[Larebil]

How ‘bout stay out of Bear country?

Like people who swim in waters patroled by sharks then whine when they get bit.

I never understood camping and hiking deep in the woods.

Let’s see Las Vegas or a forest , hmmmm.....

Let’s see, beautiful beaches of barbados or a forest, hmm...

[george76]

Bear Kills 93 Year-Old New Mexico Woman

By Joe Garner
Scripps Howard News Service
August 21, 2001

The 100-pound elderly woman didn’t have a chance against a 275-pound bear in the kitchen of her home...

A 93-year-old New Mexico woman was mauled to death by a black bear that broke into her home over the weekend, stunned wildlife officials have confirmed.

Adelia Maestas Trujillo of Cleveland, in north-central New Mexico, was killed “by multiple bite injuries,” said Scott Wilson, associate director of the Office of Medical Investigator.…

[absolootezer0]

some of us prefer a forrest.

altho some of us are also smart enough to carry a big gun :)

[george76]

Bear Mauls and Kills Infant in New York State

Associated Press
August 19, 2002

A bear killed an infant Monday afternoon as it tried to drag the girl into the woods, officials said. The baby, Ester Schwimmer of Brooklyn, was snatched out of her stroller by the bear at the bungalow colony, police said. Fallsburg is about 70 miles northwest of New York City.

Isaac Abraham, a community leader from Williamsburg in Brooklyn, said witnesses told him the 5-month-old girl was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital upon arrival.

The baby was in a stroller in front of the porch with members of her family, said Mike Fraser, a state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman.

The bear grabbed the stroller and the child, Fraser said. The child was knocked out of the stroller and the bear tried to drag her into the woods...

[mtbopfuyn]

How ‘bout stay out of Bear country? Like people who swim in waters patroled by sharks then whine when they get bit. I never understood camping and hiking deep in the woods.

Agreed. I never understood P&W sending in park visitors without allowing them any means of protection. Oh, pardon me, they are allowed a whistle.

[Honor above all]

Las Vegas? Are you kidding? There is nothing that compares to being deep in the wilderness. Nothing. That said, leaving bait piles, I’m sorry, small children, in tents alone is foolish. I enjoy exploring the deep dark woods but ALWAYS carry a large caliber firearm.

[driftdiver]

“Like people who swim in waters patroled by sharks then whine when they get bit.”

More people die from falling coconuts than shark bites.

“I never understood camping and hiking deep in the woods.”

Have you tried it?

“Let’s see Las Vegas or a forest , hmmmm...”

A forest easy.

“Let’s see, beautiful beaches of barbados or a forest, hmm...”

Or both but beware the coconuts on the beach.

[Don W]

I’ll take the forest any day, FRiend.

I can say the same thing about your listed choices for recreation.

Let’s see, a concrete jungle jammed with thousands of people, automobiles and neon lights; with mobsters, whores and hustlers trying to pull everything they can out of your wallet with no regard to how hard you worked to fill that wallet, or (scenario 2)

a sandy beach at 95 degrees, blazing sun, dozens of folks splashing and shouting at each other, broken glass in the sand and hepatitus in the drinks and some cabana boy trying to seduce your 15 year old daughter:

OR: a lakeshore with a tent pitched in a shady cool glade, or with a river burbling calmly 30 feet away, with nobody around but my friends and family.

Surrounded by strangers, or with a select group of known folks. Looks like a simple choice to me. Then again, I’ve always preferred being outdoors to being cooped up in some concrete cave.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Let’s see Las Vegas or a forest , hmmmm.....”

You are joking I assume.

Las Vegas would be almost the last place in the US that I would want to have to spend time in.
It would be tied with a 2 day flight delay sleeping on the floor of O’Hare airport.

Yes I could spend a lot of time in a forest, assuming I had a good food supply.
There is nothing better than being outside and away from most people.

[Camel Joe]

“How ‘bout stay out of Bear country?”

There is no such place! Black bears are scavengers and will travel anywhere. Oh and by the way, don’t play dead for a black bear, as a scavenger they will eat “trail” kill. Play dead and you get invited to dinner as the main course. A better idea would be to arm oneself and face the legal ramifications.

[ctdonath2]

Let’s see Las Vegas or a forest , hmmmm.....

FOREST! Been to Vegas. Ugh. Ok, so it was amusing walking 4 miles down The Strip, but verdict is it's little more than a series of non-sequitors acting as a veneer on a dirty & demoralizing little anomaly in the middle of the desert. Gazing wistfully into the distance, I found the desert far more interesting.

Let’s see, beautiful beaches of barbados or a forest, hmm...

If there's anyone within 100 yards of my family, I'll take the forest.

Some of us DO understand camping and hiking deep in the woods (or desert, or any other rank wilderness). The reality of nature is far more interesting than a continuing series of "how can we get in your wallet" supported by a deteriorating concrete infrastructure.

[Dick Vomer]

How ‘bout stay out of Bear country?

Like people who swim in waters patroled by sharks then whine when they get bit.

I never understood camping and hiking deep in the woods.

Let’s see Las Vegas or a forest , hmmmm.....

Let’s see, beautiful beaches of barbados or a forest, hmm...

gee you sound like some pathetic yankee that doesn't know the beauty of the outdoors. Camping, hiking and just being outside beats drunks, coked up whores, fat wannabe celebrities, gamblers and the parasites that are attracted by Vegas.

The kid was outside and enjoying life and a predator came along and killed him. That's sad, but what's really sad is that he wasn't protected by those camping with him. Probably no weapon or even CS spray was around. I've always got fishing line with snap-caps, glow sticks or

Then it's up to us to kill anything that shouldn't be in the campsite. I feel sorry for the parents of the kid. Bears are so fast and strong the kid didn't have a chance. I doubt I'd have much of a chance if I was racked out in my tent and something tore it open like a bag of chips.

[GladesGuru]

“How ‘bout stay out of Bear country?”

Thanks to collectivist thinking of the socialists, 50% of America is planned to be “sent back to the Pleistocene” - read the Wildlands Project.

Bears, cougar, wolves, ad nauseam - all are going to be allowed to eat humans who have been stripped of their Unalienable Right to be armed.

Hence my tag line, “In a society predicated upon principles, it is essential to examine principle, for some principles are antithetical to Liberty.”

Worry about reduction of, or actual extinction of, your Unalienable Rights which the Founding Documents once guaranteed to you.

Beasts are not in danger of extinction, but the Constitution is.