Reminds me of similar story I read...
a number of years ago. A guy was looking at the bears at the zoo and thought one of them was waving at him to come over. He jumped in and went up to the bear. It looked at him, sniffed him a couple times, and then took a piece of him with his claw. I was left with the impression the piece the bear took was from the guy's belly straight down to the inner thighs.
He lived, but I'm not sure if I'd rather be half eaten and dead like the other guy.