Posted on 08/12/2003 9:37:23 AM PDT by d-back
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He was a 400-pound hulking young bruin officials described as "predatory," looking for a meal.
She said he came up behind her on a trail in Wawayanda State Park in Sussex County, chased her down and tackled her.
She said she did the only thing she could. She threw a hard elbow at his snout, and caught him flush, stunning the bear and giving her time to escape.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Like watch more TV?
Outside of the various rodents, they're the most pesty beasts up there. They're only intolerable on those still, sweltering dog days and you're partially dressed, or swimming. When you smack them on your socks, they're going for your head. They don't seem to be bothered by DEET.
I wear puffy clothes, hat, thinner wool socks and bandannas. The style of the 17th-early 19th century. The puff in the garment allows unsticky freedom of movement, it's cool and the bugs can't poke deep enough to get you. There' always the puffy mosquito head net. I've worn them at night to keep from being eaten and sucked dry. It's like sleeping next to a running chain saw though; there's so many the buzz is deafening.
"In spring, bears feed on squawroot (a parasitic plant that grows on the roots of oak trees), grass, herbaceous material, grubs. The summer diet consists mostly of fruits such as serviceberry, huckleberry, blueberry, blackberry, and insects such as yellow jackets, ants, and beetles. Fall foods are important for bears because they need to store body fats to survive the winter when no foods are available. Some bears almost double their body weight in the fall by feeding on nuts and fruits especially acorns, beech nuts, cherries, and pokeberries.
I'll add carrion, fish and dug up rodents.
" Even black bear advocates admit male black bears, especially immediately prior to hibernation, will kill and eat people for food if the opportunity presents itself."
Amonst the people that have lived with them this is unknown, except for the injured, or folks that flee and display fright. They are not known to ever go after people as a food source. It's the mental picture the animal has of prey. Bears don't see human's as prey. They're not even known to take the time to go after birthing moms when they're down, like coyotes and wolves. Wolf packs don't go after humans either, only if they're down. That's because the bear is not a predator, it's a pig, a scavenger.
This story has an expert claiming this particular bear was acting as a predator. He's wrong. The bear had the woman down and there's no way in hell he would have allowed a girl to elbow his nose. He's FAST! He'd a taken her arm clean off. If she was attacked by the bear, it was becasue he is territorial and was probably pokin' his females somewhere nearby in his range. That means he's got the attitude they get when they're feeling amorous. If he was hungry, she'd have ended up as a fart.
From the article:
... I've never heard of one quite like this, in which someone punches or elbows the bear and is able to get up and run," said Lynn Rogers, a renowned bear behavior expert with the North American Bear Center of Wildlife Research Institute in Minnesota. "It's baffling that, if it was a predatory attack, anyone could escape a bear so easily and without injury."Don't think you're alone!
Sure it does: RealTV: Man fights bear and survives.
Genesis 9:3
Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants.
Man:
Kill the humans (abortion) and save the Bears, the spotted owls, the Canadian Geese and the whales and don't crack that turtle egg!! Otherwise you WILL go to jail!
You can get fined up to $10,000 for messing with those eggs and baby-killing physicians get paid government and private money $$$ to kill humans! Go figure.
http://endangered.fws.gov/esa.html#Lnk11 http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html#Species
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/785378/posts
http://endangered.fws.gov/
The Endangered Species Act of 1973
http://endangered.fws.gov/esaall.pdf
Page 4 Sec 3 (c)(8) don't crack those eggs, one might end the "life" of a bird, fish or turtle. I guess certain "mammals" (humans) do not apply.
http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/endanger/endanger_6.html
The Govt. recognizes that a fertilized egg from an animal is "alive" and protected by LAW (The Endangered Species Act of 1973) and when in a human, in God's image, it's just a blob of "unlive" protoplasm which can be aspirated if it's the mother's "choice" to do so with no protections under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. And whatever you do, DON'T SHOOT THAT POOR BEAR!!
Animal Rights Equal Human Rights - A Future Paradox?
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Licking their bear wounds
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Boy's bear visit speaks volumes about hunt
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County to round up and gas Canada geese
The Newark Star Ledger ^ | 06.29.03 | ROBERT E. MISSECK
Man who shot bear near house charged by DEP
Boston Globe ^ | 6.12.03
A hungry black bear barges in to kitchen
The Newark Star Ledger ^ | 06.12.03
Plan to Attend the May 22 Fish & Wildlife Hearing on Black Bear Hunting
NRA - ILA Grassroots Alert | May 10, 2003 | NRA - ILA Grassroots Alert
Bear Hunting In New Jersey
FreeRepublic ^ | 5/21/03 | tcostell
Bear swats Sparta toddler
Daily Record ^ | May 21, 2003 | Rob Jennings
Jersey Could End Bear Market (NJ lawmakers to give animal rights group $95,000 to end hunting)
NY Post | 5/7/03 | Ken Moran
Bear Kills Infant In Upstate N.Y.
Bear Dragged 5-Month-Old Away From Summer Bungalow Colony
http://cbsnewyork.com/siteSearch/news_story_1364547158_html
One trapped in West Milford; another killed at Vernon home
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/928120/posts?page=27#27
Black Bear shot in New Jersey
WCBS New York ^ | November 2, 2002
Bear attack in Utah
Salt Lake Tribune | 10 July 2003 | Matthew Baker
Infant killed by bear in NY state
Fox News
Don't Crack that egg!! Fines and Imprisonments. Oh, it's fine to abort babies and the govt. will pay for it.
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