Bear swats Sparta toddler

Daily Record ^ | May 21, 2003 | Rob Jennings

[ZULU]

Nuts. Absolutely nuts. This is why people like Lautenberg and Corzine get elected in Jersey. The residents there are just nuts!

[BellStar]

"Mark Tregidgo was frightened for some time after the incident, but had calmed down by the evening.

"He was terrified," his mother said. "He kept smacking his head, going, 'bear bear bear."

2 year old knows he is/was in danger. Mom is cluless. Sad! Still is with this mom.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Those dang swatting bears again. This most be addressed. Sarcasm Off.

[Fintan]

A black bear swatted a 2-year-old boy outside his family's home Tuesday afternoon, police said.
 

I'm confused...was it the bear's family home or the boy's?

[Puppage]

MORE BEAR CONTROL!!

[whipitgood]

I'm not surprised the bear swatted him. Those two-year-olds can be SO annoying!!! His mother probably TOLD him to leave the bear ALONE. Even bears can only take so much!
I have a friend who lives in an area where 'bad bears' are released into the wild after capture and transport. He defines a 'bad bear' as any bear he can see!

[ChicagoRepublican]

We need a BEAR patrol!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Right! What makes these bears think they can just do whatever they please? John Kerry is introducing a bill that will ban bears from all public places unless confined to a cage. Kerry says we non-bears have put up with this bear arrogance for long enough. He is also recommending that bear taxes be raised to pay for all the harm they are doing to the environment.

[Grut]

...the bear went into a neighbor's yard and relieved itself....

Well, that answers that question!

[ZinGirl]

"I'm upset about it. I'm devastated," Tregidgo said.

"I think my son should just grin and bear it", she continued.

[csvset]

Mark Tregidgo, 2, suffered a head bump when a black bear took a swat at him in his family's front yard in Sparta Tuesday. Pictured with him are his mom and dad, Amy and Django, and sister, Crystal. Dawn Benko / Daily Record

[hopespringseternal]

The frightening incident, although extremely rare, is expected to strengthen calls for a statewide bear hunt.

Oh, I don't know how they can be that rare since I hear about bear attacks all the time in the news.

But Tregidgo, an animal lover with five cats and a dog, had sympathetic words for the dead bear.

Yeah, she's a democrat alright.

[netmilsmom]

It was a freakin bear!!!
If anything that large came near one of my kids, I'd shoot it too.
And the two year old just walked out of the house? What was that about?

[11B3]

If you can see a bear, you can shoot it. Dead bears are good bears to anyone who spends any amount of time in the woods. Just shoot, shovel, and shut up about it - permit my @ss, and "in season with a tag" my a$$. Why leave a predator alive for the next person to be attacked? (Unless there's some DemonRats on the trail behind you, then you just want to wound the bear for them. hehehehe)

[Consort]

...and was it a picture of the bear's family?

[Area51]

"But Tregidgo, an animal lover with five cats and a dog, had sympathetic words for the dead bear.

"It did not strike my son as an attack strike," Tregidgo said. "It was more like, 'What are you - are you a toy?'"

So if mom was that secure in the bear's actions why did they call the authoritites to have it dealt with. Let the kid play with the big teddy Bear. Hell, grab a toy and play tug of war or wrestle with it Maa. Grab a steak out of the fridge and see if you can get it to do tricks like stand on its two hind legs.

Fregging MAROONS!

[ZULU]

These people are dangerous wackos - read the follow-up in today's paper. Perfect examples of why New Jersey continues to give the nation Chrissie Whitmans, Imamu Barakas, and Frank Lautenbergs.

[Coleus]

A bear attack in Alaska

The following pictures are of a guy who works for the Forest Service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting. A large world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The monster was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head. It was over one thousand six hundred pounds, 12'6" high at the shoulder,14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild).

Think about it. You would be level with the bears belly button when he stood, he would look you in the eye when walking! This bear on its hind legs could walk up to the average single story house and look over the roof at eye level.

The bear had killed 2 other people. His last meal was the poor fellowon a nature hike. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber emptied. He shot6-times and hit the grizzly 4(they found seven 7mm slugs and four 38 caliber slugs in him) but obviously only wounded him since it was estimated to be 3 days prior to the bears death by the Forest Service man.

[nutmeg]

OMG... Wow, what a story... and those pictures!

Well, my bear story isn't as interesting as your Bear Attack in Alaska story in #18... We live in a fairly rural area in northern Connecticut. A black bear walked right by the windows I'm facing now back in March 2001. I was sitting here at the computer - surfing FR (what else?) - at about 2AM, and the bear just walked by me. It was black, with a brown snout, around 200lbs. Most of our neighbors have seen the same bear, or have seen the destruction it has left behind.

"Our" bear made a return visit last July. I had a suet cake for birds hanging from a heavy L-shaped wrought-iron hook mounted about 7-8 ft high outside. Also on that hook was a bird feeder filled with birdseed. In the morning we first noticed birdseed all over the deck (birds, squirrels and chipmunks were having a feast!). Then - we couldn't believe it - the heavy wrought iron hook was bent down and twisted in a shape that no human could've made. The suet cake and container was gone, and the bear's paw prints were all over the side of our light-colored house. Days later, I found the empty suet cake container at the edge of the woods.

I like gardening, but now I jump at the slightest sound in the woods around our house!

[nutmeg]

PING from Bear Country!