Posted on 11/26/2014 9:51:44 AM PST by george76
Police in West Milford have released five photos taken by 22-year-old Darsh Patel before he was killed by the 300-pound black bear while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve.
The photos show the bear behind a fallen tree in the woods. Investigators say the phone was found with puncture marks from the bear.
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West Milford police and the state Environmental Protection Department said last month that the bear did not seem interested in food and exhibited “stalking type behavior.”
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Bears hate paparazzi
”Darwin Selfie”
Good one!
Not only was the bear unarmed, but it was a gentle giant.
The bear could be charged with tampering with evidence. He knew he had been made as the suspect and tried to destroy the phone.
LOL Winner!
It is terrible. And young people by nature do not take threats like that seriously. They are still in the youthful invincible mode of thinking.
“Hold muh bear”
People are always talking about how the United States is overpopulated and too congested. But their only perspective is the large cities, the suburban sprawl and the ribbons of concrete that join them all together.
You have to get up in an airplane and look out the window to realize just how wide open this country still is.
I live in Fairfield County, which is the most densely populated county in the state of Connecticut - which itself is the 4th most densely populated state in the nation. Yet I'm surrounded with thousands of acres of forest. I can look into my back yard and observe deer, coyotes and all manners of wildlife. Sure, there are densely populated cities in my county, such as Danbury, Stamford and Bridgeport. But once you get away from the coast and drive the narrow hilly roads of smaller towns like Redding, Bethel, Weston and Easton, you'd think you were in the middle of Vermont.
This nation of ours could easily support ten billion people and still have plenty of open land. Though it would be nice if they all had jobs and supported themselves.
Several years ago, my parents were in Yellowstone, enjoying watching a herd of Buffalo from their car. As the herd included a few calves, it was quite a sight. Apparently, the Buffalo roam all over the place there, without a whole lot of concern for the tourists. :-)
Anyhoo, the idiots behind them sent their children OUT OF THE CAR (!!) to go and stand next to the cute baby buffalos. Wanted to get some pictures, you see.
Dad was able to grab the kids and get them into his car before anyone got hurt. Apparently said fools made quite a stink about it, until a ranger that was happening by set things straight.
Truly, people are dumb about wildlife. Comes from too many Disney movies, I think, where the bears are all friendly and speak with good solid Midwestern accents.
They never did catch the kidnap/rape/murderer on the Appalachian Trail.
Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear then gets you…
There is an old joke about that. It involves a tiger, and the punchline is, I don’t have to outrun the tiger, I just have to outrun you.
I think he unfortunately disturbed the bears’ validating the oldest saying in the world “Does a bear < expletive deleted > in the woods?”
I guess the old joke is really true. You don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the slowest companion.
Five friends from Edison were hiking in the Apshawa Preserve in northern Passaic County when they encountered the bear, West Milford police said. The group became frightened and ran in different directions after the bear began following them, police said.Hiker Darsh Patel, 22, may have twisted his ankle and fallen, becoming separated from his friends, CBS 2’s Tony Aiello reported.
The group noticed Patel was missing once they got to safety and immediately called police.
-PJ
The bears in all the movies I remember had southern accents.
Among the other images in the library of this truth-seeker ....
LOL, thats a good one!
Could have been a catholic bear.
Yep, I worked with a guy in Alaska that claimed a 22 pistol was sufficient for bear protection in the Salmon Streams. Key was not fishing alone.
Really like that old guy, but never went fishing with him...
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