Animal rights person locks self in bear trap.

AP and Fox News ^ | August 25, 2004 | AP

[TYVets]

Woman Locks Self Into Bear Trap

VERNON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) —

An animal-rights activist protesting the state's bear control methods locked herself into a bear trap Monday before being arrested.

Angela Metler, 47, was charged with obstruction of governmental functions and additional charges against her are pending, authorities said.

"Once she entered the trap, she locked herself with a lock to the bear trap itself, which required us to first remove the lock and then remove the lady from the bear trap," Sgt. Robert Walsh said. Police also said they had to disassemble part of the trap to get her out.

Authorities responded to a private residence in the area shortly after 3 p.m. and found Metler inside the trap, although it was not immediately known how long she was inside.

Last December, 328 bears were killed during a six-day hunt, the first in New Jersey in 33 years. In July, a state game panel sanctioned a second hunt for this December, prompting opposition from Environmental Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell, who has threatened to withhold permits from hunters.

Metler, who is director of the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, was a vocal opponent of last year's bear hunt. At the state game panel's July meeting, she told The Associated Press she planned to continue her opposition to a second hunt.

"I'm going to fight it with everything I've got," she said. "I'm not going away."

[TYVets]

Two choices as I see it, put her away or use her for bait.

[TheBigB]

Look, she's stuck in the trap. She's obviously suffering. *bang*

[Pukin Dog]

Why didn't they just drag away the trap with her ass in it?

[QQQQQ]

I think they should have left here there.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Why didn't they just drag away the trap with her ass in it?

And haul her straight to the bear woods.

Ma'am...this ain't a bear trap, it's a bear food trap.

[Jemian]

Shucks. I'd just leave her there.

[TYVets]

"I think they should have left her there."

And changed the lock?

.

[Ramius]

Yah... don't they use those to relocate bears?

Just heft it into a pickup and relocate her to someplace nice and remote where she can be free and not be a nuisance to people anymore.

Problem solved.

[HairOfTheDog]

relocate her to someplace nice and remote where she can be free and not be a nuisance to people anymore.

...Maybe San Francisco...

[bewildered]

Here in AK, our bears think those activists are tasty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3174636.stm

[Fintan]

"I'm going to fight it with everything I've got," she said. "I'm not going away."

 

 

If only...

[Gator113]

I think that we need a crowd control gas that causes immediate and severe diarrhea. In no time at all, so many of these freaks would be on the run.

[plain talk]

Just leave her in the trap until she begs to be released. After a week in the cage she would be grovelling pretty good.

[apackof2]

I have no problem with hunting bear but traps are just plain cruel

[Paul Atreides]

Please, tell me that you came up with that PC title for the article.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I vote to use her for bait, if she doesn't smell to bad for the bears.

[TYVets]

"Please, tell me that you came up with that PC title for the article."

I did it, couldn't help myself.

[fat city]

"Rangers eventually lured her out with a case of Ranier Beer"

[Ramius]

I have no problem with hunting bear but traps are just plain cruel

Uh... they're talking about a box-type live trap, not the chew-off-the-leg clamp traps. Those kind were never used for bear anyway, as far as I know.

[Alouette]

An animal-rights activist protesting the state's bear control methods locked herself into a bear trap Monday before being arrested.

They should have left her out there in the bear trap.

But, the Jersey Devil isn't a bear, is it?

Even more reason.