78- year-old woman charged for killing bear accidentally

Pickens County Progress ^ | Thursday, July 25, 2013 | Angella Reinhardt

[Pfesser]

Pickens... (a 76 year old)resident(with arthritis) Judy Gardner said the citation for the Georgia DNR issued her a citation for hunting out of season... that she had no intentions of killing the black bear she felt was threatening her safety.

... "The bear" was chasing her cat and he crashed into the door.... I was scared to death.

...she grabbed her .22 rifle... and fired shots into the air...<>...the bear moved toward the north end of the porch...she shoot three more times at the ground<> (she returned later) and spotted it later...lying by the driveway.

"I thought I saw movement and purposefully shot it twice because I didn't want to see it suffer...

...contacted DNR...which issued her a citation for illegally hunting out of season ...

[ltc8k6]

Clearly a scared old lady who accidentally killed the bear. No way she loses an appeal. No normal person/hunter uses a rimfire to hunt bear.

[null and void]

I think she must have stabbed the bear with it.

Thank God Kanawa lives in Canada!

Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death

[GregNH]

"The bear" was chasing her cat and he crashed into the door

It is possible the bear knocked himself out, fell to the ground in the driveway and was moving around trying to get his head cleared and she shot it twice to put it out it's misery.

[Egon]

Your link doesn’t take you to the story.

[dragnet2]

Was it a black bear?

It was a mixed species half white bear.

[Mark17]

Bears [and other such animals] are more important than HUMAN BEINGS... ... according to the environmental movement...

That is absolutely true. It reminds me of a Bible verse. Woe unto those who call good evil, and evil good.

[MeshugeMikey]

[FlingWingFlyer]

DNR? What’s that? Do Not Resuscitate? These guys are brain dead. She’s a 76 year old lady on her porch. The DNR boys might want to look up the definition of “hunting”.

[MeshugeMikey]

shooter known as white hispanic

[blackdog]

Shoot, shovel, shut yer mouth.

[Kartographer]

I would claim that the bear’s mother didn’t want to have the bear to begin with so she was just preforming an abortion.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Was it a black bear? Racist hag!

Reminds me of the scene from "Shoot to Kill," where Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger were being chased by a grizzly bear. The bear had them cornered and in desperation, Poitier turned and screamed at the bear. The bear promptly ran away to Berenger's amazement. Poitier responded, "everyone else around here is scared to death to see a black man; why should the bear be any different?"

[Las Vegas Ron]

Was it a black bear?

...she shoot three more times at the ground

Must have been.

[blackdog]

The cat was named “Skittles” , hence the attraction.

[dragnet2]

CNN is reporting she left the safety of her home and chased the black bear down before shooting the bear dead.

[MeshugeMikey]

EVERY BEAR A WANTED BEAR

[MeshugeMikey]

the 911 Dispatcher told her “we dont need...you to do that”

[MeshugeMikey]

rumor has it that the deceased was on the phone talking to Rachel Beartel prior to its death

[Pfesser]

I will be tomorrow. I got it from their paper which comes out a day early there.

[meatloaf]

I don’t bother walking out to the porch. Just shoot them out the kitchen window. Just remember, just because you can’t see the window frame through the scope, doesn’t mean it’s not in the way.

Other than that, it’s all good.