Wild’s Stoner facing backlash after grizzly bear killing

pro hockey talk ^ | 9-4-13 | Mike Halford

[TurboZamboni]

Minnesota Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner is under fire after a picture of him hoisting the severed head of a grizzly bear appeared online. Stoner, 28, appears in an image believed to be taken in May by workers in British Columbia’s Kwatna estuary, a First Nations village. That photo has angered the Coastal First Nations’ Bear Working Group, which has instituted a non-government-recognized ban on tribal hunting. “Last May, trophy hunters shot and killed a five-year-old grizzly bear,” read a media release from the CFN, as per The Province. “The bear, nicknamed ‘Cheeky’ by local field technicians, was skinned and left to rot in a field.

[wideawake]

Before the evil Europeans came, the locals never killed a bear.

They used to invite the bears to their village on Wednesdays, hold hands/paws, and dance and sing in a circle until the morning light.

[rktman]

So sorry your feelins’s are hurt there bear lovers society. Heaven forbid someone hoists an empty skull on petard. What asshats.

[knarf]

I agree to a point ... the meat should’a been harvested.

[X-spurt]

Coyotes got to eat too!

[TurboZamboni]

There goes the NHL’s PETA fan base.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Before the evil Europeans came, the locals never killed a bear. They used to invite the bears to their village on Wednesdays, hold hands/paws, and dance and sing in a circle until the morning light.

Thanks. I didn't know that.

[TurboZamboni]

Stoner-—wonder if he used an Armalite.

[cicero2k]

Was he poaching?

[TurboZamboni]

He did everything legally.

[rktman]

The reference to a bear not being “harvested” related to a bear a few years back and I don’t think the one that was shot by Stoner was the same issue. Just the fact that he showed pride in the fact that he “killed him a bear” was what pissed off the BLS clowns. Sounds like he won a permit (NHL hockey players, do they get special front of the line perks? Just askin’. LOL!)and followed the rules.

[TurboZamboni]

PETA has a problem with him because he didn’t perform a sacred animal sacrifice ritual to appease Gaia nor did he apologize for not being an aborigine.

[canuck_conservative]

Honestly, I have no respect when some city bozo shoots an animal from a distance and then holds the “trophy” like he was in some sort of epic life-and-death struggle with it.

Yeah, what a brave superhero you are.

[rktman]

Hmmm. A ritual sacrifice to to appease Gaia. Get’s me to thinkin’........................

[Ditter]

I have been on several bear hunts with my husband, several in this same area. The bear meat was never harvested. According to our guides, some of them Indians, bear meat is not edible. The meat is eaten by other animals so it is not wasted.

[max americana]

I’m originally from BC, and I was more surprised that the FN tribe weren’t drunk or coherent enough to accidentally shoot Stoner. You definitely will find black bears et al all over the coast. One thing I miss about my former province is that there’s a few regulations to hunting and fishing compared to the US.

It’s not the province you please but the tribes have laws which are different to the province themselves.

[SkyDancer]

A bear killed in BC is causing an uproar in MN???

[Pecos]

Maybe the BC bear had relatives in MN.

[MWestMom]

Sounds like someone has too much time on their hands....

[ANGGAPO]

They make a very good stew with the addition of a few veggies.