[SittinYonder]

A large but scrawny old bear with bad teeth that a pilot had seen sitting on the brush and dirt pulled over the bodies was shot and killed by National Park Service rangers at the scene after it charged them.

The girl's not the tragedy. The bear is the tragedy. The man and the woman should have had sense enough not to be hanging out with bears. The bear was just doing what came natural.

[Richard Kimball]

I agree. My dad was a hunter, and I used to go with him, but this makes me sick. Nutheads that believe Bambi is a documentary go out and annoy animals capable of tearing their head off, and guess what? Then, people decide there's something wrong with the animals and kill them. Saw a thing about a couple of bears getting killed by zoo officials after parents let their ten year old kid climb a wall, go over ten feet of separation space and stick his hand through a chain link fence.

Here's another hint. If a snake bites you, it's not the snake's fault.

[pcottraux]

I believe that was the only attack by a bear in that National Park's history.

But policy dictates that if a bear kills a person, it is to be terminated immediately.

The reason I think the girl is tragic is because I get that she didn't want to be there at all and was afraid of the bears. The man was in love with what he did and swore he would do it till he died. The woman was reluctant. It is a mystery why she then chose to be there with him. I guess she loved him.