Posted on 03/28/2025 7:17:44 PM PDT by bitt
A North Carolina man decided to take a more creative approach to tackling a persistent bear problem in his backyard by putting on a cartoony bear costume and, somehow, successfully scaring the unwelcome ursid away.
Video footage captured a man in Asheville, bravely approaching a ferocious-looking black bear in his own brown bear costume that more closely resembled a college mascot.
The man emerges from the side, attempting a mock prowl while slowly approaching the wild animal.
With caution thrown into the wind, the costumed man kept inching forward bit by bit, even growling at the black bear.
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It’s not them this time Boo Boo
That said, I saw a report once about a researcher who concluded that bull moose enter in an antler measuring contest, before engaging in rutting battles, and if the smaller bull is far smaller, he gives way to the larger bull, but that if close in size, they will fight.
The researcher built a Rube Goldberg contraption that towered over him, holding a number of pieces of foam rubber, like that used on #1! signs at ball games, lying horizontally. But when he pulled a cord, the foam rubber pieces flipped 90 degrees to vertical, and looked like he had moose antlers, 16’ high and 10’ wide.
His “research” consisted of wandering the woods during moose rutting season, and suddenly confronting bulls looking for fight.
According to the report, the bulls all took him for a monstrous moose, and ran away.
Don’t try that with a REAL grizzly bear. Black bears are not usually aggressive unless a mother is protecting her cubs.
SCARE?
Pure Anthropomorphism.
Dude is lucky it wasn’t mating season.
Got lost on his way to Florida, obviously.
I was afraid to read the ending...
Marlin Guide Gun in .45-70 would be my choice.
Just watch “The Revenant” and you’ll see how aggressive mama bears can really be.
Two falls ago, during mating season I had a large male Elk looking lustily at me from about ten yards away. And I realized that I was wearing an ‘elk colored T-shirt’... Now I don’t know how well elk see colors, but I was only carrying a .45 right then. For The rest of mating season I switched to blue T-shirts and carried the .454 Casull.
This is what’s now known as a “furry”. This fetish is becoming more and more popular as our civilization continues to slide the down the slippery slope.
“This fetish is becoming more and more popular as our civilization continues to slide the down the slippery slope.”
I don’t know exactly when the current weirdness started. I kind of end up back when Bruce Jenner went off the deep end. There should’ve been more and stronger condemnation.
Our side held back a little because he’s a conservative, but he shouldn’t been given a pass.
I find a 12 gauge scares off the pesky bears. Had one that didn’t take the hint. He got some turkey shot in the azz and never came back. Had to put an electric fence around the deck to keep them off. There’s no access except from inside the house and it’s 12’ off the ground and they still got up
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