

Man Attacked by Bear and Bitten by Shark in One Year



"At first, I panicked," McWilliams told the newspaper. "I didn't know if I lost half my leg or what."


"I didn't know where the shark was, and I didn't know if he would come after me again," McWilliams said.





"Are you kidding me?" one Facebook friend asked. "Dude, why do you always have animals wanting to eat you?"

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"The bear grabbed the back of my head and started pulling me and I was fighting back as best as I could," McWilliams told Hawaii News Now. "It dropped me and stomped on me a little bit, and I was able to get back to the group and they scared it away."

McWilliams said he was lucky to have survived not only the bear and the shark, but also to have survived a rattlesnake bite during a 2015 hike in Utah, the Star-Advertiser reported. The bite was a "dry bite," which only delivered enough venom to make him ill for a couple of days.




Some commenters on Facebook called McWilliams a "legend" for all he's survived, while others chastised him for getting in the water when much of the island was under a "brown water advisory," meaning that bad storms had turned much of the coastal waters brown.








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