Ghastly. Prayers for his family.
Wondering - black bear? Are bears hunted there?
A bear tried to pull a Girl Scout out of her tent in PA a couple weeks ago - she wriggled free of the sleeping bag and it wasn’t really serious about eating her. The Scouts had been careful with food and toiletries, taking the proper precautions. But bears aren’t much hunted in the north-east and don’t have much fear of humans.
Mrs VS
I see you are from New Jersey.
New Jersey is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
There have been numerous attacks by black bear in New Jersey on livestock and threats on persons and entry into homes there. Their population is growing and the number of bear-human encounters there is growing.
Bear rightfully recognize humans as a harmless food source in Jersey as they are no longer hunted there - there WAS a bear season years ago which kept the population reduced to a very small number in a restricted part of the state - the Delaware Water Gap. The recent increases in bear human encounters there have everything to do with the elimination of that hunting season and nothing at all to do with incerased construction in wooded areas.
“But bears aren’t much hunted in the north-east and don’t have much fear of humans.”
In Pa., bear season is soon going to overtake deer season in popularity.
Jersey and Md are the stupid states.