Posted on 07/15/2009 5:51:29 AM PDT by HIDEK6
Interesting? Not at all....
Easy? Heck yes. If wildlife threatens us, it should immediately be eliminated.
One way or another...
Last I heard, humans are significantly more important than "wildlife".
LOL...uhhh...okaaay!
Prior posts: Should we protect wildlife even when it threatens us?
Ok, where are the bite and scratch marks. The last I heard most cops spoke dumb, but not to much bear.
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Unless you feel it would have been safe to walk around in one’s own yard with the bear nearby, and to let your children play while the bear was around, there WAS a threat. You don’t have to have been wounded by the bear for there to be a threat. I live in Lewisville, just west of Winston-Salem. Winston is no place for a bear to be hanging around. It is very urban. Chief Cunningham was right to take out the bear. (Full disclosure: Scott is a friend of mine, and comes across as a thoughtful guy, not a shoot from the hip type.)
And I live very close to bears and never give them a thought, if you do not corner them they are no threat. Jump and yell and a black bear will run and climb the nearest big tree and/or just run off.
I live very close to the Parkway, and I think I've seen one bear in my entire life. Though we are in the mountains, bear sitings are very rare. Had it been a deer, I wouldn't have been a bit surprised. I think there are more deer around here than people. lol
“...was making appropriate animal noises”
What are appropriate animal noises? Similar to Democrats bloviating?
I am 48 yo and have never known of bears in this area ever. However last year or the year before there was one found up a tree on Main street here. The trees there aren’t large (20’ maybe?) the rangers got it down by tranquilizing it but I have no idea what they did with it. We keep hearing of people spotting them now so apparently we ave bears again here in SE Ohio?
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