Are people allowed to hold sunflower seeds in one hand, and swing a sharp machete in the other?
These days, half the people would be missing a hand.
*snicker* My buddy up in VA texted me a few pics a couple of months ago. He owns a house on 1.5 wooded acres and has bird feeders all over the joint. One morning, be was getting ready for work and heard something on his screened-in back porch. He looked out the back door, and there was a black bear tipping the scales at around 125 pounds there. It didn’t do any damage, it just came up the steps and opened the door like he was paying the mortgage on the place. He was on his side and was shoulder-deep in a big five gallon bucket of sunflower seeds my buddy puts out for the wildlife. I told him, that bruin is fattening up for the winter. He found an easy mark, and he’ll be back. Sure enough, two weeks later, he texted me another pic of a fresh bear muffin that was a full 10” long (he snapped the pic with a ruler across it), and it carted off a doe carcass at the end of his driveway that was killed by a car the day before. When critters find an easy food source, they can get downright ballsy about it. Look at tree rats. (That’s squirrels and/or raccoons, for you urban types. Think pizza-mooching subway rats in NYC.)