Cabin owner fed bruins for years despite state's pleas

Denver Post ^ | 08/09/2009 | Jennifer Brown

[Daffynition]

But they are soooooooooooooooooooooo cute!

[Jemian]

She probably shouldn't have been alone out there in her state."

Why? She was happy doing what she was doing and living where she was. I wouldn't choose it, but she obviously did. I bet she would have been terribly upset, lonely, and bereft if she had been forced to live in a "home" somewhere "for her own good."

We all have to die sometime. She was happy up until her death.

RIP

[Daffynition]

I don’t disagree with your sentiments about her Jemian, however she has created a problem b/c now these bears that she has loved have become dependent on humans, not fearful of them. So her neighbors are going to have to deal with dangerous critters coming close for handouts. That’s the rub. ;)

[scoobysnak71]

Problem is, most of those bears now will need to be killed. You cant have dangerous wild animals running around with no fear of humans, and in the same instance, associating humans with food. She was a typical, stupid liberal.

[PowderMonkey]

"She didn't have a chance in hell," said Connie Barnes, who lived with Munson for five years and never went outside after dark without a spotlight, her husband and his BB gun.

LOL! Bears have a word for people like this. "Lunch." Husband and his BB gun? I get it. The plan was to knee cap the old man with the BB gun and leave him as bear bait, while you run like hell. BB guns... attracting bears to your property with dog food...Who are these people!?

[KingLudd]

Oh, she fed the bears alright.

[Daffynition]

Bats will work too ... Louisville Sluggers .....BAWAHAHAHA!

[Daffynition]

[stockpirate]

Well one thing is for sure, she really got into feeding the bears.

[Big_Harry]

When I was a kid in the 50’s growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Mighgan, a hard drinking, 5 foot 6”, 300 pound pulp wood cutter decided to fight a bear of about the same size that was standing in his yard. He got the first overhand right into the bear’s nose, the bear stood on his hind legs, and , according to Sox’s wife, beat him with his paws like he was prize fighter. The bear never did try to bite old Sox, just beat him senseless and left him lying on the ground with one arm broken, a shoulder dislocated and a few teeth missing (although they might have been gone before the fight as I remember what most of those folks up there looked like back then).

[Grizzled Bear]

I get it. The plan was to knee cap the old man with the BB gun and leave him as bear bait, while you run like hell.

She'll put her eye out...

[bondjamesbond]

Bruins! We need BRUINS!!!

[Jemian]

You all three make excellent points. I am all in favor of her having lived her life among the animals WITHOUT training the animals to get food from humans.

[Doogle]

"get em Clyde"

[Daffynition]

I understand. I can confess that I am guilty too. I have, for years, fed the song birds ... and when I move, I wonder how they will adapt when I have spoiled them. Only diff is that they won’t attack and eat anyone .... or at least, I don’t think so! LOL

[Daffynition]

I like your story a lot!

Here's another family [I can't find the link now] of the Anderson family who have a grizz named Brutus .... this is not photoshopped. I can only surmise how this will end.

[Daffynition]

The link: Meet Brutus, the 800lb grizzly bear who likes to eat his meals at the dinner table

[Daffynition]

Regretfully, she didn't have a orange guard-cat!

[Daffynition]

[6SJ7]

The night before her death, Munson planned to feed an injured baby bear hard-boiled eggs and yogurt, another former tenant said. And she had planned to swat a large bear that was bothering the baby bear with a broom.

I'd hate to inform Munson (guess I can't since she became a bear Happy Meal), but bears will eat anything, including other baby bears, deer, elk, whatever. Bears are Nature's cutest hunter killer.