Good thing Bradley Campbell, that Democrat goofball, cancelled 2004's hunt. Looks like NJ needs a dead kid or two before it gets serious about the black bears running wild in Sussex County. (And Passaic, and Morris, etc. etc.)
It's funny reading posts by tough guys who think a 100 pound cub is a piece of cake. Disney fans who've never seen a real bear, I guess.
It's probably going to come to that. Sadly.
I did get some more information. The woman was the husband of a guy we know who's a retired school teacher and part time plumber, very nice guy. It was literally less than 1/8 mile away from my house.
The woman called 9/11, they told her to go into the basement and stay there till the deputies arrived. Fortunately, they are doing a major renovation so the whole house is torn up and not finished and therefore the impact of the bears was minimal.
I've had 'em right up to my back screen door. Some bits of wood and screen tween me and a full grown adult male. That was a bit unnerving. I hope this isn't prelude to the movie "When bears attack".