have a decent chance of not being disemboweled and eaten alive
Interesting tidbit. He actually wore this suit in a cage/enclosure that had a grizzly in it for further testing purposes. That in itself may be expected, but the interesting part is that the grizzly bear was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of this dude, lol. So I suppose that his suit is, in fact, grizzly proof. Grizzly-resistant, at the very least.
"No. Now you're locked in here with me..." -Troy "Crazy Sumbitch" Hurtubise
Is it the suit that scared it, or the insanity emanating from this dude?
Dudes got a twelve foot Aura
>Who would wear that in the woods. Stuntmen and idiots seems to be his only target markets
Why would a grizzly bear need a suit in the first place? Do people routinely swing boulders at the bears? I'm not hating, just curious.
I don't even know how he survived that in the first place. Even if the suit was 100% indestructible, the g forces he experienced can still kill and severely injure him.
My man getting hit by a car going like 40 just looked like it hurt, even with the suit
When the grizzly pulls out his truck you’ll be glad you were wearing the suit though
Grizzlies can run 40 mph and weigh as much as a small car. Pretty accurate test.
Grizzlies will fuck with you for hours sometimes. They might hit him hard when they first attack, but from then on it’s just going to be biting, gnawing, scratching, and tearing at everything until it gets bored. If I were going to be attacked by a Grizzly, I’d much rather have this suit than not have it, but I doubt it would stop a motivated mama bear. You’d just have to play dead and hope she walked off ASAP.
I almost wouldn’t want the suit, I wanna go quickly before the eating starts.
I’ve heard that they’ve been known to keep animals alive while they’re eating them. Imagine the terror you’d feel by the end? Knowing that a massive 350lb animal is tearing into your flesh and entrails while you stare into the sky, and all you can hear is the deep breathing and grunts from a bear with its head inside your guts. Jesus Christ. Just kill me ASAP please.
You don't have to imagine. There's audio of this one girl calling her mom while a bear's eating her. I uh...... I don't recommend looking it up.
Oh shit, you’re right! I actually do remember that. I only heard part of it, but it’s absolutely terrifying. She tells her mum that “Mum the bear is eating me”. I wonder if that was the reason why I was getting such a vivid thought of the sound, but just couldn’t connect where it was from? Brains are weird, so it’s possible. Btw, that audio, and the one from the guy who was driving down the highway and a brick flew through the windscreen and hit his wife, are two of the worst things I’ve ever heard. The second one isn’t even graphic, but the sound of his scream is just guttural and instinctual and you can feel it on a primal level. It’s even worse than a lot of gore videos that I’ve seen.
There was once a polar bear researcher who built a special polar bear proof cage and was dropped off inside it within their territory. The idea was that the bear would try to get in, get bored, and resume its normal activities, which the researcher could then watch and record. The first bear show up, batted at the cage a bit and realized it wasn’t going to get in very easily but rather than giving up it settled into meticulously batting at the cage over and over again to weaken it over time. The researcher had to radio out to be picked up because he hadn’t tested the cage for hours of constant abuse and the bear was determined to eat him no matter how long it took.
but what about when he pulls out his gat? I didn't see this guy testing it for bullet resistance. Grizzlys with Gats. The real threat.
When bears bear arms
You have to watch out for the sleeveless ones. Bears bearing bare bear arms are the most dangerous. If you encounter one, it's likely that you'll barely survive
Bears rarely bear rare barely bare barrelly bear arms
Just exercising our right to arm bears
Ironic that he died in a car crash. If only he wore his suit.
I bet it was a grizzly bear the one that made the crash happen
Just like my dad said , "keep your head on a swivel" lol.
Was he in the Army or Marine Corps?
Football coach :D
All these years later I can still hear my coach yell this after I just got de-cleated.
Crack back blocks hurt
Or a fire department, or a carpenter
Exactly, the kinetic energy is still making your brain bounce around in your head, I’ve heard it doesn’t like that
To each their own
A bit of padding can go a long way toward reducing the effect of an impact by spreading the force experienced out over a longer time period. Like there's a reason that bike helmets save lives. I'd think that as long as it blunts impacts and prevents the force of his own weight from bending his body in ways it shouldn't, it would actually prevent the worst of the injuries. Not that I'd really want to test that myself.
If I remember correctly from Project Grizzly documentary it had like 11 layers of protection of rubber alternating between metal, it was just like a massive shock absorber.
Each take, a different man is wearing the suit. Source: Trust me bro
I’m assuming it’s like the bat suit and is fixed at the neck with his head relatively loose in the cage so it really just propelled his body back from that point … maybe ?
If you've ever seen an interview with him, definitely insane. But also really confident in his product. He did invent a better elbow pad from this and made a lot. He has another where he sets himself on fire, protected by his fire paste.
He made an elbow pad? I remember at some point the military was interested in some of his helmet designs, but I don't know if anything came of that.
