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Hiker's body found after bear drags him from trail into forest in Japan, officials say
CBS News ^ | August 15, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/15/2025 8:08:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: struggle

Nothing worse than a bear on a sake bender....


21 posted on 08/15/2025 8:56:14 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Red Badger

They have bears in Japan? How did they get there?


22 posted on 08/15/2025 9:00:28 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: Kleon

Bears can swim................


23 posted on 08/15/2025 9:02:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“You don’t really come here to hunt, do you?”


24 posted on 08/15/2025 9:24:49 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger; marktwain

Excellent Reuters article about how Japan’s rigid gun control laws may be getting in the way of bear control.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/JAPAN-BEARS/dwpkkldkapm/


25 posted on 08/15/2025 9:28:00 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Sirius Lee
Trouble’s a bruin.

Nicely done

26 posted on 08/15/2025 9:35:36 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: SaveFerris
the ministry estimates that the number of brown bears in Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, more than doubled to about 11,700 in the three decades through 2020

But it's Climate change that is causing the increased number of attacks.

27 posted on 08/15/2025 9:40:32 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: Red Badger

Oops.


28 posted on 08/15/2025 9:44:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Kleon

Land bridges during an ice age, all sort of mischief was caused by those dang things.


29 posted on 08/15/2025 9:46:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sirius Lee
Trouble’s a bruin.

That's an unbearable pun.

30 posted on 08/15/2025 10:13:23 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Zhang Fei

Thank you for the link.


31 posted on 08/15/2025 10:35:29 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“You again! Alright, you know the drill.”


32 posted on 08/15/2025 11:16:30 AM PDT by 12GA
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To: BigEdLB
Yogi moves up from simple picnic baskets...

You mean pic-a-nic baskets, right? :)

33 posted on 08/15/2025 2:56:04 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Red Badger

Bad eyes, thought it said Hitler, haha.


34 posted on 08/15/2025 5:23:44 PM PDT by old-ager
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