"See...What have I been telling you people about bears, they are 'Godless killing machines'..."
Posted on 06/18/2007 8:29:23 AM PDT by george76
An 11-year-old boy is killed by a black bear overnight at a popular campsite in American Fork Canyon. This morning authorities are searching for the bear.
The boy was asleep inside a tent he was sharing with his family at the Timpooneke Camp area, about 10 miles up the canyon. The family was camping about two miles up a dirt road from that campground.
The boy, his mother, stepfather and a 6-year-old brother were sleeping in a large tent with several sections, and the 11-year-old was in a section of the tent by himself.
Around 11 p.m. family members heard a scream and a loud commotion. They found the tent ripped open, and the boy and his sleeping bag gone.
Harris said the body was found about 400 yards from the tent in the direction of another campsite, where a bear sighting had been reported earlier in the weekend.
Crews are using dogs to search for the bear this morning.
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Prayers for that poor family. I can’t imagine just enjoying a family outing and it turning into this.
There was a fatal bear attack not too far from here last year. A poor little six year old girl was killed and her mother and little brother injured.
You can finish the joke :
if there are no trees and lots of snow...
I get all that.
I’m just saying it’s UNusual, that’s all.
Besides.....I’d rather NOT be camping next to the family which allows their kids to sleep with loaded hand guns.....eh...???
...then it’s a polar bear.
Bear Kills 93 Year-Old New Mexico Woman
The 100-pound elderly woman didn’t have a chance against a 275-pound bear in the kitchen of her home, wildlife officials point to bears desperate for food as the continuing cause of people-bear incidents
A 93-year-old New Mexico woman was mauled to death by a black bear that broke into her home over the weekend, stunned wildlife officials have confirmed. Adelia Maestas Trujillo of Cleveland, in north-central New Mexico, was killed “by multiple bite injuries,” said Scott Wilson, associate director of the Office of Medical Investigator
Scripps Howard News Service
August 21, 2001
This part of Utah sees a high concentration of hikers, bikers and basically humans of all stripes including boy scouts. I prefer much more remote areas, and don’t frequent the American Fork or Mt. Timpanogos areas.
Part of the problem in these bear attacks is that they’ve become accustomed to humans. I’m sure this bear has taken up the nasty habit of scavaging on the remains of campsite garbage. It’s easy food.
This time, the bears instincts for fresh kill associated with campgrounds and food probably got the best of him. What a tragedy.
Bingo..the poor kid might have snuck a few cookies...peanut butter or somesuch..a bear’s sense of smell is unreal....
Uh... 'cuz it's more fun than camping in the city? I hate to break it to you, but people have been doing it for a really long time. Sometimes life isn't about perfect safety.
or the other old line...”I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you...”
Bears are just sweet little cuddly fuzzballs that only want a few snacks. Didn’t you see the movie Open Season??? Its the hunters that are bad not the cute fuzzy bears.
“In 28 years of law enforcement this is the first bear attack that I know of in Utah County,” Harris said.
As the number of bears increases and the number of campers and hikers in bear country increases, incidents like this will grow in numbers.
People camping or hiking in bear country should include at least one person familiar with firarms who is capable of taking down a bear and is armed. People camping in bear country should also be required to have a dog of an appropriate kind with them - Plott Hound, etc.
i agree with u totally
First thought I had was to wonder how much food he had in the tent with him.
Bears are intelligent animals. The more intellignet an animal, the more unpredictable the behavior and the more hikers and campers in bear country, the greater likelihood of this being repeated.
I get hit if I tell that joke.
I see you are from New Jersey.
New Jersey is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.
There have been numerous attacks by black bear in New Jersey on livestock and threats on persons and entry into homes there. Their population is growing and the number of bear-human encounters there is growing.
Bear rightfully recognize humans as a harmless food source in Jersey as they are no longer hunted there - there WAS a bear season years ago which kept the population reduced to a very small number in a restricted part of the state - the Delaware Water Gap. The recent increases in bear human encounters there have everything to do with the elimination of that hunting season and nothing at all to do with incerased construction in wooded areas.
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