Bonelessness

[Greg]

Only in books and movies.

[Drunk Monk]

More karmic death. Is it wrong to be into it?

Virginia man dies after bear shot in tree falls on him
Lester C Harvey, 58, rushed to two different hospitals after being struck by fallen animal in unusual accident

Associated Press
Tue 17 Dec 2024 13.54 EST


A Virginia man has died after a bear in a tree shot by one of his hunting partners fell on him, state wildlife officials said.
The bizarre, accidental death occurred 9 December in Lunenburg county, which is between Richmond and Danville, Virginia’s department of wildlife resources said in a statement.
A hunting group was following the bear when it ran up the tree, the department said. As the group retreated from the tree, a hunter shot the bear. The animal fell on to another hunter who was standing about 10ft (3 metres) from the bottom of the tree.
The department identified the man as Lester C Harvey, 58, of Phenix, Virginia. A member of the group rendered first aid before Harvey was rushed to two different hospitals. He died from his injuries on Friday, the wildlife department stated.
An obituary for Harvey, a married father of five with eight grandchildren, said he was a self-employed contractor and avid outdoorsman.
Similar incidents have occurred in recent years.
In 2018, a man in Alaska was critically injured after his hunting partner shot a bear on a ridge. The animal tumbled down a slope into the man, who was also struck by rocks dislodged by the bear.
Another man was injured in 2019 after his hunting partner shot a bear in a tree in North Carolina. The bear fell out of the tree and began biting the hunter. The man and the animal then tumbled off a cliff. The hunter was taken to a hospital, while the bear was later found dead.

I know it's wrong but I totally lol-ed at this.

[thatguy]

[Drunk Monk]

A boneless bear once sent me this postcard as a riposte to my pointing out his homelessness. 

That must’ve been in the early 80s. 

Like 40 years ago…

[Greg]

When did the boneless one become homeless?

[Drunk Monk]

When he lived in urine alley.

I mean he called it a home but it was nasty.

It’s amazing what you can tolerate…

…when your boneless.

[thatguy]

https://gizmodo.com/mysterious-red-paint...2000547681

Mysterious Red-Painted Dog Penis Bone Found in Ancient Roman Shaft

Margherita BassiPublished January 9, 2025
Ellen Green © The dog penis bone painted in red.
Discovering bones in ancient Roman quarry shafts is not unusual—finding a hand-painted dog penis bone, however, is.
Bioarchaeologist Ellen Green from the University of Reading in the UK has uncovered a painted dog baculum, or penis bone, dating back over 2,000 years. Scientists found the painted bone within a first-century BCE Roman shaft in Surrey, England. Archaeologists discovered the bone among other skeletal remains, and it might have been used in fertility or good luck rituals, as first reported by Live Science. Green describes the red-stained artifact in a studypublished on December 25 in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.
Archaeologists discovered the 13.1-foot-deep (4-meter-deep) ancient Roman shaft (a former quarry, not the penis) in 2015 at a site called Nescot near the town of Ewell, and uncovered hundreds of human and animal skeletal remains. The researchers specifically uncovered the remains of over 280 domestic animals, including dogs, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and horses. Most were without evidence of butchering, disease, or burning. Of those animals, almost 200 of them were dogs—but only one of their penises was painted.
Green used X-ray fluorescence (a non-destructive technique that determines an object’s elemental composition) to determine that the red paint was iron oxide, a chemical compound whose color ranges from light yellow to a deep red. She then narrowed down the explanation behind the artifact’s pigmentation to two scenarios: “either the ochre was applied directly to the bone, staining it red, or the baculum was kept in a cloth dyed with ochre which then decomposed, staining the bone,” the bioarchaeologist wrote in the study. Ochre is a natural pigment mainly composed of iron oxide.
That said, no other bones appear to have been painted, archaeologists found no metal artifacts in the shaft that could have stained the bone with rust, and naturally occurring red ochre was absent from the Nescot site. As a result, Green concluded that someone intentionally painted the penis bone with red ochre before tossing it into the shaft, making it a truly special find.
“I could not find any other similar cases of Roman use of red ochre on bone, nor any examples from the British Iron Age,” Green told Live Science. “It is a very unique artifact from a very unique site, but it is ultimately a bit of a mystery.”
While Green describes how the bone was likely painted, many questions still remain as to why. In the study, she suggests the artifact may have been used as a ritual item, citing an “already strong association between dogs and fertility within Roman Britain.” Within the greater Roman world, the penis also represented good luck and protection against the evil eye, though “this is the only example I could find of an actual penis having potentially been used as a ritual object,” she added, according to Live Science.
This claim, however, misses plenty of examples of penis bones being used in rituals across cultures. The Saami of northern Scandinavia, for example, attached bear bacula to sacred drums, while Indigenous Alaskan groups polished polar bear penis bones for knife hilts. These practices point to a wider tradition of genitalia symbolizing power, fertility, protection, and possibly even luck.
The entire shaft, which was used as a burial site nine separate times over the course of about half a century after it was disused as a quarry, likely also served a broader ritualistic purpose. This is indicated by the presence of many young animals, as well as many animals born in the spring and summer, which tentatively points towards a connection with agricultural fertility, according to the study.
While Green told The Independentthat the “idea of ritual shafts being associated with fertility is not new,” it certainly brings ancient phallic symbolism to a whole new level. Maybe it’s time for us to replace the rabbit foot keychain.

--tg

[Greg]

A bone found in a shaft?

[Drunk Monk]

‘former quarry, not the penis’

If polar bears weren’t endangered, I would want a polar bear penis bone knife hilt.