"Tree Mugger",Way to Die #176, is the seventh and last death to be featured in "Dead on Dead", which aired on February 24, 2010.
Plot[]
Construction sites deep in the wilderness were having a battle between man and nature, and so far, man is winning. But a nature enthusiast who calls himself "Root-Dog" chains himself to a tree in protest to it being cut down. He is able to get rid of the construction workers, and they just shrug and proceed to cut other trees. Then he ends up meeting another friend of Mother Nature, a grizzly bear. Okay, maybe not very friendly because this beast of the forest shows up and bites on his arm. As Root Dog screams, the bear bites down into the Root Dog's stomach and pulls out his intestines, as Root Dog screams, "GET OUT! I NEED THAT! I NEED THAT! GO! GO!" And Root Dog becomes lunch for the bear.
Transcript[]
(Recap, Music Box Death is playing)
Narrator: Root Dog believed in nature...in the end you can say that nature was...well served.
Interviewees[]
- Jules Sylvester - Wild Animal Trainer/Wrangler (Only US version)
- Adria Madison - Environmentalist (Only Italian and German version)
- Matt Andrade - Root-Dog (lead: intended victim)
Quotes[]
"Don't be scared. No- no tears. No. *Unintelligible dialogue.* I didn't say that. I'll protect you. Yes I will, I'll protect you." -Root Dog "communicating" with his oak tree he's chained himself to.
"Murderers! You greedy, meat-sucking blood vessels!" -Root Dog ranting at the loggers to get away from his precious tree.
"Get out! I need that! I need that! Get off, go, get off!! -Root Dog's final words; a desperate plea for the Grizzly Bear to stop eating him. Really, the bear doesn't care, not even for nature-lovers.
Trivia[]
- In the German/Italian version, there is a different image in the deathcard. It is also is the extra segment of "Death Bites!" being the sixth.
- It also uses a different deathcard theme exclusively used in the German version.
- The German/Italian version of this death is a lot more dramatic than in the American release, featuring more scenes with Root Dog's panicking.
- In the German version of "Dead on Dead", it is replaced by Dead Me Stallion.
- There was a death similar to this in 2002 when a man named Richard Sumner from Denbighshire Wales suffering from Schizophrenia handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys away, and he was discovered dead 3 years later.
- This is based on the death of Timothy Treadwell.
- It is the final death of Season 2. (Expect for German and Italian dubs)
- Bhai Mati das died similarly.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Bear-Ly Escape
Foreign Names[]
- Bärenhunger (Bear Hunger) - German dub
- Ladrón de Arboles (Tree Stealer) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Ecologista Idiota (Idiotic Ecologist) - Spanish dub
- Arbol Naturali ka Maduliyan Hinatanit Dumakahan (Natural Tree of Illiterate Wildlife Craziness) - Lazoran dub
- Śniadanie na Trawie (Breakfast on the Grass) - Polish current voice-over