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3 bear maulings in Anchorage try residents' tolerance for living close to large carnivores
Star Tribune ^
| August 16, 2008
| MARY PEMBERTON
Posted on 08/16/2008 4:54:44 PM PDT by decimon
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.
The problem is bears, black bears and bigger grizzlies. So far this summer, three people have been mauled in the city.
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"I wasn't going to lay down and take it. The bear came and tried to fight me," said Rees, 18, who works in a meat store. "I started punching it in the head, kicking it and elbowing it ... I was boxing him using one arm to defend, one arm to strike."
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(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: animalrights; environment
That's "Mr. Rees" to you.
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posted on
08/16/2008 4:54:45 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
“Sinnott said he was surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to hold an all-night bike race in a park known to have bears and along a creek filled with salmon.”
Uhhhhhh...yeah
To: happyathome
..Hey come back, I was just kidding
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:03:57 PM PDT
by
ThreePuttinDude
() ......Pelosi + Reid = $ 4.00 per gallon......()
To: happyathome
“Sinnott said he was surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to hold an all-night bike race in a park known to have bears and along a creek filled with salmon.” Uhhhhhh...yeah
It's okay, they coat themselves in honey to ward off the bears.
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:06:15 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Educate them, provide housing, food, medical benefits ... give them job skills. Yep. That's the ticket.
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:06:56 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
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To: happyathome
“Sinnott said he was surprised anyone thought it was a good idea to hold an all-night bike race in a park known to have bears and along a creek filled with salmon.”
The grateful bears call it ‘meals on wheels’!
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:14:55 PM PDT
by
devere
To: Daffynition
Am I making
salmon salad? Ha ha ha ha...
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:24:22 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
No can do ... I just had a manicure. ;)
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:33:33 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:49:45 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
LOL ... sounds like you're opening up a mimefield!
Let's send all these errant bears to the circus. Make them earn their keep!
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posted on
08/16/2008 5:57:54 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
... sounds like you're opening up a mimefield!Mimefield? Where you never hear it coming?
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posted on
08/16/2008 6:01:33 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Got it!! I got it!
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posted on
08/16/2008 6:12:27 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
Looks like he caught it on a bounce.
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posted on
08/16/2008 6:15:49 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
08/16/2008 9:36:28 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
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