Posted on 05/09/2006 2:13:05 PM PDT by Coleus
Livingston residents were told to stay indoors after a black bear was spotted this morning roaming in backyards near the high school.
The bear was first spotted roaming on Amherst Place near the Livingston High School complex just after 6:00 a.m. Dozens of police officers responded and began chasing the 200-pound animal as it moved through the largely residential area.
They pursued it first behind the Cedar Commons senior citizen building, and then to Shrewsbury and Tremont avenues. The officers continued tracking the animal and by 7:30 a.m., it was again spotted a mile away on the eastern end of the township.
The animal was tracked to an area west of Shrewsbury Drive, and that section near Interstate 280 was cordoned off as police officers and the animal control officer waited with a tranquilizer gun.
Meanwhile, authorities activated the reverse 911 to warn residents to stay inside their homes. Several were spotted dragging in their trash cans. Police hit the local streets, driving around the windy suburban roads to tell residents.
The area where the bear was spotted is considered a bear exclusion zone, as part of a state policy on bears that is currently under debate.
Then catch the bear in a net and release it in the Corzine's office.
Hmmm...a large hairy beast in NJ? What's a certain senator from NY doing in the garden state?
Those democrats will back anything to thin the population.... of people. I thought Florio was bad, until McGreevey proved to be worse. Looks like Corzine is going to take it to a whole new level. Democrat legislators are despirately looking for rocks big enough to hide under.
By my memory, it was an idyllic place, really - a combination of nice clean suburbia and woods with trails for exploring. It sure would have fried my brain to run into a bear when playing in the woods!
ML/NJ
Pffft...whimps! Just sit on your porch with a .30-06-- when he comes by, your bear problems will be gone.
I got a recipe for baked bear paw :o)
I loived in Livingston until the year 2001. My mother ans sister still live there. I have moved to Sparta, a town where bear sightings are so common they don't even make the news anymore : )
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