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Hilarious Picture from Criminal Incident in Florida Shows Smokey the Bear Arresting Sign-Stealing “Dumb Criminals”
American Tribune ^ | August 11, 2025 | Adam Stanton

Posted on 08/11/2025 9:44:46 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/11/2025 9:44:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Florida Man Ping!......................


2 posted on 08/11/2025 9:45:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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3 posted on 08/11/2025 9:46:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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His actual name is just “Smokey Bear.”

https://smokeybear.com/


4 posted on 08/11/2025 9:49:27 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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“stealing two Smokey the Bear signs from state forests and selling them for $1,900 each on Facebook Marketplace”

Tack on 5 more years in jail just for being a dumbass. SMH


5 posted on 08/11/2025 9:51:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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His actual name is just “Smokey Bear.”

No middle initial, like maybe Smokey D. Bear?
6 posted on 08/11/2025 9:52:32 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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““stealing two Smokey the Bear signs “....$1900.

selling them for $1,900 each on Facebook Marketplace......PRICELESS!................


7 posted on 08/11/2025 9:53:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Bastard!

He’ll just have to grin and bear i.........

Bad puns, bad puns whatshca gonna do?

whatshca gonna do when the puns for you?

Bad puns, bad puns whatshca gonna do?


8 posted on 08/11/2025 9:55:30 AM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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No middle initial, like maybe Smokey D. Bear?

Nyet.

9 posted on 08/11/2025 10:13:30 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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I love Smokey Bear!


10 posted on 08/11/2025 10:32:30 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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The perps believed the signs they saw on the highway “Bear Left”. Wrong!!!


11 posted on 08/11/2025 10:33:07 AM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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12 posted on 08/11/2025 10:35:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Gary Larson is just so talented. A little off kilter, but talented nonetheless.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 10:39:31 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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He should be thankful it wasn’t Santa the clause


14 posted on 08/11/2025 10:50:31 AM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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Point of Order. It is Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear.


15 posted on 08/11/2025 10:52:17 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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He is probably mystified how he got caught.


16 posted on 08/11/2025 10:53:36 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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No middle initial, like maybe Smokey D. Bear?

So, he obviously had a stage name since he had a TV show and everything: Smokey the Bear Animated Series | Episode 1 (1969)
17 posted on 08/11/2025 11:08:58 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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At least we found a new revenue stream for Florida: market those signs ourselves!


18 posted on 08/11/2025 11:18:06 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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Season 1, Episode 16 of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show aired on March 6, 1960. That show had the second Dudley Do-Right segment ever aired. It had a bear named Stokey who was hypnotized by Snidely Whiplash to become a pyromaniac. That show wasn't seen again for 40 years after the U.S. Forest Service arrived at Jay Ward's office in full uniform to complaint about the parody: Dudley Do Right 02 Stokey The Bear
19 posted on 08/11/2025 12:13:16 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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Way too long ago some brothers at my fraternity decided to acquire some decorations for our house after the midnight hour.

They drove all over the Big Bend area, finding road signs that just happened to have fallen off their posts. They were careful not to take anything that would compromise safety...no stop signs, speed limits, etc. Instead they were large, informational, signs that nobody would miss.

Thus later in the year, when I moved into the house, I had a large, reflective, blue and white sign identifying the area as a particular water district hanging on my wall.


20 posted on 08/11/2025 12:13:40 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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