Posted on 09/18/2019 5:35:52 PM PDT by beaversmom
Police had been “working with (Colorado Parks and Wildlife) to track down this fella all morning in the 23500 block of E. Briarwood Dr.,” Aurora police said in a tweet about 10 a.m. Tuesday.
As of 11 a.m. the bear had been tracked to the area of Arapahoe Road and E-470.
Officer Anthony Camacho, spokesman with the Aurora Police Department, said police stopped monitoring the bear’s location at about 1:30 p.m.
“He didn’t commit any crimes, he didn’t steal any picnic baskets or anything so we didn’t apprehend him,” Camacho said. “We decided to just leave it be.”
Camacho said authorities with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office have also stopped tracking the bear.
A drone video of the bear meandering near a retention pond beside E-470 around 4:10 p.m. Tuesday was taken earlier in the afternoon, according to Camacho.
He said authorities expect the animal to find its way out of the residential area on its own.
“If you see this bear please call 911, do not approach,” police wrote in a tweet. “Some social media posts state we have the bear, we do not yet.”
Jason Clay, spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, instructed any residents who see the bear to call Colorado State Patrol at 303-329-4501.
Clay said bears are extremely active this time of year as they prepare for hibernation.
“They’re really active getting ready for hibernation and getting their fat stores up,” he said. “They can be active up to 20 hours a day and eating 20,000 calories a day.”
Clay said wildlife officials decided not to tranquilize the bear in east Aurora in an effort not to scare it onto a thoroughfare or interstate. He said in order to move the bear, officials usually must shoot it with a tranquilizer, which often occurs when a bear is in a tree.
The current plan is to tranquilize and relocate the bear at a future date after it has become more stationary if it doesn’t wander back where it belongs, Clay said.
Telegram.
Landshark.
Was he BEARING arms?
I would have to guess that they stopped tracking the bear because it was costing to much money.
Aurora is a suburb of Denver, but on the east side. The bear is way east of the mountains, and probably followed a creek or river all the way through the city.
What does the outdoor cat union have to say?
A few years ago a bear was being a nuisance in Panama City. Wildlife officials chased him up a tree and firemen stood below with a net or something.
They greatly underestimated the bear’s size and when they shot him with a dart, he fell out of the tree and right through the fireman’s boom.
It turned out the bear was not hurt and they carried him around 65 miles to the Apalachicola National Forest. Well a week later he was back only 2 blocks from where they had caught him.
This time they took him to the Eglin AFB reservation and apparently this time he stayed.
So in Aurora you can go around and crap in people’s yards?
Maybe the bear is looking to score some weed...
They are counting on you!
Then, the little old lady died. Dogs and cats started vanishing...
Word got out it was a MEXICAN bear, and no one wanted him to be deported, that ICE station being there and all.
Yogi ping.
Well maybe she was feeding the dogs and cats too.
You can’t just automatically blame the gator. Probably didn’t even have any DNA evidence on him.
Stealing picanic baskets is a crime. Ask Boo Boo.
Ping!
What’s your take on this? I remember you saying with Bill Frady on his radio show that bears that get comfortable around humans are more dangerous.
XX? Shouldn't that be a *her*? ;)
Local Bear by Stripper’s Union
Kind bird and a good jam session
Local bear knows what’s good to eat
Local bear takes a trip to the lakeshore
Where the rednecks and the hippies all meet
Smell patchouli and a college jazz
Red wine and a lot of sharp knives
Kick’n up past the Kicking Horse Pass
Roll the tone out for a mellow good time
Not as smart as the average bear
Picnic baskets around the people down there
Watch the action from a thin Fir tree
Helicopter dances as far as you could see
Let’s dance
Tots are playing on the beach below him
Too close for comfort so they call the cops
Safety first for those that don’t know him
Pop a cap and see the big bear drop
Mountie, wish you were directing traffic?
Instead of taking down the big black oaf?
Lose-lose with this demographic
You’re a killer if you do and you’re damned if you don’t
Not finished and he rolls and balls
They cry murder and ignore the band
Heavy head to the lake he crawls
And drowns to the sound of Dixieland
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