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Post by kings6 on Oct 27, 2019 20:17:39 GMT -5
The 80+ year old man I ride mules with has a new addition hanging over the corral panel. It seems some lady thought it was a good idea to feed a black bear snacks and apples and she eventually got it to come up to her and eat out of her hand. That is all fine and good until the bear ended up biting 3 of her fingers off! Naturally the big bad bear now becomes a human created nuisance and has to be ran down and shot. Somehow the hide was given to Francis so he could hang it on the panel to get his mules used to the smell and look. I will try to get the rest of the story tomorrow and fill in some blanks I see.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Oct 27, 2019 20:42:59 GMT -5
I’ve always wondered why states that do not have the death penalty will issue such a thing for an animal that is only doing what comes natural, but not for a human that is doing something unnatural.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 22:03:57 GMT -5
Did she sing to the bear like Timothy Treadwell too?  |
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Post by kings6 on Oct 27, 2019 22:57:21 GMT -5
Found out that the bear was a problem bear from up the Santiam Canyon and it was taken by a Dept of Ag trapper who is friends with my ffl buddy. He called Wally to see if he wanted the bear so Wally and his grandson skinned it for the meat and gave Francis the hide. The trapper said the bear that took the ladies fingers off when she was hand feeding it fruit was earlier this fall down on the coast. She still gets the Darwin Award.
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Post by nicholst55 on Oct 27, 2019 23:56:46 GMT -5
Actually, since she's still alive (and in the gene pool), she only gets an honorable mention.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Oct 28, 2019 6:23:53 GMT -5
when we were up on the north shore of Lake Superior, they seem like they want to tame the wild life as well... a young Timber Wolf forced us to stop on the highway, at city limit, coming into town, as he leisurely walked across the road, eyeing us in our convertible... so these red foxes Mother & pups from our motel balcony ( pups were only out after dark, so we didn't get any pictures of them... but we sat out on the balcony for quite a while watching them play on the beach right below us )... kid in the distant picture was trying to hand feed an adult... ( he was laying down earlier & the fox actually took something from his hand... I thought "Stupid is, as stupid does"... train the animal to eat from your hand, then cry when it bites someone later  I told these ladies that there was a fox in the bushes at the edge of the beach ( we could see it from the balcony ) they stood still & it walked by this close to them  |
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Post by whitworth on Oct 28, 2019 7:25:06 GMT -5
Ignorance is curable, stupidity not so much...
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Post by 98redline on Oct 28, 2019 13:07:09 GMT -5
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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