Posted on 04/18/2008 8:02:18 PM PDT by george76
A former member of Bear Education and Resource, an anti-hunting organization that blames people and their unsecured garbage for New Jersey's bruin troubles, was charged today with deliberately feeding the animals.
Susan Kehoe, 57, was videotaped providing bags of sunflower seeds to bears in the backyard of her Vernon Township home... conservation officers watched her repeatedly feed bears ...
BEAR protested public hunts that were held in 2003 and 2005 in the northwest corner of the state, and continues to oppose state efforts to trap nuisance bears.
Kehoe and BEAR contend humans and their improperly stored trash are the problem, not bears.
Another bear activist who also lives in Vernon was sentenced to 30 days in jail in December for interfering with a state trap that was placed in Kehoe's neighborhood...
"By feeding the bears, she created a public annoyance, specifically habituating the bears to human food sources," ...
"That Vernon area has had a high number of instances of home break-ins by bears..."
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
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Susan Kehoe
A-haa!... Socialists try to do to bears what they also are trying to do to humans...dependence!!! One bad, the other good per goobermint decree.
That’s kind of like what Timothy Treadwell did — and look at what happened to him.
Socialists...do as I say not as I do
I live in this area. This woman, and her whole BEAR group, have been trouble for years. I’m glad she finally got nailed.
Hah! Typical hypocrite animal rights nut job. Break the law by feeding bears and draw them to the neighborhood where they become problem bears.
I hope they have great pics of it!
Apparently the bears were conditioned to even ring the doorbell and then go around the side of the house and wait for her to toss food out!
Bear activists????
Do any of these commie lib lunatics work? Have families? Have a clue?
Yeah, my house being one of them. I hope this c-word gets the book thrown at her.
bump & a ping
This Keohoe and the leader Lynda Smith should both be doing time in Rahway for what they’ve done.
Instead Kehoe will get a suspended sentence and some type of counseling that will probably be staffed by state employees sympathetic to her “cause” while the fast increasing bear population in the state continue to lose fear of humans.
The PETA people feeding the bears will just increase the home break-ins.
Then PETA types will say that it is our fault.
She should be grateful that she didn't become Susan Klondike in the manner of eco-compostriate er eco-compatriot, Timothy Snackwell.
As if we didn't have enought with SWAT break ins, now bears are getting into the action.
460 weatherby mag takes care of all “bears”.......dumster divers or not !
I think Timmy Treadwell tried more than just feeding the bears....from his “movie” he sounded like he wanted to marry some of them and bear their children....
Feeding wild animals is a bad idea. They will ask for more and more. Like humans when you give them handouts in the form of welfare.
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