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Charges pending for man who waded into river full of bears for selfie
ABC7 ^ | 8/`17/18 | Staff

Posted on 08/20/2018 9:38:35 AM PDT by Rebelbase

Youtube video: Ignorant human being putting his life and bears lives in danger Brooks Falls Alaska 2018 08 09

Brook Falls in Katmai Park, AK. There is a viewing platform safely elevated for tourists to watch the bears feeding on salmon which is the point of view from which the video of the idiot was taken.

The man was part of a group of three people who NPS said entered a closed area of Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska earlier this month. Explore.org's popular Bear Cam captured the man as he waded into water knee-deep while five bears fed in the river nearby. After snapping his selfie, the man remained in the river for approximately 90 more seconds, taking photos and observing the bears before he returned to the shore.

It's not clear if the bears, who were feeding at the time, noticed the man.

People watching the webcam did notice the man, though, and they contacted park rangers to report his behavior. Rangers made contact with the man and are finalizing charges against the group, whose identities have not been released.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; katmainationalpark
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To: Rebelbase

No blood, no foul.


41 posted on 08/20/2018 10:40:29 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
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To: dfwgator

I knew someone would post that.

Looks like there is more than one Sponge Bob fan here.


42 posted on 08/20/2018 10:42:17 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

“That’s an oval! It has to be a circle!”

I love that episode.


43 posted on 08/20/2018 10:43:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FatherofFive

Somewhere around 5:00pm east coast time there are narrators on the bear came feed. All the bears are know by sight to the park service. The narrators call the scene like a baseball game.

“#128 is an older female, she sure likes that spot on the lip above the plunge pool and she has good fishing technique. Uh oh, that young bear moving her way appears to be challenging.
She’s distracted and it’s affecting her fishing

Meanhile, in the jacuzzi below here we see one of older males #454 catching his fill, at this point he’s just stripping the skin off and eating it and leaving the carcass to float downstream where the younger bears and other scavengers will consume it.

Looks our challenger to #128 on the lip has give up on his attemps to muscle the older bear out of her favorite spot and is moving off to another area......”


44 posted on 08/20/2018 10:47:32 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: dfwgator

That one and Doodle Bob.


45 posted on 08/20/2018 10:47:54 AM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Magnum44

Silence is golden
Duct tape is silver


46 posted on 08/20/2018 10:51:24 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: mabarker1

Yay. I get to post this again;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80zartgpSOU


47 posted on 08/20/2018 10:56:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Blue Jays

The only thing I can figure is that if he did get attacked, someone may have shot the bears while trying to rescue him.


48 posted on 08/20/2018 10:57:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Rebelbase

I love this cam. I watch it every year now.


49 posted on 08/20/2018 11:12:09 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Rebelbase

A fool and his life are soon parted.


50 posted on 08/20/2018 11:20:44 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Rebelbase
Charges pending for man who waded into river full of bears for selfie

REALLY?

I'd think that a problem; of this MAGNITUDE; would eventually self correcting.

51 posted on 08/20/2018 11:45:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rebelbase
 

52 posted on 08/20/2018 11:52:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FatherofFive
But how was he endangering the bears?

Easy answer.

If he DID get eaten; the bears would then realize there was MUCH slower 'food' up on that platform; thus becoming 'problem' bears that have to either be relocated or killed.

53 posted on 08/20/2018 11:55:36 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dfwgator

I noticed there were no bits of Charmin® in this picture...


54 posted on 08/20/2018 11:56:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: arrogantsob

‘youths’ have to worry about she-bears.


55 posted on 08/20/2018 11:59:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Yes.


56 posted on 08/20/2018 12:01:26 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Rebelbase

Put him in the cell with the idiot who challenged the buffalo in YSNP.


57 posted on 08/20/2018 12:27:37 PM PDT by windowdude
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To: FatherofFive

“Somewhere around 5:00pm east coast time there are narrators on the bear came feed. All the bears are know by sight to the park service. The narrators call the scene like a baseball game.”

Error on my part, the bear announcers come on about 10:00pm east coast time.


58 posted on 08/20/2018 1:08:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: Rebelbase
All the bears are know by sight to the park service.

Interesting. I wondered how they would track a guy if he did kill the idiot. So would they have to see the act, or see the bear with a lot of blood. What if the bear just whacks the dude and he drowns?

59 posted on 08/20/2018 1:36:43 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive
What if the bear just whacks the dude and he drowns?

'Tis obvious: he sleeps wid da fishes!

60 posted on 08/20/2018 1:38:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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