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Russian Town Invaded, Ruled by Hungry Bears
Complex ^ | September 5, 2015 | Claire Landsbaum

Posted on 09/06/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One Russian town is living your worst nightmare: a bear apocalypse. Luchegorsk, a town of 21,000 near the Chinese border, is being terrorized by hungry bears following a shortage of wild nuts and berries, a.k.a. foods bears usually eat to fatten up for the winter. The Guardian reports that one brown bear and one Himalayan bear are "ruling" Luchegorsk, walking through the streets and attacking residents. Asian black bears have also been spotted, and another 30-ish bears are circling the town's borders.

Local police are using sirens, cars, and pressure hoses and firing into the air to scare the bears away. Streets are filled with loudspeakers telling people not to leave their houses, and children are being kept inside. It's basically the end of times, and there's good reason to be cautious—one man was attacked by a bear at a bus stop, and another was ambushed while walking his dog.

So far at least two bears have been shot because they "posed a real threat to humans and were attacking local residents," said Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the region’s animal control department.

As the bear's food and habitats disappear, bear attacks in Russia are on the rise. Last summer a heat wave drove bears into cities, and at least three people died in bear attacks. The summer of 2010 was so hot that Siberian bears dug up human graves looking for food. According to Vasilyev, the situation will only get worse over time. Looks like it's time for Luchegorsk residents to embrace their new bear overlords.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bearpocalypse; bears; luchegorsk; russia
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1 posted on 09/06/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; Lazamataz; ...

You say “bear”, I say “dinner” and “Where is the guy who processes the meat?”

DANG!


2 posted on 09/06/2015 8:02:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Russian bears.

Who knew?


3 posted on 09/06/2015 8:04:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs You. NOW.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bear problem?Get out the .375H&H and deal with it.


4 posted on 09/06/2015 8:05:13 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks


Люди ? Они на вкус как курица. Humans? They taste like chicken
5 posted on 09/06/2015 8:09:01 PM PDT by BigEdLB (We need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' on Iranian bombing runs. It is not vituous)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Meanwhile, further North...



6 posted on 09/06/2015 8:12:12 PM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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7 posted on 09/06/2015 8:12:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: PROCON

That’s not good.


8 posted on 09/06/2015 8:13:28 PM PDT by BipolarBob ( Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste.)
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To: BigEdLB

That would make a beautiful coat.


9 posted on 09/06/2015 8:14:28 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

when will the inhabitants of Luchegorsk be able to ARM THEMSELVES???


10 posted on 09/06/2015 8:16:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: BigEdLB

Is that snow on the ground?


11 posted on 09/06/2015 8:19:22 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So it is not just us that have gone stark raving mad.


12 posted on 09/06/2015 8:20:41 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There’s a bear in the woods....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwdcmjBgNA


13 posted on 09/06/2015 8:23:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My friends on Kodiak who have eaten Brown bear say only the back-strap tastes reasonably well.


14 posted on 09/06/2015 8:25:21 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I heard one bear went into a bar and demanded a beer, which the bartender refused. The bear then threatened to eat the broad setting at the end of the bar, but again the bartender refused.

Sure enough, the bear ate her, then again demanded a beer, at which the bartender again refused, then said to the bear he’d be too sleepy to drink it anyway.

The bear asked why.......... the bartender said; didn’t you know that was a bar-bitch-you-ate?


15 posted on 09/06/2015 8:25:26 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bear-nado!


16 posted on 09/06/2015 8:27:51 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

I’ve tried it three times. You can have it. It don’t taste like chicken.


17 posted on 09/06/2015 8:28:20 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Local police are using sirens, cars, and pressure hoses and firing into the air to scare the bears away.

Why not shoot at the bears.

18 posted on 09/06/2015 8:29:11 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: BipolarBob

Yeah I heard Polar Bears don’t like Fords.


19 posted on 09/06/2015 8:29:40 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin; pleasenotcalifornia

“I’ve tried it three times. You can have it. It don’t taste like chicken.”

I have had bear meat. It is akin to pork, though a stronger, gammy flavor. Also a lot of fat. Must be cooked well...bear can also carry trichinosis.


20 posted on 09/06/2015 8:35:15 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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