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Florida man finds bear sleeping on his front porch
UPI ^ | December 2, 2022 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 12/06/2022 12:14:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida man who was alerted to the presence of a bear in his neighborhood discovered the animal taking a nap outside his front door.

Chuck Robbins of Heathrow said he had heard there was a bear in his neighborhood and went out to try to take photos or video of the animal, but he couldn't locate the bear went home.

Robbins said a neighbor contacted him later in the evening to tell him there was a large bear in his yard.

The resident said he looked out a window and discovered the bear was on his porch, sleeping right in front of his door.

"It was amazing. I just walked out, and it was like right there in front of me and so close," Robbins told WOFL-TV.

A bear previously paid a visit to a Nevada family's yard earlier this week. Dave Lester of Zephyr Cove shared video showing the bear destroying the inflatable Rudolph decoration.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bear; florida; floridaman; heathrow
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1 posted on 12/06/2022 12:14:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bear asking for meth from Flodida Man.


2 posted on 12/06/2022 12:16:23 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bears
Lyle Lovett
Some folks say there ain’t no bears in Arkansas
Some folks never seen a bear at all
Some folks say that bears go around eating babies raw
Some folks got a bear across the hall

Some folks say that bears go around smelling bad
Others say that a bear is honey sweet
Some folks say this bear’s the best I ever had
Some folks got a bear beneath their feet

Some folks drive the bears out of the wilderness
Some to see a bear would pay a fee
Me I just bear up my bewildered best
And some folks even see the bear in me

Some folks drive the bears out of the wilderness
Some to see a bear would pay a fee
Me I just bear up my bewildered best
And some folks even see the bear in me

So meet a bear and take him out to lunch with you
And even though your friends may stop and stare
Just remember that’s a bear there in the bunch with you
And they just don’t come no better than a bear

So meet a bear and take him out to lunch with you
And even though your friends may stop and stare
Just remember that’s a bear there in the bunch with you
And they just don’t come no better than a bear

No they just don’t come no better than a bear

No they just don’t come no better than
No they just don’t come no better than
No they just don’t come no better than a bear
Written by: Steve Fromholz

Album: Step Inside This House

Released: 2007


3 posted on 12/06/2022 12:17:06 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We’re up to our ears in bears in Florida!......................


4 posted on 12/06/2022 12:20:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If the Florida man kept this chick around, he’d have no problem getting rid of the bear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5cMZymSr0


5 posted on 12/06/2022 12:22:54 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Red Badger

You ought to live in the Kentucky mountains. If you leave garbage or dog food outside you’re gonna have a big visitor if they are in the neighborhood. My wife’s grandfather had monocular degeneration and couldn’t see well at the end of his life. He heard a noise on his back porch one morning and opened the door and standing on the other side of the screen door was a 300 lbs black bear. He couldn’t make out who it was and was trying to talk to them. Her aunt yelled its a bear shut the door! It was eating dog food left on the porch.

If I’m out about my property I carry a S/A .44 magnum revolver with hard hitting hunting rounds for big game at all times.


6 posted on 12/06/2022 12:26:19 PM PST by sarge83
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To: sarge83

Here in Florida it is illegal to kill a bear...................


7 posted on 12/06/2022 12:29:23 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well if there was an obese hairy gay dude on his porch, he should have woke him up and asked him to call an Uber.


8 posted on 12/06/2022 12:30:38 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: EvilCapitalist

“If the Florida man kept this chick around, he’d have no problem getting rid of the bear.”

The bear ignored her.


9 posted on 12/06/2022 12:31:05 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: TexasGator

The bear went after her kayak instead of her.


10 posted on 12/06/2022 12:32:09 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

One of my favorite clips. If I were a bear, that woman’s voice would sure repel me—if I didn’t die laughing.


11 posted on 12/06/2022 12:34:31 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“The bear went after her kayak instead of her.”

Ignoring her, the bear continued destroyong her kayak.


12 posted on 12/06/2022 12:35:56 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Red Badger

You should — very carefully — explain to the bears that nothing tastes quite as good as a Burmese python, except maybe a tegu.


13 posted on 12/06/2022 12:38:25 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe the bear was the real Florida Man?


14 posted on 12/06/2022 12:38:33 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: EvilCapitalist
That bear was probably going to leave quietly—until she pepper sprayed him.

“Pepper spray me, will ya? Nice little kayak you have here…”

15 posted on 12/06/2022 12:39:45 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: Campion

Our bears are no match for the pythons............


16 posted on 12/06/2022 12:40:04 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: EvilCapitalist
If the Florida man kept this chick around, he’d have no problem getting rid of the bear.

Idiot. She keeps talking to the bear as if she expects Yogi to answer her. Too stupid to live in that environment. Surprised she's not bear scat.

17 posted on 12/06/2022 12:53:36 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: sarge83
You ought to live in the Kentucky mountains. If you leave garbage or dog food outside you’re gonna have a big visitor if they are in the neighborhood. My wife’s grandfather had monocular degeneration and couldn’t see well at the end of his life. He heard a noise on his back porch one morning and opened the door and standing on the other side of the screen door was a 300 lbs black bear. He couldn’t make out who it was and was trying to talk to them. Her aunt yelled its a bear shut the door! It was eating dog food left on the porch.

Speaking of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, this happened on I-65 just north of Bowling Green:

Bears Discover Fire

“Shake that light again,” I said. It was about gone. I spun the lugs off into the hubcap and pulled the wheel. The tire had blown out along the sidewall. “Won’t be fixing this one,” I said. Not that I cared. I have a pile as tall as a man out by the barn.

The light went out again, then came back better than ever as I was fitting the spare over the lugs. “Much better,” I said. There was a flood of dim orange flickery light. But when I turned to find the lug nuts, I was surprised to see that the flashlight the boy was holding was dead. The light was coming from two bears at the edge of the trees, holding torches. They were big, three hundred pounders, standing about five feet tall. Wallace Jr. and his father had seen them and were standing perfectly still. It’s best not to alarm bears.


18 posted on 12/06/2022 1:01:21 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Let sleeping dogs lie goes double for bears.


19 posted on 12/06/2022 1:18:14 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Red Badger

You can’t here unless your life is in danger or you have a license in season. Still I can’t run anymore so I’ll risk a trial if I have to put one down.

The game warden told us if one keeps showing up to burn his behind up with a .12gauge #8 shot. It won’t kill him, but will sting enough that he might move on from the area and not return.


20 posted on 12/06/2022 1:23:32 PM PST by sarge83
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