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One year later, the Bear Lady of Yachats is doing 'OK' (OR)
The Oregonian ^ | August 1, 2010 | Lori Tobias

Posted on 08/01/2010 5:36:44 PM PDT by jazusamo

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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.


1 posted on 08/01/2010 5:36:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: george76; girlangler; Flycatcher

Bear Lady update Ping!


2 posted on 08/01/2010 5:40:20 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

I say let her feed the bears. When she gets eaten by them no more problem!


3 posted on 08/01/2010 5:42:05 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: jazusamo

I am speechless! (for once) ha!


4 posted on 08/01/2010 5:42:29 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Yep, it’s bound to happen.


5 posted on 08/01/2010 5:43:12 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

except for the other people who get attacked because she taught bears to associate people with food.


6 posted on 08/01/2010 5:43:52 PM PDT by balch3
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To: jazusamo

Timothy Treadwell award winner?


7 posted on 08/01/2010 5:44:55 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: balch3; Jack Hydrazine

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.


8 posted on 08/01/2010 5:47:45 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

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.”


9 posted on 08/01/2010 5:50:17 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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They need to feed this ###hole judge to the bears.
10 posted on 08/01/2010 5:52:23 PM PDT by wendy1946
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“A woman who had been warned about the perils of feeding bears was killed by one of the animals.

Probably killed by one of the bears she DIDN'T feed...

11 posted on 08/01/2010 5:54:12 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Not sure but I believe theyve got a few screws loose. A woman in CO was eaten about a year ago by a bear she'd been feeding.

Bear Found Feeding on Elderly Woman's Body in Colorado

12 posted on 08/01/2010 6:03:41 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: wendy1946

This idiot woman’s neighbors in Yachats seem to have a little different opinion of it than you do.


13 posted on 08/01/2010 6:05:35 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Ha! Didn’t check your link, it was the same woman.


14 posted on 08/01/2010 6:10:54 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Aug. 10, 1993 in Fremont County, Colorado : a 24-year-old man was killed...the black bear went thru the man’s front door and ate the guy over several days ?

No telling if the guy died before or after the eating began


15 posted on 08/01/2010 6:25:05 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: balch3
The most likely result is that these bears get habituated to looking for human sources for food. Then they get darted and dumped back into the wild. The repeat offenders get destroyed.

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.

16 posted on 08/01/2010 6:28:51 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: george76

Either way it’s a bad way to die, the Treadwell audio attests to it.


17 posted on 08/01/2010 6:30:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: USNBandit

those 5 bears are at the bear sanctuary in MN...


18 posted on 08/01/2010 6:40:32 PM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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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....


19 posted on 08/01/2010 6:43:05 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: stefanbatory
Oops, didn't read that part. Thanks for tightening me up.

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.


20 posted on 08/01/2010 6:53:06 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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