Police Kill a Bear Cornered at Urban New Jersey Home

ny times ^ | May 11, 2006 | TINA KELLEY & RONALD SMOTHERS

[Coleus]

Irvington, one of the larger cities in NJ, the bears are all over the place and one just mauled a college student to death last week while hiking in the woods. It's been over 150 years since the last human was killed by a bear.

[The_Media_never_lie]

No dog available to shoot?

[Bryanw92]

I guess not. Maybe they thought it was a dog.

[Navy Patriot]

It’s no surprise, New Jersey is becoming so diverse, Indian food, Japanese food, Mexican food, ...

[riverrunner]

A 218 pound bear is not a cub and is not the cutest thing one can see.

Any bear can quickly do a large amount of damage to a person

[Mears]

“It’s no surprise, New Jersey is becoming so diverse, Indian food, Japanese food, Mexican food, ...

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That is quite humorous. :-)

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[B4Ranch]

It tickles me when anti gun states have wildlife problems that hunters keep under control in gun friendly states.

[wastedyears]

I love Japanese food. Haven’t had Indian in a long time, and I no longer can have Mexican food. It’s a trigger for me. :(

[Red_Devil 232]

A 218-pound bear is just a dangerous as the same sized “Teddy Bear” walking down the center of the road in Ferguson, Mo.

[goldi]

Bears...They’re cute but they kill.

[soycd]

Wild animals that don’t stay away from humans and instead endanger them or their animals need educated. Out in the sticks we provide free education with anything from 55 grain to 600 grain lead. Most all quietly pass the final exam.

I used to only educate the coyotes that happened upon the farm until they killed one of my cats. Now I offer free food at 300 yards to attract the slower learners.

Bears get the hound dogs unleashed for a quicker learning curve.

[FreeReign]

This story is eight years old.

[MrEdd]

It wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
That’s grounds for shootin’ right there.

[Navy Patriot]

Like baseball, every once in a while, I get a good piece of one.

[Delta Dawn]

I think that those liberal-elitist dogs of NJ put out fliers to the Bear community inviting them into their neighborhoods so that the police would have something else to shoot...

[Delta Dawn]

Just wondering, were these Black Bears armed, or unarmed?

I hope Holder is standing by the white courtesy phone...

[9YearLurker]

I believe Irvington is a town, and with just over 50,000 people, the 30th largest municipality in NJ.

[dead]

Any hungry bears mostly going to find soul food in Irvington, maybe an old perogi, but mostly just soul food.

[jaz.357]

Must like Soul food!

Just saying.

[Victor]

"...I believe Irvington is a town, and with just over 50,000 people, the 30th largest municipality in NJ....."

Yes, BUT....it's not a cow town that is isolated. Irvington is next to Bloomfield, next to West/South Orange, next to Maplewood, next to Newark....well, you get the picture.

It's one big sprawling suburbia/city complex.