[ZULU]

Keep your garbage covered?? What crock. A bear can smell garbage even when its covered, and a bear can rip open the trunk of a car.

The only solution to New Jersey's Bear Problem is large scale hunting on a regualr basis so the bears there no longer view humans as a safe food source and their numbers are brought under control.

[Huck]

I live in bear country here in NJ and folks with any sense keep their trash cans in the garage.

[annyokie]

Solution: high-powered rifle.

[Huck]

The mother of the Sparta boy admitted to feeding bears a year ago

Imagine that. People acting like morons and then blaming the animals. What a shock.

[Fifth Business]

Bear arms... Bare arms...Bear fight. Somebody should be able to do something with that.

[Capriole]

He was unarmed as he confronted the bear...

What an idiot. What was he planning to do, argue with it? Debate it? Even then I think the bear would have had the advantage.

[Malsua]

I keep reading these stories and I have to question which is the greater idiot. The woman who feeds the bears or the idiot writing the stories. I live in NW Jersey. I see bears ALL the time. The come on to my deck, they roam the yard etc.

I put my trash out right before they come to collect it, otherwise it gets strewn all over.

If the bear was attacking my dog, I'd shoot it with my shotgun. Damn the gun banning lefties.

Furthermore, we are not encroaching on the bears. I've lived up here for years. The bears have been much much worse in the past couple years than at any other time. All the land within about 20 miles from me is either watershed or protected or unbuildable. There are no "new" homes going up in the Vernon area. The one development that was going to go up was kiboshed. There is little to no development in this area. There are simply MORE bears. Some of the other solutions include NOT shipping them up to this area from Philidelphia or New York, which has and continues to occur. -Mal

[TheSpottedOwl]

Notice how they're trying to blame the guy for protecting his dog? What this guy needs is a good shotgun, presuming that they're still legal in New Jersey.

Another problem is that the crazy enviromentalists refuse to understand that hunting animals periodically is a wise and humane practice. I believe that Virginia (correct me if I'm wrong or add more states) is having a huge deer problem. They're running out onto the highways, causing accidents and getting themselves splattered all over the place.

[green team 1999]

in rush words -"the bear was trying to tell us something"