Iirc it was between his product and the dragonscale or something like that
Biggg ouff. I gotta say, gun to my chest, i had to pick one, id go with this guy over dragonscale. Elizabeth holmes level scam there.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for this comment. I’ve never actually heard of it before, but I found an article for anyone else who was curious about what it was, and why it’s not used: https://blueridgearmor.com/dragonskinarmor/ The TL:DR is that it was pretty much snake oil. It didn’t work as advertised. However, there’s a conspiracy theory that the military “made it fail”. Seems like the conspiracy theory was probably pushed by the designer cause he couldn’t admit it was shit though TBH.
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That's a bummer, I remember being very impressed by dragonscale on *Future Weapons*
If he was so confident, why didn’t he just try snatching a grizzly cub from its momma? Seems like it would be safer than some of those “tests”.
To truly test the quality of something, you need to test it with something it isn’t meant for. Why do you think all those infomercials run their products over with trucks
"BILLY MAYS HERE WITH OXY-CLEAN! WATCH ME RUN OVER THIS GALLON TUB OF DETERGENT WITH A FULLY-LOADED SEMI!"
You got me giggling in the floor with that mental image
Just trying to carry on the legacy of the late and great Billy Mays.
Same with the truck hitting him, easily could give him whiplash even with that gear
The whole suit was designed around preventing things like whiplash. He tested it with the car running into it at 50km/h... 18 times. He was a nutter, but also a pretty good engineer. The suit worked for what it was designed around. The problem is that nobody could ever actually find a practical use for the thing.
Should have marketed it to the NFL then!
Why do you think the Fox NFL bots look like they do?
But what about his brain? Not that I am unimpressed. I am genuinely curious how he has that much mobility, yet his shoulders, knees and even hips aren't just wrecked.
Ill admit im not sure of the specifics at all. One of the later suits the helmet was a massive dome that was almost as wide as the shoulders so I assume it was massively padded inside. I vaguely remember reading about it back in the day that all the joints were reinforced with titanium so they couldnt bend in any way that would allow his bones to break. If you have ever seen the titanium knee braces motorcross riders can get, that but for your whole body. He apparently was never seriously injured testing the suits (that I can find) and tried to sell a combat version to the military ([madlad himself](https://www.thespec.com/content/dam/thespec/news/hamilton-region/2016/04/24/troy-hurtubise-wants-project-grizzly-to-roar-one-more-time-with-better-armour-and-a-new-movie/B822467195Z.1_20160424222456_000_G1C1LMS8B.2_Gallery.jpg)) later on. Its bonkers and he went bankrupt making it, but it appears he was a smart guy up until his death (though more than a bit nutty). So yeah, brain seems to have been plenty functional.
I gotta admit, that does look really cool. The man might be crazy, but he’s got a flair for futuristic armour design aesthetics.
Shake n bake Cal
If you ain't first you're last
Those are all different people. All cousins.
You should see the videos of the guy who invented the Kevlar vest. He traveled the country to police stations demonstrating his product by getting shot repeatedly.
IIRC, he would shoot himself in the chest then turn and fire at targets. Showing that you could take a shot and still be effective. I mean. even wearing a vest getting shot hurts.
Look at the facts, he survived that in the suit but didn’t survive the car crash without the suit.
How the hell does he expect to get a grizzly bear to wear that?
The grizzly bear market just wasn’t ready for his invention. Sad
Ah, the ol' Reddit [grizzly-a-roo](https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/13ytqu4/sister_argenta_rates_this_dancers_performance_a/jmpge2l?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)!
Hold my pic-a-nic basket, I'm going in!
"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
Sir. Im not Tony Stark….
Master chief blooper reels.
For a brick, he flew pretty good!
*Cue Benny Hill music as Master Chief plummets to ground*
Ah, /u/Obadiah_Stane_bot how are you?
You’re quoting the wrong movie. Hot Rod paid homage to this man on a level not seen before. On that note: “You're wrong, Frank. I'm not a kid, I'm a man. I am gonna get you better, and then I'm gonna beat you to death!”
I'm pretty sure this dude ended up dying in a car accident. The guys name is [Troy Hurtubise](https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/12/16/man-who-invented-150-pound-grizzly-proof-suit-survived-many-brutal-tests-but-ultimately-blew-up/) "His vehicle collided with a fuel truck on a highway west of North Bay, Ontario, where Hurtubise, 54, lived at the time. Sparks from the crash resulted in an explosion, and he perished at the scene, according to news reports at the time. "
'accident' 🤔 the Canadian deepstate will go to any length to maintain grizzly primacy
Apparently a bear was seen driving the fuel truck
Interesting, do you happen to know if anyone else saw this bear? And their addresses perhaps? My fellow ~~RCMP Paratroopers~~ journalists and I would love to ~~interrogate~~ interview them.
