[McGruff]

Will take Selfies for food.

[combat_boots]

I like this bear. Should’ve been taken to a zoo.

But it’s Oregon-where those found in a ‘wrong’ of some kind need to be destroyed.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Idiots.

[dznutz]

[Retvet]

Oh no, they killed Yogi! Let people do this. It will eventually lead to a populace IQ increase,

[COBOL2Java]

Poor bear wasn't armed

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The police concluded the bear had grown too habituated to human interaction, and could pose a threat to people's safety, so they made the difficult decision to shoot and kill it.

The bear posing a threat to people's safety is very plausible - this is a wild animal that has gotten used to handouts, not someone's pet dog. The bear was no longer afraid of people, and if it didn't get the food it expected or if it was just in a bad mood on a certain day, it was perfectly capable of causing harm to any people nearby. The people to blame this bear's death are the dummies who decided it would amuse them to feed a wild animal.

[Theodore R.]

Does OR do anything else besides useless killings?

[nuke_road_warrior]

...came to love people...

Roasted or fried?

[Springman]

It’s a shame, but I do blame the stupid Clymers who feed him and took pics with it.

[a fool in paradise]

>>On Thursday, they found the animal surrounded by a pile of trail mix and sunflower seeds that appeared to have been left behind intentionally by some passersby. The police concluded the bear had grown too habituated to human interaction,

Yet we give generations of Americans womb to the tomb handouts. 50+ years in the War on Poverty and some families never moved out of it.

[yawningotter]

The police knew about the bear for the last two weeks, but did not call any fish and game officers to help deal with it?

[finnsheep]

At this moment we have a PA Game Commission bear trap sitting out behind our shed. They trapped a male bear and took it away Saturday and brought the trap back on Monday. We hope they will catch more of the 8 or 9 black bears wandering around here. Yesterday on of the bears - 200+ lb damaged a peach tree here and we’ve had muddy black bear footprints on our basement and front doors. Summer people, idiots and tourists come here and feed the bears or don’t keep garbage where the bears aren’t attracted to it. Where are we? Smack dab in the middle of Pike County, north of I-84 - the county on the border with NY and NJ. So if you hunt, PA Game Commission hunting lands are just north and east of us.