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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It was a black bear, so when is Al Sharpton showing up there to sue the dead guys estate for making the bear kill him.
What a metaphor for Missouri
Forgot their little Brass bells ?
Came nose-to-nose with a cow moose once while driving my pickup down a logging road. I suspect that there was a calf somewhere around, because she wasn't going to let me by. So there we sat.
Eventually, she got out of the way, but it took awhile. Wasn't much I could do; she was as big as the truck I was in.
The undocumented may now loot and burn local stores ?
Denali is not just a river in Egypt.
A guy I used to deer hunt with was a ranger one summer in one of the big national parks.
A guy comes in all torn up and claiming to have been mauled by a bear.
It turned out that he was driving along and saw a bear on the side of the road. So he gets out and walked over and put his arm around the bear while his wife took pictures.
Not being satisfied with that, he heated up his cigarette really well and extinguished it on the bear’s nose.
The bear proceeded to back-fist him into the next county.
Maybe the bear was POOPING and didn’t want that question answered!
'Bout the only time I've ever seen my father scared was on a fishing trip. We were hiking out on a logging road and we came across a freshly killed bear cub. The truck had blown past us just a couple of minutes prior, so we knew it had just happened.
And, we knew Momma was still around, and would likely blame us for it. I was too young to be smart enough to be scared, but Dad sure was. We *really* hauled it out to the main road.
True. I have occasionally wandered off the turnpike in New Jersey, and most of it is very pleasant. For several years we vacationed in Cape May. It’s been awhile. I hope the years have been kind.
It’s NJ. We’re not even allowed to carry a slingshot.
I don't think this one was in the same, how shall I say, grocery aisle as Timothy Snackwell. He was just out hiking and didn't know any better. Although in the course of 8 minutes, a clue could have been purchased.
RIP, Darsh Pâté
That was at a summer camp, very close to where I live. Speculation at the time was that the bear was attracted to sour milk smell from her bottle or a soiled diaper. There are many nuisance bears in NYS over the past several years, especially in the counties that border NJ. A local hunting club killed six on the opening weekend of rifle season this year. There were also 25 or 30 killed in our first ever early bear season that was run in September of this year for two weeks, in my county.
Good.
Not just the harvest, but the lazy bears need to learn that humans should not be easiest source of food.
We live 4 miles from Canada on the YUkon, got our share of bear and everybody around here shoots every bear they see, all year long; still got more than enough bear around.
That hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park should have brought a slow moving friend that could have been easily out run.
In a rare non-sexual thread...this thread is useless without the actual pics.
4 humans versus one black bear. Our caveman ancestors would be amazed at out stupidity.
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