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Russian Town Invaded, Ruled by Hungry Bears
Complex ^ | September 5, 2015 | Claire Landsbaum

Posted on 09/06/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One Russian town is living your worst nightmare: a bear apocalypse. Luchegorsk, a town of 21,000 near the Chinese border, is being terrorized by hungry bears following a shortage of wild nuts and berries, a.k.a. foods bears usually eat to fatten up for the winter. The Guardian reports that one brown bear and one Himalayan bear are "ruling" Luchegorsk, walking through the streets and attacking residents. Asian black bears have also been spotted, and another 30-ish bears are circling the town's borders.

Local police are using sirens, cars, and pressure hoses and firing into the air to scare the bears away. Streets are filled with loudspeakers telling people not to leave their houses, and children are being kept inside. It's basically the end of times, and there's good reason to be cautious—one man was attacked by a bear at a bus stop, and another was ambushed while walking his dog.

So far at least two bears have been shot because they "posed a real threat to humans and were attacking local residents," said Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the region’s animal control department.

As the bear's food and habitats disappear, bear attacks in Russia are on the rise. Last summer a heat wave drove bears into cities, and at least three people died in bear attacks. The summer of 2010 was so hot that Siberian bears dug up human graves looking for food. According to Vasilyev, the situation will only get worse over time. Looks like it's time for Luchegorsk residents to embrace their new bear overlords.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bearpocalypse; bears; luchegorsk; russia
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The only good bear is a dead bear.
Why don’t they know this?


21 posted on 09/06/2015 8:42:18 PM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Bullish
The only good bear is a dead bear.

That sounds specist. #bearlivesmatter

22 posted on 09/06/2015 8:49:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob ( Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste.)
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To: Bullish

Maybe because the bear is their symbol. Perhaps it`s kinda like having flocks of Bald Eagles invading an American town and driving folks out, the Feds would probably be hesitant to allow the mass shooting of them.


23 posted on 09/06/2015 8:55:08 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They should capture them and conscript them into The Russian Bear Cavalry.

Google it.


24 posted on 09/06/2015 8:57:50 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dfwgator

Wow. Great commercial. Also, cool to see Mark Levin at the Reagan Library afterward. Thanks.


25 posted on 09/06/2015 9:03:08 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: umgud

That was a grizzly tail, umgood.


26 posted on 09/06/2015 9:04:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

See a bear, see a bearskin rug. The Mosin-Nagant in volley fire can take down the biggest bear. What’s the problem?


27 posted on 09/06/2015 9:10:28 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

28 posted on 09/06/2015 9:26:46 PM PDT by snarkpup ("No matter how paranoid you are, you're not paranoid enough." - Susan Modesky)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Am image of the bears before they went about terrorizing the town for food!
29 posted on 09/06/2015 9:42:42 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Walker Cruz Carson | hard targets.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Too many bears in Siberia are dying of old age — hmmm, wonder what the solution is. /s


30 posted on 09/06/2015 10:02:21 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: dfwgator

One of the greatest ads ever. One of the candidates needs to dust it off and use it again


31 posted on 09/06/2015 10:43:58 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The town folks should be aware that bear meat is delicious.


32 posted on 09/06/2015 10:48:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: PROCON

Na,na,na my big white a55!


33 posted on 09/07/2015 3:01:33 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: pleasenotcalifornia
My friends on Kodiak who have eaten Brown bear say only the back-strap tastes reasonably well.

They are very bold people. Brown bear meat is usually infested with porkworms.

34 posted on 09/07/2015 4:12:43 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Exactly. And several people will have some nice new rugs.


35 posted on 09/07/2015 4:42:34 AM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: imardmd1

Send over the knucklehead dentist from Minnesota!


36 posted on 09/07/2015 5:33:40 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Darksheare

Bear Apocalypse for the new Undead Thread? We could play creepy and atmospheric Russian music ...


37 posted on 09/07/2015 5:49:43 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I want to live my cat's life.)
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To: Tax-chick

Bear apocalypse, flamingo carnage redux, and one other possible thread.
Hmm.


38 posted on 09/07/2015 9:57:42 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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