Posted on 08/11/2009 8:37:48 AM PDT by null and void
The lady was a fool, and she was endangering others by training bears to look for food at people's houses.
There's no shortage of evidence for this.... "Feeding the bears" is a big problem in places where people and nature come together, and that includes places like Ouray.
Your wild he-man chest thumping aside, you appear to be as big a fool as this dead lady.
I read someplace that Lewis & Clark carried "state of the art" Air Rifles.
I read another account a while back of a journalist who went up to Alaska to write a story about life up there.
He ended up walking back to town, and came across two dirt poor looking urchins who were playing with some cans they had put rocks in, kicking them up the trail, playing catch back and forth with them, throwing them as high as they could in the air and catching them.
The journalist was really impressed by this, and told the kids that down where he lives, kids have more money and spend their days playing video games and such, but up here, even though they didn’t have money, they found the humble means to have a good time with no money, even if it mean making toys out of cans and rocks, and he thought that was special.
The two kids looked at him as if he were an idiot, and one of them said “What do you mean? These are our “bear cans” to make noise so we don’t surprise the bears. My mom and dad would give me a whipping if I didn’t have it! Where’s yours? Don’t you have one?”
The guy said no...then asked if he could borrow one of theirs, and the kids both said “No way!”
Hehehe...I love that!
I think I'd have to vote for 'suicide'.
If it were Oregon, you would have to credit the bear with an "assist"...
Question is... Can the bear bill Medicare?
I think I’ve seen that painting too.
Yeah, there was a lot of soiled buckskin around the campfire that night, I’m betting.
I’d love to have seen a pre westward expansion grizzly, before all of the real “trophy” animals were killed off.(from a distance and with binoculars of course.)
A broomhandle might be OK, but I’d prefer more than 9mm parabellum.
LOL!
I wouldn’t have admitted that if I were the journalist.
“...and mama bear just ain’t reasonable.”
In this case the carnivirous bear was a male. Don’t know if related to smaller bear.
...she really munsoned that one.
I read and my comments are still the same.
Ouray county ——As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 3,742 people, 1,576 households, and 1,123 families residing in the county. The population density was 7 people per square mile
Bwahahahahaha
Before Disney most people understood the difference between animals and humans;I wonder if Disney was aware of the damage he was doing?
“Hold my strawberry daiquiri.”
I think you forgot the sarcasm alert.
Lewis had an air rifle. They used it often to dazzle the Indians. From a website...
“Lewis’s air gun was a remarkable property of the expedition. Widespread agreement is that it was a Girandoni-style air rifle, originally designed and built in Europe for the Austrian army. The Girandoni was .46 caliber, had a magazine for 20 shots, and was a repeater. Lewis used it to impress Indians in council. It was smokeless, and could fire 20 shots in one minute. The Indians were impressed. The air gun was the most unusual piece of equipment on the expedition. Air guns of that period and caliber are not silent and make a very loud crack.”
Is that a strawberry daiquiri, Dick?
No, it’s a hickory daiquiri, Doc...
Except she got both bears killed. That is the shame.
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