Iamsemisweet -> RE: Bear Attacks Man on Roadside (8/12/2011 7:41:14 AM)
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True, but bears that have lost all fear of humans are dangerous as adults, and are more likely to come into contact with people. quote:
ORIGINAL: Edwynn Bears that are not used to humans can still attack them and have to be shot too. But I am not far apart from you in thinking that what is intended to be wild should remain that way. Some idiot from Illinois brought his family to the NC mountains for vacation a few years back, and happened upon a yearling black bear running down a fawn deer and preparing it for dinner. This guy picked up a stick and beat the young bear off and drove it away, to 'save' the fawn. Many witnesses saw the event and reported it. The guy got a ticket from the Rangers for interfering with nature, just as they do for taking plants out of the forest, and he was incensed but everybody came down on the side of the Rangers, as they should have. That young bear could likely have starved in the next 2 weeks, hard as it is for such a youngster to catch prey. The fawn died anyway, but this idiot felt himself to be a hero and martyr, nonetheless.
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