This picture shows a brown bear on the loose in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, on June 18, 2021
Posted on 07/22/2021 7:29:50 AM PDT by SJackson
This picture shows a brown bear on the loose in Sapporo, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, on June 18, 2021
Olympic COVID-19 rules mean spectators are banned, but one furry fan still tried to sneak into the Fukushima softball venue hosting the first sports event of the Tokyo Games: a bear. The animals are common across Japan and regularly spark frantic hunts when they venture into towns, where they have been known to attack and even kill local residents.
A Fukushima police spokesman confirmed the intruder was spotted last night and then again Wednesday morning, just hours before the opening pitch in a match pitting hosts Japan against Australia.
"A guard found a bear inside Azuma Sports Park early in the morning yesterday. We also received similar information this morning," the spokesman told AFP.
"We couldn't find or capture the bear, and while there won't be any spectators at the stadium, we are on alert and searching for the bear around the site."
Local media identified the animal as an Asian black bear, with the Sports Hochi daily saying the entire contingent of Olympic guards assigned to the venue spent the night searching for the creature.
They even blasted music and set off firecrackers in an effort to flush out the bear, the newspaper said.
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Must have been a Chicagoi Cub..................
It identifies as a female. So all good.
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.
Must be a Russian Bear.
“These bathrooms are not for bears. You must go elsewhere.”
But was the bear wearing a mask?
The Bear was there first
We have a tree that is some type of weird sub species of fir growing in the front yard of the house we are now selling. For years we have has bears climbing and breaking branches out of it. We would come home after a day with no or little wind and find a bunch of big branches (3” or larger diameter) on the ground below it. We were not sure what causing it until we found a big pile of bear poo near the trunk of the tree. The house is in town, we have lots of deer, but it is unusual to even see a bear. Climbing trees to get away from bears... not a good idea.
Kneeling humans make tasty snacks!
FWIW, Asian black bears tend to be appreciably more aggressive than the North American variety.
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As a side note, women’s softball is back in the olympics since 2008.....
Yay, more lesbians.
Cat Osterman, arguably the best female softball pitcher of all time is happily married......
Sounds to me like you have an irrational fear of athletic women. Is that what has inhibited your sex life all these years? Thinking that all the women whom you would have liked to approach were all lesbians?
LOL!
Well Well Well, look at what the cat dragged in at ESPN
Olympic softball: Team USA’s RBI and Mexico’s first home run in history — from one power couple!
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31863074/team-usa-rbi-mexico-first-home-run-history-one-power-couple
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