Stop taking selfies with bears, hikers warned

The Daily Mail (U.K.) / various ^ | October 27, 2014 | Sara Malm

[Stoat]

Hikers in Sierra Nevada are being told to stop taking selfies with the wild bears.

The worrying and very real trend has seen visitors to South Lake Tahoe, California, put themselves at risk to get a share-able snap of themselves with a bear in the background.

Hikers have got as close as a few feet away from the wild bears, and officials have now been forced to send out an official warning.

 

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A recent visitor at the site said she saw dozens of people taking selfies with the bears, who were unafraid of the group.

‘There were like 30 people taking pictures of themselves with the bears,’ Manutsawee Buapet told ABC News.

‘They weren’t scared at all of the people and one bear cub came as close as two feet to the tourists.’

 

[GeronL]

“Selfies with Bears”

a good name for a rock band

[PROCON]

Somewhere in FReeperland.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Let a couple bet mauled by wild bears and word will get around.

[dangus]

[V_TWIN]

If you've got the time and tolerance for a little foul language start at 2:50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wLB2OPtPFM

[blueunicorn6]

Bears.....nature’s friendly tour guides.

“Mr. Bear, may I have my photo taken with you?”

“Yes, but it will cost you an arm and a leg.”

“How much, exactly, is that?”

“One arm and one leg. What’re you from San Francisco?”

[Tennessee Nana]

Stop taking selfies with bears,
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ask the bear to take the pic...

[defconw]

Darwin Alert!

[Lady Jag]

In many countries bears are kept as pets.



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[thackney]

[thackney]

[chajin]

What about my right to bear arms?

[tanknetter]

:-)

[thackney]

Several pictures from that polar bear series...

http://www.city-data.com/forum/alaska/297387-polar-bear-watching-kaktovik.html

Somebody sat in the truck watching his buddy wonder if he was getting eaten.

[tanknetter]

How rude.

Didn’t that bear’s mother ever teach it not to play with it’s food?

[thackney]

[Berlin_Freeper]

My daughter dancing at the zoo last summer. The black bear is behind a glass wall.

[buffaloguy]

Just what exactly has happened to common sense?

[tanknetter]

I use that same line, only about the ocean. Everytime my family does a beach vacation.

[ColdOne]

Thanks so much for that link.