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New Jersey Hiker Photographed Bear Before It Killed Him
CBS NewYork/ ^ | November 26, 2014

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; asianindian; bear; bearattack; bearattacks; bears; blackbear; blackbearattack; blackbears; darwin; darwinaward; darwinssilverhammer; easternindian; hikerkilled; nj; njblackbear; passaiccounty; westmilford; wildlife
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To: CrazyIvan

It was a black bear, so when is Al Sharpton showing up there to sue the dead guys estate for making the bear kill him.


61 posted on 11/26/2014 11:28:20 AM PST by TonyM
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To: george76
he was killed by the 300-pound black bear

What a metaphor for Missouri

62 posted on 11/26/2014 11:35:54 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: jazusamo

Forgot their little Brass bells ?


63 posted on 11/26/2014 11:45:33 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: defconw
I've no experience with bison, but could see where they'd be a problem.

Came nose-to-nose with a cow moose once while driving my pickup down a logging road. I suspect that there was a calf somewhere around, because she wasn't going to let me by. So there we sat.

Eventually, she got out of the way, but it took awhile. Wasn't much I could do; she was as big as the truck I was in.

64 posted on 11/26/2014 11:47:04 AM PST by wbill
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

The undocumented may now loot and burn local stores ?


65 posted on 11/26/2014 11:47:42 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: mikrofon
The Alaska hiker was in Denali for at least 7:59 before his unfortunate end…

Denali is not just a river in Egypt.

66 posted on 11/26/2014 11:48:31 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: wbill

A guy I used to deer hunt with was a ranger one summer in one of the big national parks.

A guy comes in all torn up and claiming to have been mauled by a bear.

It turned out that he was driving along and saw a bear on the side of the road. So he gets out and walked over and put his arm around the bear while his wife took pictures.

Not being satisfied with that, he heated up his cigarette really well and extinguished it on the bear’s nose.

The bear proceeded to back-fist him into the next county.


67 posted on 11/26/2014 11:53:50 AM PST by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: george76

Maybe the bear was POOPING and didn’t want that question answered!


68 posted on 11/26/2014 11:55:48 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: george76
Safe way to take a photo of a bear.
69 posted on 11/26/2014 12:00:51 PM PST by kanawa
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To: Clay Moore
Sounds like the guy wasn't one of the sharper knives in the drawer. :-)

'Bout the only time I've ever seen my father scared was on a fishing trip. We were hiking out on a logging road and we came across a freshly killed bear cub. The truck had blown past us just a couple of minutes prior, so we knew it had just happened.

And, we knew Momma was still around, and would likely blame us for it. I was too young to be smart enough to be scared, but Dad sure was. We *really* hauled it out to the main road.

70 posted on 11/26/2014 12:03:59 PM PST by wbill
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To: george76
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71 posted on 11/26/2014 12:05:58 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: SamAdams76

True. I have occasionally wandered off the turnpike in New Jersey, and most of it is very pleasant. For several years we vacationed in Cape May. It’s been awhile. I hope the years have been kind.


72 posted on 11/26/2014 12:18:47 PM PST by sphinx
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To: MileHi

It’s NJ. We’re not even allowed to carry a slingshot.


73 posted on 11/26/2014 12:20:49 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
The Alaska hiker was in Denali for at least 7:59 before his unfortunate end…

I don't think this one was in the same, how shall I say, grocery aisle as Timothy Snackwell. He was just out hiking and didn't know any better. Although in the course of 8 minutes, a clue could have been purchased.

RIP, Darsh Pâté

74 posted on 11/26/2014 12:24:37 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: george76

That was at a summer camp, very close to where I live. Speculation at the time was that the bear was attracted to sour milk smell from her bottle or a soiled diaper. There are many nuisance bears in NYS over the past several years, especially in the counties that border NJ. A local hunting club killed six on the opening weekend of rifle season this year. There were also 25 or 30 killed in our first ever early bear season that was run in September of this year for two weeks, in my county.


75 posted on 11/26/2014 12:43:54 PM PST by MountainYankee
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To: MountainYankee

Good.

Not just the harvest, but the lazy bears need to learn that humans should not be easiest source of food.


76 posted on 11/26/2014 1:26:00 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

We live 4 miles from Canada on the YUkon, got our share of bear and everybody around here shoots every bear they see, all year long; still got more than enough bear around.


77 posted on 11/26/2014 1:31:41 PM PST by Eska
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To: mikrofon

That hiker in Alaska’s Denali National Park should have brought a slow moving friend that could have been easily out run.


78 posted on 11/26/2014 1:32:42 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

In a rare non-sexual thread...this thread is useless without the actual pics.


79 posted on 11/26/2014 1:51:18 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: thackney

4 humans versus one black bear. Our caveman ancestors would be amazed at out stupidity.


80 posted on 11/26/2014 2:11:59 PM PST by wgmalabama
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