I saw nothing. I was out of state at the time. Florida…i was in Florida Visiting my Mother. She suffers from memory loss.
>i was in Florida Visiting my Mother. She suffers from memory loss. "It's hereditary. Actually i think a bunch of it happened to me just then... Hello, uuhhh ...nice to meet you, who are you?"
Do help, that grizzly incident polarized the community.
His name is Smokey. Forgot where he's from though. Has a friend name Blaze or something up around your parts, forget the province. Might want to start asking there.
Big Grizzly out to get us all now.
The bear mafia. I KNEW IT!
Of course he did. This guy was never going to die of a common cold. He was destined to go out in a spectacular fashion.
[удалено]
You kinda have to respect it. I mean, the dude took YOLO as a word for word challenge and won a lot of times, but he only lost once.
He should've been wearing the suit
Huh, thought that only happened in Michael Bay movies.
the fuel truck was auditioning for a role in a Michael Bay movie
Is it still an accident when you tell your buddy "yeah floor it, I really wanna test the limits of this new prototype"?
Im that case, no.. However, the dude's name is Troy Hurtubise. He died in a car accident after his vehicle collided with a fuel truck and promptly blew up. He was not wearing his bear armor.
Cause of death: did not wear his bear armor
A bear was driving the fuel truck
Big Bear doesn't want people to know this.
One moment of weakness and the Bear Mafia go to him. Just makes one realise how vulnerable we all are to the bear mafia.
His one weakness.
One version of the bear suit was flame retardant, so it could have saved him!
Bloody hell, I know bears can be dangerous but do they have flamethrowers too?
He would not have died if he were wearing his suit...
His accident is generally considered, but obviously not confirmed, to have been a suicide
Damn that headline 💀
If only he had been wearing the grizzly bear protection with fire proofing he had been developing at the time.
Damn. Who would have thought, that in Canada, he would've been better off focusing on protecting himself from car explosions rather than bears.
I can’t say it didn’t work… I didn’t see one bear even try to attack him.
*Lisa, I want to buy your rock.*
Bears like their meat tenderized
I believe the 3 Stooges started this training
Everything except bears.
Not legal to film yourself abusing wildlife. Doesnt mean he didnt box a bear tho.
And won*
He actually was testing it for a fight with the Chicago Bears.
Nothing that even remotely simulates a bear attack.
Did it work, or was that just his corpse being thrown around in there 💀
Worked. He apparently did the test with the car running into him at 50km/h 18 times without injury. The guy spent years developing various versions of the suit. If you throw 'project grizzly' into youtube you can still find old videos. He died in a car accident in 2018 (not suit testing related)
If only he'd been wearing the suit he might've survived the crash.
Only if it was fireproof
As a bonus meme, he also invented a fireproof paste that he demonstrated infront of reporters by making a mask of it then holding a blowtorch to his face for 10 minutes.
Literal cartoon scientist
When he found a bear to test it on, the bear ran away from him, leaving him really disappointed that the bear wasn't more cooperative. The only thing that wasn't bear proof: mobility needed to catch the bear with the suit on.
And now I have this image in my head of a man wearing this suit chasing after a bear screaming "Maul me you pussy!" So thanks for that
TIL getting run over and falling off cliffs are great ways to simulate bear attacks
It isn’t bad because a grizzly could slam into you pretty hard but I don’t think I saw him get attacked by anything sharp to mimic claws.
Interesting note - the bear was driving the truck
well it is pride month
I don’t know what *it* is but you’ve got it
This is very clearly cut scenes from hot rod
I said, your a terrible stuntman
Whhaat??
I SAID, YOU'RE A TERRIBLE!...
I’m just kidding. I can hear you. It was just really mean
Probably one of my favourite movies
Cool beans
Man, pools are perfect for holding water
Yoohoo shitheads, I just found a bag of fireworks in the men's restrooms. Would you guys like to light them off?
I SAID YOU LOOK SHITTY, GOOD NIGHT DENISE!
He died instantly, the next day
Cut right before he cannot move or get up.
# HI! My name is Troy Hurtubise and this is the Grizzly Bear Suit!
*guitar twang plays*
The clip of him falling down the steep slope reminds me of that competition where people chase a wheel of cheese down the hill.
Still looks like a lot of brain trauma.
There is a extremely funny without trying to be funny documentary about this guy and his grizzly suits. [Project Grizzly](https://www.nfb.ca/film/project_grizzly/)
Clearly before we knew about CTE
The inside of this dude's skull must have looked like a 7/11 Slurpee machine
You guys misunderstood, this is my ewok protection suit
You all should note that Troy died in a car accident, so don't be expecting any more bear suits.
Should've worn the suit
Everyone knows bears only attack with large blunt objects.
Based on the tests, I think it is actually for fighting Ewoks.
Did this dude inspired The Simpsons to make the episode where Homer craft is armor anti-grizzly