Close Encounter of the Furred kind....

[Netpackrat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVhrN2pI2X8

Looks like one of the Timothy Treadwell wannabes at the ADF&G got a little more from his "bear viewing" experience than he had been seeking. We pay this guy's salary.

[Netpackrat]

And here's something that took place a few miles from my home a couple days ago:

http://www.adn.com/2014/06/17/3521701/b ... 100/&ihp=1

Some idiots in the comments, but fewer than usual considering it is ADN. Multiple comments to the effect that bears in town is a relatively new phenomenon due to too many idiots around to implement SSS like it used to be done.

[Aesop]

So I'm assuming that when someone's kids gets eaten at soccer camp, ADN will helpfully point out that it was their own fault for being so tasty, and demand the immediate adoption of OC-flavored children's garments, and classes on understanding the bear's point of view for future victims.

The biologist whose sole defense was apparently saying "Heyheyhey!" to an animal the size of his car is a future Darwin Award finalist.
Hopefully in every sense, as in before he successfully mates and breeds offspring.

[Darrell]

Hey, let's bring back grizzlies everywhere:

Petition seeks return of grizzly bears to the West, including Colorado

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An environmental group called on federal wildlife managers Wednesday to update a decades-old recovery plan for grizzly bears to ensure the animal's return to the Grand Canyon and other areas of the West.

The Center for Biological Diversity, in a petition filed with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, accused the agency of using a fragmented approach as it tries to recover the threatened species. Efforts are currently focused on a fraction of the bear's historic range, but the petition identifies 110,000 square miles around the West that could provide suitable habitat.

Those areas include a forested region straddling the Arizona-New Mexico border, the Grand Canyon, the Sierra Nevada in California, and parts of Colorado and Utah.

Read more at http://gazette.com/petition-seeks-retur ... Z4kXAuC.99

[Netpackrat]

So I'm assuming that when someone's kids gets eaten at soccer camp, ADN will helpfully point out that it was their own fault for being so tasty, and demand the immediate adoption of OC-flavored children's garments, and classes on understanding the bear's point of view for future victims.

Pretty much. Or when a 14 year old girl is attacked during a bicycle race in a city park, and is nearly killed:

http://www.adn.com/2008/06/30/450061/be ... racer.html

The biologist whose sole defense was apparently saying "Heyheyhey!" to an animal the size of his car is a future Darwin Award finalist.
Hopefully in every sense, as in before he successfully mates and breeds offspring.

Did you notice the shotgun laying on the ground between him and the bear?

[Termite]

Yogi: "Hey Bobo, which one of the kids you got?"
Bobo: "The skinny black kid. He's kinda stringy and tough. Which one did you get?"
Yogi: "The little plump Inuit girl. She's well marbled and tender, but a little bland. Throw me the OC spray. The extra spice will improve the taste.

[SoupOrMan]

Yogi: "Hey Bobo, which one of the kids you got?"
Bobo: "The skinny black kid. He's kinda stringy and tough. Which one did you get?"
Yogi: "The little plump Inuit girl. She's well marbled and tender, but a little bland. Throw me the OC spray. The extra spice will improve the taste.

Booboo: "I don't think the ranger's gonna like this, Yogi."

Yogi: "Where do you think I found your bow tie? Now shut up and eat."

[slowpoke]

George Tullos has a brother?