"Roll for Initiative"
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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A medium-sized black bear sauntered between a long string of visitors (including my wife and I) at Yosemite in the mid-80s. I’d been making jokes about it prior, within earshot of each group going the other way.
He should have shot a gun and not a camera at the 300# bear
Too soon?
Doesn’t “stalking type behavior” qualify as an interest in food?
lol
And the bear only had an 80 lb weight advantage over the photographer....
A whitetail buck charged my brother’s truck and put a half dozen holes in his radiator after he brilliantly honked at two bucks fighting it out in the middle of the road.
LOL Please say there is video!
Yes
I was at work, sitting in the habitrail guardshack, and watching a buck act completely out of his mind during the rut.
He stood on the yellow line in the road at the end of the truck exit.
Itself rather odd, but his behavior beyond that was fascinating.
He flared his nostrils, bulged his eyes out, squeaked, snorted, lowered his rack, and challenged every single vehicle that drove by.
Most people were smart enough to continue on without stopping.
All except for the idiot in the Green Jeep Grand Cherokee.
He had on a partway unbuttoned polo shirt, cargo shorts, and Birkenstock slippers.
He stopped his vehicle, and honked.
The buck let out this enraged huff, then started racking the crap out of the nose of the Jeep.
The driver JUMPS OUT OF HIS VEHICLE, starts flapping his arms and shrieking about the vicious man eating deer.
He then figures out that standing outside with an enraged buck was not a good idea and gets back into his now damaged and steaming Jeep.
And instead of putting it in gear and shoving the buck, he puts it in reverse, flaps his arms limply, screams, and floors it.
The buck chased him.
Fifteen minutes later, the buck was back and twice as insufferable.
He even put rack to a truck trailer as the driver made his turn out of the truck exit.
On my way home from work, I made certain the buck was occupied with someone else before I tried to venture past him.
Beat the heck out of her car. Fortunately for her, she had enough sense to stay inside it, and let the car take the beating.
I have yet to ever run across a moose, thankfully.
Deer and bear, and watched that idiot with the jeep.
The arm flapping was hysterical to watch for a few seconds, but i really didn’t want to watch him get stomped.
We get city transplants out here and it seems they either think the animals are tame and want their pictures taken with them, or they want the deer crossing signs removed as they no longer want the deer crossing there.
On the other hand, I once came within arm's length of an eagle. We were both intently fishing the same stretch of river. I was on the riverbank, trying to navigate a tight ravine, he was on a tree overhanging the ravine. Each of us realized that the other was there at the same time. We both let out loud squawks, and decided that we had other places to be at that moment.
I gotta tell ya, an adult eagle, at a range of 3-4 feet away, is a really, really big bird. Startlingly huge. That's not an event that I'd like to repeat. :-)
Was out hiking in the Delaware water gap national rec area, had an eagle slowly glide down and check me out.
Weird.
Had idiots from the city chase a bear through my campsite, it passed three foot away while I was chopping wood.
“Take my pitcher withit!”
Had a medium sized female bobcat make her presence known, again I was being eyeballed.
She let me know it was time to GTF gone.
This would have been late dusk, not quite dark yet. You wanna talk about me tearing it for home? Forget it. I don't think that I touched down, except for the high spots.
And....if you want to talk about ijits from the city.....My cousin *swears* that this is true. Having dealt with enough city people (locals called them 'summer complaints') I could believe it.
So, he's headed home from work. Buncha cars - all with NJ plates on them - are pulled over beside the road, and a whole gaggle of people are standing around pointing and taking pictures. Cousin figures "What the heck", and pulls over to see what's going on.
The folks are all excited about the moose. When my cousin asks "What moose?", they sloooowly explain - as you would talk to any obviously illiterate country backwoods redneck (/sarcasm) - the moose that's standing RIGHT THERE. In the pasture.
It was one of the local's donkeys.
Not to be outdone, my cousin asked - "So, what's the collar that he's wearing, for?"
The tourists: "The Game Wardens put those on the moose so that they can be tracked. Obviously. Haven't you ever seen a moose before?"
So, somewhere in NJ, there's a family with dozens of fantastic pictures of a donkey. But, they're sure it's a moose, and might be able to fool other city folk into thinking the same thing, so that's good enough for them. :-)
My brother had pictures of a couple of proud “hunters” he ran across.
One pair had their “strange deer” tied to to hood of their car.
My brother said later that “somebody will be missing their dog.”
Another pair of dopes he met had a goat.
Closer to me, farmer keeps losing dairy cows every hunting season.
Ijits from the city every time.
Having the bobcat “meow” at me because I was boring was freaky.
Well, more of a down note “mwowm” sound.
That she was uncomfortably close was worse.
Apparently I’d caught her attention, she’d snuck close, then gotten bored.
Glad I bored her as I hate to think of what she’d have done if I hadn’t been boring!
I might have startled it, or maybe it had some cubs with it, or something. Like I said, I didn't stick around to do any sightseeing. :-)
And don't get me started on stupid hunter stories. We'll be here all night. :-) :-)
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Lol!
Felonious beaver, now going gangster!
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