Neighbors: Home where bear attacked Ohioan a 'zoo'

Associated Press ^ | August 21, 2010 | Thomas J. Sheeran

[george76]

COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio – The roars and howls emanating from the property of a man who kept a menagerie of wolves, tigers and bears had many of his neighbors fed up even before one of the bears attacked and killed its 24-year-old caretaker.

"It's a pain in the neck," said Tom Burrington, 68, a retiree who lives two doors down. "There are coyotes hollering at night, lions roaring at night, junkyard dogs barking all day."

The property held about seven to nine bears and 20 wolves, and possibly a lion and three or four tigers...

The filing also listed "Ceasar the Wrestling Bear" as a Mazzola trademark. For more than 20 years, Mazzola took money from people to wrestle a bear or...

[george76]

Mazzola kept Caesar, a 700-pound bear...traveled the bar-and-carnival circuit, offering people — many of them drunk — the chance to wrestle Caesar or one of his other bears.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/08/man_mauled_by_bear_dies_bears.html

[freedumb2003]

The roars and howls emanating from the property of a man who kept a menagerie of wolves, tigers and bears had many of his neighbors fed up even before one of the bears attacked and killed its 24-year-old caretaker.

Well, I guess it is the bear that is fed up now...

Just sayin'

[george76]

For one last time , he fed the bear

[jazusamo]

Sounds like the grifter played to the macho side of drunks, “step right over here and wrestle this here bar, haven’t got a hair iffin’ ya don’t.”

[netmilsmom]

>>Mazzola’s street divides Cleveland’s outer suburbs from rural Lorain County, with an upscale development on the suburban side and older, widely separated homes on the other. His gate was closed Friday with a no-trespassing sign posted, and sheriff’s deputies were posted nearby. <<

Want to make a bet the Mazzola was there long before the Upscale development? Want to bet PETA and the owners who moved in after this guy wanted him gone?

I’m from that area. Colombia Station was the wilderness when I was a kid.

And I wouldn’t put it past PETA to try anything to get rid of the guy.

[Nate505]

Mazzola kept Caesar, a 700-pound bear...traveled the bar-and-carnival circuit, offering people — many of them drunk — the chance to wrestle Caesar or one of his other bears.

And they say potheads are stupid. I don't know of any pothead who would be dumb enough to wrestle a bear. But drunks will do anything.

[Mojave]

"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you."

[abortionisalwaysmurder]

enough said