Posted on 07/23/2010 7:07:56 AM PDT by marktwain
A homeowner show a 70 lb bear after it tried to break into his house for the third time that day. Homeowners have the right to kill agressive animals, even bears. Homeowners in the area kill two or three bears each year.
This is a synopsis of the story. The link to the Vail paper is so full of digital noise that I cannot cut and paste it with this dialup connection.
(Excerpt) Read more at vaildaily.com ...
Keeping and bearing arms.
“show” should be “shot”.
70 pound?
Sounds more like a bear CUB to me.
My white Lab dog is 90 lb.
You could just kick the bear in the butt and scat him out the door.
Granted. But this bear/cub had a habit of coming into this home. Three times in one day. Should the owner keep scatting him away till the bear grew up? A large male may weigh up to 1,500 lbs.
Ver-r-r-r-ry Inter-r-r-r-r-resting!
And on the subject of BEARing arms, here is the link to a video/audio that I think is great. Hope y’all like it, too. In case this is not a “live” link when you view this, you can copy and paste it in your browser. I promise it is worth the trouble......IF you believe in firearms.
EDWARDS, Colorado — A Cordillera homeowner shot and killed an “aggressive” bear Saturday after it had repeatedly broken into the person’s home, wildlife officials said.
The bear entered the home twice Saturday and was chased off by the homeowner both times, said Randy Hampton, of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. When it returned a third time, the homeowner shot and killed it, Hampton said.
“We’ve determined it was a justified situation,” Hampton said. “If a homeowner is defending themselves and they feel threatened, they have every right to shoot and aggressive animal, bear or otherwise.”
The bear was 1-2 years old and weighed about 70 pounds, Hampton said.
The Division of Wildlife sees about two or three similar instance a year in which a homeowner kills an aggressive bear, Hampton said.
Edward Stoner can be reached at 970-748-2929 or estoner@vaildaily.com.
Local Indians claim bear only eat White people and I've seen them talk to them from time to time up close; they don't shoot them until they break into meat/fish caches.
I do have one Indian buddy who has a lake nx to his cabin. Reds (sockeye) spawn like bluegills along the shore and when they die; they litter the shoreline bringing in all the grizz for miles around. By the time snow is about to fly, all the salmon have been cleaned up. Then they look over my buddies cabin. Benny had a grizz crash through his front door at midnight; his German Shepard chased it off. Not something you would want happening everyday you know.
Bear hanging around a house are alway just shot in Alaska, common sense; something many in lower 48 seem to lack.
They will only show a picture if it was a polar bear.
Colo. bear toots horn, takes car on short joyride
Posted at: 07/23/2010 5:36 PM
By: | WHEC.com
(AP) LARKSPUR, Colo. - A Colorado teen said a bear got into his empty car, honked the horn and sent it rolling into a thicket with the bear inside. Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, during the joyride early Friday. He said the bear got into the car through an unlocked door and knocked the shifter into neutral, which sent it rolling backward 125 feet.
Story thinks the door slammed shut when the car jolted to a stop, trapping the bear inside.
Neighbors had called 911, and deputies freed the bear by opening the door with a rope from a distance.
Nobody was hurt, but Story said he needs a new car _ the bear shredded the interior.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Alaska cop uses Taser on black bear
Posted at: 07/23/2010 3:36 PM
By: | WHEC.com
(AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska police officer used his Taser to discourage a small black bear that had gotten into someone’s fish fryer. Lt. Dave Parker delivered a 30-second burst of 100,000 volts to scare away the bear from a house.
Parker told the Anchorage Daily News the bear flipped on its back, flailing its feet in the air, growling and crying until it rolled off the porch. Parker says it shook its head and then quickly bolted away.
Parker hopes the stun gun tactic will keep the bear out of further mischief.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Not a black bear. Not in CO.
Not in CO.
Do they weigh more? Less?
Less. In NM the last one that was popped near me didn’t top 300.
The biggest black bear I heard of was in PA and was close to 800, but that was a huntin’ story by my neighbor. ;)
A 400 lb boar is a BIG black bear. They go maybe twice that in Canada is some areas but not in the states.
1500 lb would be a BIG brown bear. Kodiak bears can get that big, grizzlies seldom do.
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Hillarious!
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