Have you ever heard or seen this?

yeah, crazy...but have to agree with John. Did you/can you reschedule?

Probably more worried about a fan/kid that might wander off in the woods. At any rate, you don't mess with a momma bear and cubs. Probably a good idea. Are you not from the area to know about the local wildlife?

I would try and suit the momma up at NG

around here there would be some dads going out to shoot it and cook it up!!

We had a mountain lion loose yesterday and they almost had to call school off for some elementary schools.

OK JP, I am calling bullship!!!

Female mosquitos are attracted to CO2, it's how (along with infrared vision) they find their food (blood). I never heard of stinging (as opposed to biting) insects being able to smell carbon dioxide, let alone being attracted to it. Bees aren't out looking long range (where the sense of smell would come into play) for animals to sting. Typically they feed during the daytime, when flowering plants would be taking up more carbon dioxide than they're putting out.

Lying still was the move that worked, holding breath not a help.

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On further review, I see that bees can smell CO2, based on electric experiments with their antennas. However, although the bit about homing in on CO2 to attack is widely reported, those reports are not from any source I'd trust. (There's an awful lot of bogus insect lore.) A reason given for believing so is that the Africanized honey bees sting more in or around the mouth and nose; however, that's true of ears as well, so that seems to relate more to an attraction to invaginations, consistent with going into flowers. I've yet to see good evidence they're at all attracted to CO2. Some say CO2 makes them more defensive, hence more likely to sting. However, that would seem to contradict the common and effective use of smoke and CO2 to anesthetize bees, wasps, and hornets. Still, it might arouse them at lower concentrations while anesthetizing or calming them at higher concentrations.

Backpackers and tourists in this state get mauled by momma bears with their cubs every year. They're not terribly bright when it comes to touchy animals like bears, moose, and cougars. One family actually came up on a momma moose and were trying to get her and her calf on video. They learned a very hard lesson that day; dad was lucky to get out of it alive.

Not something to screw around with; I've experienced it first hand. We were backpacking outside of Yellowstone National Park a few years back and we saw two cubs wandering around the trail. Before you know it, we had a big ol' angry mamma grizzly tearing down the side of a hill at us. My buddy whipped out his .38 pistol and fired three shots into the air and spooked her off. We were lucky; I surprised it actually scared her.

So, I agree with the principal; mamma bear versus teenage boy= severely injured (or dead..) teenage boy.