This train wreck has had a lot of press and film based on his experience with grizzly bears. Werner Herzog made a documentary on Timothy Treadwell-"The Grizzly Man". National Geographic/Animal Planet had a 12-part series, "Grizzly Man Diaries" using film and commentary produced by Timothy, spanning the 8 years he spent in Alaska. I became so engrossed with the story I decided to do a blog on him. If anyone were to ask me what was the most memorable moment of the 60+ hours of video I have viewed, which included his extremely close encounters with the grizzlies, the introduction of his girlfriend to the bears and his gruesome death, they would be astonished by my answer. It would be one word-"GARTH" which was the name of the bear who killed him and his girlfriend. Now I will explain to you the reason for the name 'Garth' is so significant.
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Some may be surprised to learn that not only am I an extremely gifted writer, blogger, videographer, author, all round nice guy without a mean or prejudiced bone in my body, I worked for many years in the mental health field. Now some citizens may crudely refer to the type of people I worked with as tardos, mongos, pea-brains, dip-shits, etc. The medical term we professionals use to classify them is "Retards".
Having worked in the capacity as a therapist in several institutes from one coast to the other, I must have come to know literally thousands of retards. For whatever reason, at least 80% of all male retards are named 'Garth' and more surprising, about 15% of female retards are named 'Garth'! Several of my colleagues and I were discussing this fact at a weekend retreat for psychologists.
After an evening of heavy psycho-tropic drug use, followed by copious amounts of vodka and scotch, we tried to hypothesize the reasons and causes of this phenomenon. These were the questions and scenarios we discussed-
- Did the parents know the kid was retarded the minute they laid eyes on it? "Gee, look honey, the kid is retarded! I guess we have to name him Garth!"
- The parents are in the delivery room and the nurse hands them the newborn baby. They excitedly ask-"Doctor, is it a girl or a boy?" The doctor and the nurse both take a good hard look and tell the parents-"We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it is neither, it's a fucking 'Garth'! To which the husband replies-"Ah, shit, not another one, we got to quit fucking honey!"
- Did they have a name picked out prior to the baby's birth? And when the obstetric nurse asked what names they had chosen, they replied-"Yes we do! If its a boy, we are naming him Garth, if it's a girl, she will be called Garth!" And the nurse says-"Hang on for a second I'll be right back. I have to phone the nut house and tell them to expect another client!"
- Or was the name Garth capable of causing retroactive retardation? One of my esteemed colleagues related an actual case he was involved in while working at the prestigious Klinghoffer Behavioral Science Clinic, which is affiliated with the Harvard Medical School. This case involved the son of Marissa and George Heisenberg. In 2006, they gave birth to a son who was a child prodigy by the age of two. What is interesting is the fact that they had decided to wait till he was four years old before giving him a first name. In the interim, he was referred to as 'Baby Hebe' by friends and family. This child was gifted in several fields. He could play several musical instruments by the time he was two. He was fluent in several language and could do complex math and algebra functions. Things came crashing down on this family the day after his fourth birthday. 'Baby Hebe' was sitting at the piano playing Mendelson's Piano Concerto in B Flat, when he stopped and said to his parent-"Mother and father, I want to thank you for the wonderful party you had for me yesterday. And I want to thank for the wonder life you have provided for me. I will make you proud of me and I will repay you by becoming rich and famous. All I ask of you is one more thing. What name have you decided to give me?" Both parents, bursting with pride, decided that it was the perfect time to give him the name they had thought long and hard before coming to a decision. "Son", said his father." your mother and I have decided on the name Garth". And the second the word left his lips, the kid instantly lost all his bodily functions-shitting and pissing his pants, drooling like a mongoloid. He then began to demolish the entire house and contents. Nothing but totally incomprehensible gibberish was coming from his mouth. He was immediate institutionalized, unable to do anything on his own except jerk-off and play with his own feces. Is this enough proof to confirm the retro-active retardation theorem? My colleagues and I think so!
They also have a pain threshold that is off the scale and completely impervious to injury. I have seen 7 or 8 attendants take down a Garth and try to subdue him by putting the boots to his head only to have the Garth jump up with a grin on his face and begin to tear the attendants apart. There is nothing more awe inspiring than to watch two Garths going at it, toe to toe, for seven or eight hours-busting tables, chairs, TV sets over each others heads. In one staged battle, I saw them actually using other patients as clubs to pummel each other.
If the government could train these guys for warfare, you could send 10 Garths out on a Search and Destroy mission and you would be guaranteed a 100% success rate. If Roosevelt had unleashed a thousand Garths on Japan, he wouldn't have had to nuke them back to the stone-age!
You may have thought I have gotten off the subject and said to yourself, "Man, where the fuck is this guy going with this story?" Everything concerning "Garths" is extremely relevant to Timothy Treadwell's ugly demise. As a clinical psychologist, I have to clarify something that was innate to Timmy's psychological make-up. Here was a man who was born with only one destiny. He was going to find a way to get himself killed. He wasn't going to go out with a whimper either. Nor was he going to take the easy way out like getting killed in a car accident or fucking around with explosives. Nope, Timothy was going to make it one of the most gruesome and ugly deaths you could imagine.
If you have seen any of the Grizzly Man tapes, you will be familiar with the fact that he gave all the grizzlies he came in contact name really cute and/or fruity names. All except one. The biggest, ugliest and most vicious bear was one he named GARTH. And guess what happens? That's right, this totally fucked up and retarded bear named Garth tears Timothy and his girlfriend to shreds. For some unknown reason, Timmy had left his video camera on (thankfully he left the lens cap on so only the audio was available for the ghouls to listen to over and over and over again) and you can hear both Timmy and girlfriend screaming and shrieking in terror-"Garth, please go! Don't Garth! JESUS CHRIST GARTH, THAT HURTS! GARTH, GO JUST GO, GARRRRRRRRRRRTTHHHHH, OUCHHHHHHHHHHH!
Timmy should have had some really serious conversations with us professionals. You don't name anything Garth that weighs a ton and has the capacity to tear apart an Abrams M-1 Battle Tank when its pissed off.
In closing I would like to say that if anything illustrates the reason we should all stay away from bears and Garths is this picture of Al Gore whose parents affectionately called "Little Garth".
That's it for today's blog. I am currently working on my new Hardy Boys book and I am doing a blog on "How to Differentiate Blacks From Niggers"! This is a result of being called a skinny,cracker assed racist honky one too many times!
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