BRUNO ESCAPES AGAIN - A weird bear hunt in Germany

DER SPIEGEL ^ | June 16, 2006 | cgh/ap/dpa/afp

[Atlantic Bridge]

Once again, Bruno the bear has escaped his hunters in Bavaria after repeated sightings in a popular hiking area. Meanwhile, a quick search on Google turns up plenty of Bruno traces.

Bear traps from America, bear dogs from Finland, bear hunters from Bavaria -- all of them are still no match for Bruno. The brown bear, officially known as "JJ1" once again made an appearance near the south-eastern town of Bad Tölz on Thursday evening not far from where he received a glancing blow from a car on Wednesday night.

Not content merely to reignite the panic that has accompanied his every move over the past month, Bruno also took out yet another sheep on Thursday night in Bavaria -- adding to his total of over 30 dead sheep, a handful of slaughtered chickens and a pair of munched bunnies.

[finnsheep]

This is NORMAL bear behavior when bears are not hunted. Here in the Pocono Mountains, about 75 miles from downtown New York City, a bear went into our barn, killed a goat and dragged her out. The other bears have climbed over the fences to our pastures (4' high woven wire), killed sheep and then picked up the sheep and carried them back out of the field. These were adult sheep weighing about 150 lbs.
Bears will eat anything they can get away with. They have killed mostly women and children here in the Eastern USA.

[Atlantic Bridge]

WOW Pocono Mountains!!!!

My uncle owns a mansion in Hemlock Farms. That is somewhere in the Poconos. He is member of the local country club there and I had the privilege to spend some time on their golf course and swimming pool. They even have black bears in Hemlock Farms. Twentyfive years ago I chased one together with my dog up a tree in my uncle's garden. I am happy that the bear had no intention to eat me up. As I already said - I was a crazy kid then.

The problem with our German bear is that he kills about 10 sheep a week. This is much more than normal. The other bears in the Alps kill about the same number every year.

Greetings to the Pocono's from Germany Lake Constance

Andreas

[Juan Medén]

Well, if they can't catch a bear, what are their chances of catching "insurgents."

[mikrofon]

That's an alien bear -- note the similarity of its path
to the constellation Ursa Major:

[Clemenza]

Reminds me of an old song "have you heard, the German bear!"

Whoops. It think the last word was "band."

Well, if you like, we have plenty of surplus ursus americanus (black bears) that you can have. They have actually been spotted and caught in Irvington, NJ, which is but 10 miles from New York City.

Of course, the local hippies refused to allow a bear hunt for over twenty years, despite the fact that farmers were having their sheep and cows destroyed on a regular basis, and little children were getting killed on a regular basis.