Wasn't there a story posted on here last year of a guy back east who approached a wounded black bear and got chewed on? Two years ago, there was a guy here in Idaho who heard his some screaming down the hill, when he got to the kid, a black bear was on top of his son. The guy approached and arrowed the bear off the back of his boy. The possiblility does exist. Though blackies do not have the reputation of a brown bear, they are however wild animals and are highly equipped for ripping you to pieces.