Seriously people, stop taking 'selfies' with bears
Lake Tahoe Hikers Taking Too Many Dangerous Bear Selfies - ABC News
Posted on 10/27/2014 11:21:13 AM PDT by Stoat
Hikers in Sierra Nevada are being told to stop taking selfies with the wild bears.
The worrying and very real trend has seen visitors to South Lake Tahoe, California, put themselves at risk to get a share-able snap of themselves with a bear in the background.
Hikers have got as close as a few feet away from the wild bears, and officials have now been forced to send out an official warning.
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A recent visitor at the site said she saw dozens of people taking selfies with the bears, who were unafraid of the group.
‘There were like 30 people taking pictures of themselves with the bears,’ Manutsawee Buapet told ABC News.
‘They weren’t scared at all of the people and one bear cub came as close as two feet to the tourists.’
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Seriously people, stop taking 'selfies' with bears
Lake Tahoe Hikers Taking Too Many Dangerous Bear Selfies - ABC News
And the Bear Demographic is pleased!
Well, between this and the feller who advised us not to eat Ebola-infected feces I’m getting all sorts of good life advice today.
Worst
Yogi
Bear
Episode
EVER!
Natural selection is a biotch!
Gunner
People doing this must have had too many Sierra Nevada Bigfoots.
I blame Disney and Bambi for anthropomorphizing wild animals for the masses.
What we have here are Darwin events about to happen.
Bear ... Be fore-Beared.
Common sense
“About” to happen?
Remember that Liberal enviro bear groupie up in Alaska who manged to record himself getting eaten by either a grizzly or kodiak several years back?
Sometimes a persons sole purpose in life is to act as a warning for others.
That ranks right up there with the “don’t eat cat poop to avoid Ebola” advice I read elsewhere on FR this AM. LOLOLOL!
5 second difference between our posts.
Nice.
And that's the most troubling part of this story. A few idiots getting themselves mauled taking a vanity pic with a wild animal is no skin off my nose. But bears acclimated to humans as a result is a real problem. They're more likely to intrude on inhabited areas, or approach tourists/visitors with food, etc. No good can come from that.
Bears invented the photo bomb.
omg! Where did you find that pic?
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