Posted on 09/26/2014 6:04:16 PM PDT by Coleus
— To Alexis Simms, a custodian at Augusta Elementary School, it was "just a cub, the cutest thing you had ever seen." But to animal control officers and the local police who had tracked it for more than an hour through the closely packed backyards of this Essex County town, it was an addled and frightened black bear that had reared up as if to charge.
Taking no chances, the police shot and killed the 218-pound bear about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. It was the second bear in five days to be killed after wandering into an urban area where a new state bear management policy allows the animals to be shot and killed. Wildlife officials said the Irvington bear was 1 or 2 years old.
New Jersey's most densely populated areas have been designated "bear management zones," where local authorities are being trained to tranquilize bears and move them to state-run wildlife areas. But if a bear creates a hazard, Department of Environmental Protection officials can order that it be killed, as happened on Wednesday, said Elaine Makatura, a department spokeswoman.
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No dog available to shoot?
I guess not. Maybe they thought it was a dog.
It’s no surprise, New Jersey is becoming so diverse, Indian food, Japanese food, Mexican food, ...
A 218 pound bear is not a cub and is not the cutest thing one can see.
Any bear can quickly do a large amount of damage to a person
“It’s no surprise, New Jersey is becoming so diverse, Indian food, Japanese food, Mexican food, ...
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That is quite humorous. :-)
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It tickles me when anti gun states have wildlife problems that hunters keep under control in gun friendly states.
I love Japanese food. Haven’t had Indian in a long time, and I no longer can have Mexican food. It’s a trigger for me. :(
A 218-pound bear is just a dangerous as the same sized “Teddy Bear” walking down the center of the road in Ferguson, Mo.
Bears...They’re cute but they kill.
Wild animals that don’t stay away from humans and instead endanger them or their animals need educated. Out in the sticks we provide free education with anything from 55 grain to 600 grain lead. Most all quietly pass the final exam.
I used to only educate the coyotes that happened upon the farm until they killed one of my cats. Now I offer free food at 300 yards to attract the slower learners.
Bears get the hound dogs unleashed for a quicker learning curve.
This story is eight years old.
It wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
That’s grounds for shootin’ right there.
Like baseball, every once in a while, I get a good piece of one.
I think that those liberal-elitist dogs of NJ put out fliers to the Bear community inviting them into their neighborhoods so that the police would have something else to shoot...
Just wondering, were these Black Bears armed, or unarmed?
I hope Holder is standing by the white courtesy phone...
I believe Irvington is a town, and with just over 50,000 people, the 30th largest municipality in NJ.
Any hungry bears mostly going to find soul food in Irvington, maybe an old perogi, but mostly just soul food.
Just saying.
Yes, BUT....it's not a cow town that is isolated. Irvington is next to Bloomfield, next to West/South Orange, next to Maplewood, next to Newark....well, you get the picture.
It's one big sprawling suburbia/city complex.
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