[Romulus]

This would never have happened if someone were drilling for oil there.

Why not?

[SW6906]

It's a joke, son. Just a joke.

[keithtoo]

It was more of a wish than a statement of fact.

It is a fact however, that in the parts of the Gulf of Mexico where there are drilling rigs, there has never been a recorded bear attack. Not a grizzly bear anyway.

[gg188]

This would never have happened if someone were drilling for oil there. Why not?

Because if we were drilling for oil there, the bear habitat would be ruined, the entire state devasted, the eco balance destroyed, the ozone layer gone for ever, making a vast wasteland, and, and....