Posted on 04/15/2011 2:55:00 PM PDT by XRdsRev
State officials and local fire companies have safely removed a bear from near Exit 8 of the New Jersey Turnpike.
"It looks like it was a nice operation coordinated between the [Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife] folks and the fire departments," said Sgt. Stephen Jones, adding that Cranbury and Hightstown were on the scene.
"It's been tranquilized and removed by the fire departments, brought down in a ladder truck bucket and transported to a cage brought by the Fish and Game folks," he continued. From there, he said, the 250-pound bear will probably be released in a wooded area.
The bear was first spotted near mile marker 67 on the highway around 8 a.m. this morning. The incident held up traffic in both directions on the Turnpike until about 12:30 p.m.
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I now I can sleep tonight.
The bears are smarter than the average taxpayer if this is how government operates.
Bears are smarter then most Jersey voters.
They killed the bear in our area...near Rochester NY. It was in a tree...they shot it with a tranquilizer...It fell into a net...but IIRC, ity broke its’ neck. Idiots....
Even if it was bear hunting season, you can’t legally (or safely) shoot that close to a highway.
Shep Smith will have material for months...
Sheesh!(but I suppose it's illegal to use dogs, huh?)
If it's illegal to shoot the bear near the highway, and it's illegal to use dogs to move the bear so you can shoot it, and it's illegal to shoot the bear out of season, I'd say the problems are in the laws and not the bear.
Then a few years later she bought her first new car, a jeep. She hit a deer and totaled it in the first month. She then wanted every frickin deer slaughtered and dispatched because "there's a population problem". I reminded her of her contradictory positions of the past and she had no response other than "it's different now"
Hunting is one thing, I hunted most of my life, but killing is a serious matter, you don't kill just because it's convenient.
Putting hounds out that close to a turnpike isn't a good idea either, unless you don't mind watching your hounds get run over.
Some people just enjoy being “stupid”...Sounds like your sister in law fits the bill. Good luck!!
“Probably be released in a wooded area” - everybody knows that’s where bears go to the bathroom. Stupid bear, up on the road looking for a porta potty. Probably peeking into windows and saw that Charmin commercial with the bears and thought he had to have toilet paper. Madison Avenue...they even screw up bears.
If there are two things New Jersey has enough of, one of them is bears and the other is public workers. Shoot the bears. Starve the public workers.
A good hunter doesn’t need dogs to do his work for him.
Good news for New Jersey truckers.
Bears are the least of New Jersey’s problems.
There was a bear in a very populated part of Virginia Beach last week, near the tourist area. Apparently it had been there for 3 days without making it self very noticeable. No one is sure how it got there. Members of PETa were there in bear costumes leading the chant: “Save the bear, save the bear!” The bear finally got way up in a tree and was safely tranquilized. The bear was taken away to The Great Dismal Swamp, several miles from where it was found. It made for exciting watching on TV as Break News for a good part of the afternoon into evening.
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