This bear should have been removed by the forest service before the attack.
This was apparently a repeat offender. A problem bear.
As Redcloak asked, “Does anyone know if there was food in the tent?”
Was their signs out in the open warning the cityfolk campers that they were in bear country and to suspend all foodstuffs in the air.
Fighting a bear for that cooler full of food is losing battle. Being stupid is probably the most common reason for bear attacks on people.
This was apparently a repeat offender. A problem bear.
Problem bears, and other such critters, tend to actually be problem campers. Not that it's necessarily true in this case, but those who get munched, crunched, or otherwise disturbed by the fiercer woodland beasties are usually doing something to make said encounter inevitable.
The previous attack was probably the bear foraging for food, as was probably this attack. They don’t remove bears for being bears.
When we went camping out west, we were warned about bears. I have a picture of a bear from about 40 feet away, which ate our dishwashing liquid because we forgot to put it up in the hanging bag.
There are signs posted everywhere, and they probably were given a brochure warning of bears and reminding people to keep no food in their tent.
Some kids just don’t believe there is such a thing as “the wild” anymore. But there is — and I bet there are bear “attacks” weekly in most national parks — not something that provokes special “warnings”.
Maybe we should blame the commercials that use bear attacks as a humorous way to sell cars. It makes people think they are a joke, and they are not.