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Mandatory bear spray, no mountain bikes allowed on popular Banff hiking trail
winnpegfreepress ^ | July 28, 2011 | Bill Graveland

Posted on 08/01/2011 6:21:22 PM PDT by MamaDearest

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To: IMR 4350

“My nephew tried to catch him and he took off with the hook and line.. found him dead on the island in the middle of the lake, choked on the hook”.

You are talking about the alligator right and NOT your nephew?!


21 posted on 08/01/2011 7:01:47 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: MamaDearest
OK, what joker changed the headline?
I read it as Mandatory Hair Spray


22 posted on 08/01/2011 7:04:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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23 posted on 08/01/2011 7:05:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (No dark sarcasm in the press room ... Hey!, Barry!, leave them bills alone.)
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To: momtothree
Yes, unfortunately.
24 posted on 08/01/2011 7:06:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Revolting cat!
I read it as Mandatory Hair Spray

Sad, I was an "Adorn" girl in those days. Always the innovative female, I use hair spray to immobilize spiders before I crush them.

25 posted on 08/01/2011 7:07:12 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

Do they draw straws ... short straw sprays the bear and the other three stand there and crap their pants before they are mauled. Might want to carry a “Goes Bang” along with the Ipods and bear spray.


26 posted on 08/01/2011 7:11:06 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: MamaDearest

Just see it as a selective cull on yuppie cyclists.

In the long run it will strengthen the peleton.


27 posted on 08/01/2011 7:16:24 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: MamaDearest
I've got an adequate bear spray right here:

(When loaded with 300 gr FMJs of course...)

28 posted on 08/01/2011 7:16:49 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: MamaDearest
"Bear spray isn't all that should be packed in case you're hiking in grizzly or black bear territory. Cell phones don't work in the far back country....." Bear spray is useless. You need this in addition to a satellite phone: Photobucket
29 posted on 08/01/2011 7:21:50 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Talisker

Naah...the real test is to clime a tree.
If it climbs up after you it’s a black bear.
If it pushes the tree over, it’s a grizzly.


30 posted on 08/01/2011 7:33:18 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: MamaDearest

can you bring bear spray INTO Canada?


31 posted on 08/01/2011 7:36:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Talisker

Need a pair of overalls with 160 straps, one for each can, all set to spray at the same time, sort of like a suicide muslim.


32 posted on 08/01/2011 7:49:08 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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can you bring bear spray INTO Canada?

True story. Back in 1997 I went on a camping trip in Ontario. Crossing over from Michigan, I got hit with a bored customs officer drawling out "Do you have any gunsknivesbombschemicalweaponsatomicweaponsphasersdeathrayspeppersprayblahblahblah..."

"Oh! Yeah, I keep some pepper spray here in the car!" I blurted out. (Duh!)

So I got detoured over to the customs building holding a "Weapons/Firearms citation". Gave them the pepper spray and was allowed to go on my way. Drove to the campground and walked into the office.

Waiting my turn at the counter I picked up a bear safety brochure. You guessed it - first thing I read was how you should use bear spray to protect yourself. $&@%!!@# Bear spray is just upgunned, highly concentrated pepper spray. And they just confiscated mine!

Idiots are born every minute. But to achieve the apex of idiocy, you need government.

33 posted on 08/01/2011 8:05:28 PM PDT by Liberty1970 (For by grace are you saved through faith.)
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To: MamaDearest

I think a hand gun for self defense would be more effective.


34 posted on 08/01/2011 8:54:44 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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“... it will be mandatory for bear food to travel in packages of at least four”.

yeah, yeah... try finding the rolls in the exact number. Impossible!

Well I'd make sure I could outrun at least one of the other three.

35 posted on 08/01/2011 8:57:38 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: MamaDearest

I’ll pass on the bear spray. I’ll bring my .300 Weatherby Mag instead.


36 posted on 08/01/2011 9:23:23 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: MamaDearest

Wouldn’t it be easier and just kill all the bears? I mean they always seem to have a crappy attitude, so why put up with them?


37 posted on 08/01/2011 9:29:22 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: MamaDearest

I apologize to bear huggers everywhere. If one of them thinks I’m dinner, I’m taking it out . . .


38 posted on 08/01/2011 9:36:16 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Edward Teach

now that if funny....:O)


39 posted on 08/01/2011 10:08:25 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: MamaDearest

Don’t trust the reports. The biologists were caught several years ago planting grizzly and lynx hair. They’d already planned to have 1.3 million acres roped off from humans when the fraud was discovered.

Their goal is to prove that these rare species need the land to re-populate. But their real goal is to acquire as much land as possible and have total control over it with none of us using it.

I don’t doubt that grizzly may wander from Canada down into the north Cascades, but don’t allow them to rope off our land because of a photograph.


40 posted on 08/02/2011 5:15:03 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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