Posted on 08/01/2010 5:36:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
Karen Noyes greets a bear at the North America Bear Center in Ely, Minn. Noyes lost her home in Yachats a year ago when she refused to stop feeding bears in her yard.
Bear Lady update Ping!
I say let her feed the bears. When she gets eaten by them no more problem!
I am speechless! (for once) ha!
Yep, it’s bound to happen.
except for the other people who get attacked because she taught bears to associate people with food.
Timothy Treadwell award winner?
Just so long as she does her feeding at the North America Bear Center in Ely, Minn. She sure won’t be doing it in OR any longer.
It happened to another lady in California who was feeding bears last year. What is it about women feeding wild or feral animals (cats, bears, etc.)?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/08/woman-killed-by-bear.html
Woman killed by bear she had been feeding
August 11, 2009
“A woman who had been warned about the perils of feeding bears was killed by one of the animals.
Donna Munson, a resident of Ouray County, Colo., was found dead outside of her home last week, her body mauled and partially eaten.
According to Joel Burk, Ouray County Sheriff’s investigator, Munson died of multiple traumas. The wounds were consistent with being attacked by a bear.”
Probably killed by one of the bears she DIDN'T feed...
This idiot woman’s neighbors in Yachats seem to have a little different opinion of it than you do.
Ha! Didn’t check your link, it was the same woman.
Aug. 10, 1993 in Fremont County, Colorado : a 24-year-old man was killed...the black bear went thru the mans front door and ate the guy over several days ?
No telling if the guy died before or after the eating began
Look at the picure of the lady kissing the bear. I've never seen 5 black bears in one place in any documentary and certainly not with my own eyes. That is not normal behavior by either the woman or the bears.
Either way it’s a bad way to die, the Treadwell audio attests to it.
those 5 bears are at the bear sanctuary in MN...
If it was just her that was at risk, that would be one thing, but how would you feel if you lived down the street from this dimwit, and repeatedly had black bears try and come through your dog door??
How about if your dog was killed by one of the bears she was feeding??
What if it was your grandchild that got mauled to death by one of her bears??
This woman is yet another in a long line of whack-a-doos that inhabit the Pacifist Northwest. She is likely living proof of what long term marijuana use does to the brain, if not the dangers of the habitual use of hallucinogens in early youth.
Tim Treadwell Syndrome, writ large...except she is a danger to others as well as herself, because she was doing this in a residential neighborhood, not out in the boon-toolies in Alaska like Timmy was....
They did have to shoot 4 bears in her neighborhood in Oregon in one summer. Not very usual. I grew up about 60 miles from there in the Willamette Valley and bears weren't seen that often.
I have a soft spot for these bears because I lived near Tahoe for several years and the bears there were constantly getting in trouble for dumpster diving. You couldn't cut a tree down in the basin to improve your view or protect your house from wildfires, but they wouldn't require bear proof garbage cans. I never saw bears on the Tahoe Rim, but saw lots of bears cruising through town.
This is what happens when an idiot leaves a pizza on the front seat of his car in Tahoe.
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