{"id":3240,"date":"2006-07-28T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:04:51","slug":"joseph-kittinger-jr-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/joseph-kittinger-jr-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/archives\/2005_09_18_archive.html\" target=\"_new\">a while<\/a>, but we here at MfBJN confer upon Canadian (!) Tom Tilley the <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2004\/03\/announcing-kittinger-award-andrew.html\" target=\"_new\">Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award for Demonstrable Manliness<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2006\/07\/22\/bear.html\" target=\"_new\">this incident<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man stabbed a black bear to death with a 15-cm hunting knife, saying he knew he would otherwise become &#8220;lunch&#8221; after it attacked him and his dog on a canoeing portage in northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Tilley, a 55-year-old from Waterloo, Ont., said his American Staffordshire dog Sam growled a warning, then rushed to his defence as the bear came at them on a trail north of Wawa on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As Sam battled with the nearly 90-kilogram bear, Tilley jumped on its back and stabbed it with his knife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gall as big as church bells.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/9584\/\" target=\"_new\">The Other Side of Kim<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Previous Kittinger Award winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/24\/joseph-kittinger-jr-award-winner-brad-satchell\/\" target=\"_new\">Brad Satchell<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/20\/7627\/\" target=\"_new\">Mark Bartholomew<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but we here at MfBJN confer upon Canadian (!) Tom Tilley the Joseph Kittinger, Jr., Award for Demonstrable Manliness for this incident: A man stabbed a black bear to death with a 15-cm hunting knife, saying he knew he would otherwise become &#8220;lunch&#8221; after it attacked him and his dog on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittinger-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18630,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}