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Bear opts for pizza over education in Colorado Springs
The Gazette ^ | Sept 14, 2015 | Matt Steiner

Posted on 09/14/2015 6:40:03 PM PDT by MtnClimber

A bear cub wandered the streets of downtown Colorado Springs on Monday, before entering a local pizzeria and settling down for an afternoon nap.

The sighting and subsequent invasion into Louie's Pizza's prep room was one of several bear incidents to make headlines in 2015 and keep Colorado Parks & Wildlife officials springing into action.

Matt Robbins, a spokesman with Parks & Wildlife, didn't have statistics Monday for this year's bear sightings in the Pikes Peak region. He seemed a bit overwhelmed, however, when asked if occurrences are on the rise.

(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: bear; coloradosprings; food
It is that time of the year in the Colorado Rockies.
1 posted on 09/14/2015 6:40:03 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: george76

In case you want to do a Colorado ping. Good photo of bear in pizza kitchen at link.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 6:41:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For views of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I have Seen quite a few of ‘em this year up here moving about, a lot more than usual. Fun to watch them do what Bears do......from a distance of course!


3 posted on 09/14/2015 6:47:50 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: bobby.223

Colorado, where voters are better equipped the game biologist to deal with over population of bears.


4 posted on 09/14/2015 6:52:41 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: the_daug

Notice the bear has a paw on a big round of Mozzarella.


5 posted on 09/14/2015 6:55:07 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: bobby.223

What?

You didn’t get any selfies?


6 posted on 09/14/2015 6:59:02 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: MtnClimber

Word is that the college cafeteria was serving Michelle Obama’s “Healthy Choice” foods, which drove the bear to run to a pizza shop.


7 posted on 09/14/2015 7:09:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MtnClimber
... a whole hoard of Palmer High students had just left ...

I would have been more impressed if they had used "sloth" or "sleuth", or even "pack" instead of "hoard", to join in with the bear subject.

8 posted on 09/14/2015 7:09:13 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: MtnClimber

Where’s BooBoo? Yogi has to make up a carry out for his buddy.


9 posted on 09/14/2015 7:34:49 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
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To: MtnClimber; MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


10 posted on 09/14/2015 8:27:12 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.


11 posted on 09/15/2015 5:43:28 AM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: george76

Fortunately stupid voters modified the state constitution to ban the most effective method of hunting bears. The problem has been increasing ever since.


12 posted on 09/15/2015 6:32:41 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

The increase of the predator bear population has been massive since the flood of new , invading, city lefties from other states and Mexicans .


13 posted on 09/15/2015 7:00:53 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: SJackson

*Bear Bump* The Black Bear Hunt in northern Wisconsin this season has been good so far. Five bear in five days; unheard of!

Nice ones, too, from 409 pounds down to 170 pounds, dressed.


14 posted on 09/15/2015 10:36:32 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Pontiac

Ha! Yeah those Bear/Selfie folks are nuts!!!!!! When I am outside and I hear, or get that feeling, one of ‘em is near/around or there......and I turn around and see a MONSTER sizing my old bones up, it his away I go back inside and fast! I’m always well armed when working outside tho. Heck, I like Bears! They are just Bears being Bears up in the Mountains after all. They are on the move now, getting in big meals and searching for this winter’s place to snooze!


15 posted on 09/17/2015 3:44:39 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: SJackson

Better the “Freshman 15” than the immersion in commie-nism.


16 posted on 09/19/2015 12:02:59 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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