Posted on 10/15/2007 3:41:02 PM PDT by george76
A man awakened by a bump in the night went to investigate and found an intruder, but it wasn't a burglar. Instead, Blaine Harling found himself face to snout with a black bear that had come in through an open window.
Harling, 19, has been staying at the cabin belonging to his grandparents...
"He thought it was the blinds flopping in the window from a two feet wide, by five feet high, crank-out window that he had left open for ventilation," ...
The screened window was open just 18 inches, but that was enough for the adult black bear to slip through.
"He walked into the kitchen and it was just standing there, about three feet away, in front of the refrigerator," Harling said. "So he grabbed the first thing he could which was a shampoo bottle, or a lotion bottle, something like that, and he whipped it at the bear and then he took-off back down to basement."
Harling pushed a dresser in front of the door and called Alaska State Troopers, who contacted the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The teenager also called his grandparents. After he persuaded them he wasn't joking, they told him how to unlock their gun cabinet and he armed himself with a .44-caliber and a .45-caliber handgun,
What the family believes was the same bear appeared on their deck that night. This time, all entrance point to the house were secured.
They're keeping their firearms closer in case the bear returns.
"I wouldn't mind having some bear meat in the freezer," Jill Harling said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
One would assume that little Harlin wasn't raised in Alaska, but if he was, he's dumber than a coal bucket.
Yeah, you could drive a tractor trailer into my room, I might notice. It didn't take too long, 30 seconds or so. Probably a good thing I wasn't up. I would have killed it with my 12ga sabot slugs and triggered a bunch of NJ gun grabber paperwork.
One would assume that little Harlin wasn't raised in Alaska, but if he was, he's dumber than a coal bucket.
Oh geez he was just lookin for a pic-a-nic basket.
Bear country is everywhere...from Florida to California...Maine to Alaska...
We never open any windows because of the animal rights activists who have ended bear hunting seasons and historical hunting practices.
Everything, I mean, everything is now our fault...
looks like the work of a bear .
Did he return the next day ?
>>looks like the work of a bear .
Did he return the next day ?<<
No. Didn’t return. Definitely a bear. If you look at this picture: http://www.geocities.com/malbor2/fr/bear2.jpg and click the plus sign if it’s not displayed big...you can see the hairs that got caught in the screen frame.
Not a smart thing to say.
Today I returned from a visit with a man who lives near Gross Reservoir, up the mountain from the Domain of the Demented, A.K.A. Boulder, CO.
One of he things I managed to accomplish was obtaining a copy of the autopsy of a resident who was killed and eaten by a cougar some years ago.
Given the level of overt unreality shown by both the game department AgencyPersons and the NGO droolers, clearly nothing was learned by that unnecessary and totally preventable death.
The same chain of events that led to a student being mauled, killed, and eaten within sight of his high school is recurring as I type.
AgencyPersons are so defensive of their funding and their salaries that even when a cougar tried to jump through a window to grab the woman who sat in her living room in front of said window living there, nothing was done about killing the cats.
For those who have not seen what a bear can do to a human, google up “Kootoo Shaw, bear”; google images will have them on your screen quickly. WARNING: Make sure dinner has past the no return point - the images are very real. Not for kiddies before bedtime!
Injuries like these are acceptable to the game management chappies in agencies all too likely to be active in your state.
I will post the White Paper on predator management mismanagement soon.
In the meantime, EAT MO BEAR!
Just remember to cook it well, unless you like trichinosis.
PS Does anyone have a recipe for cougar? I am trying to track down how the Indians ate the ones Louis & Clarke said were on the diet of the indigenous.
Do you have a good recipe for bear or cougar ?
Weird.
So, what you're saying is that you have bars to bar the bears from breaking in.
When bear come around a second time, they are usually shot where I live in Alaska. They are pests that are attracked by dogfood, old fishracks come spring, and garbage left outside.
I knew a guy in Sutton that had a grizz with cubs kill his geese and then she stopped coming around. Then later that summer, he had a blk bear on his porch. He went shopping one saturday and came home to that blk bear inside his house and bear wouldn’t leave. He shot it inside a bedroom, man what a mess. He had a small stream in back yard and a few kings would run up it; why the bear were there in the first place.
Alot of people smoke bear meat but most the Indians around here don’t eat bear; they think it’s a very bad thing to do. They don’t even shoot bear if they keep moving when they stroll thru the village; only when they break into caches & fish shacks or when they keep hanging around the playground.
He became suspicious when he got home and saw their three beds had been disturbed.
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