Sadly they didn't build a heffalump trap...

Surely to fuck if they could shoot it dead they could get a clear shot to tranquillise the poor bugger.

I suppose being shot dead was a better way to go than seeing food and water but having no way to consume it, but still.

Yes, but the constitution doesn't mention the right to bear tranquillisers...

Ahahahahahahaha...no, that really was funny.

I wish someone would euthanise me right now. Do you think if I stuck a large plastic jar on my head and wandered onto the NJ Turnpike it would happen?

I suppose you can shoot an animal from anything up to two hundred yards away with a bullet, when you don't care about plate-sized exit wounds, but to get a tranquilizer dart to stick without harming the animal you need to be a lot closer.

Stories like this always remind me of that great "conservation" chestnut that's sure to upset any dinner party in deepest wildest Putney: would you put up with a bear/tiger/jaguar living in your back garden, or would you be straight on the phone to "the authorities" demanding they come and get rid of the fucking thing before it ate one of your kids?

This story really saddens me, even though lately I've been wigging out about bears after reading about the two guys in Russia who were eaten by bears that may stand 10 feet tall.

Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote:

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Stories like this always remind me of that great "conservation" chestnut that's sure to upset any dinner party in deepest wildest Putney: would you put up with a bear/tiger/jaguar living in your back garden, or would you be straight on the phone to "the authorities" demanding they come and get rid of the fucking thing before it ate one of your kids?

Why would that upset a dinner party in Putney?

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shot the animal after it wandered into a busy Minnesota town.

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Efforts to tranquilise the animal failed because the bear "stayed in forested areas", he said.

Yes. Busy towns are often thickly forested areas.

Or, you know, anywhere else?

Let the bears pay the bear tax.

I am currently in real-life Pooh land. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg, a regimental mascot from the city's Fort Garry Horse militia regiment. Instead of taking the mascot over into the trenches in WWI, they left him in London and donated him to the Regent Park zoo, where he was spotted by Milne and his son.

It's shit out here. Rainy and not at all summer-like. But one hell of a story from just outside of town - man slaughtered and decapitated on Greyhound bus last night. My brother went out to cover it at about 11PM last night - I'm morbidly anticipating his debrief.

Weren't "Teddy" Bears so named after Theodore Roosevelt, who once refused to shoot a bear cub?

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Antonio Gramsci wrote:But one hell of a story from just outside of town - man slaughtered and decapitated on Greyhound bus last night. My brother went out to cover it at about 11PM last night - I'm morbidly anticipating his debrief.

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"It was pretty traumatic," he said, adding that some passengers said they have been unable to sleep or eat since it happened.

Fuck me Canadian's really do have a gift for understatement don't they?

A guy stabs another passenger 50-60 times and then hacks off his head and "guts him up" and it's described by a witness as "pretty traumatic"!

I don't know if it was a cub - he chose not to shoot a bear that was tied to a tree because he thought it unsporting.

Edit: to Rogin.

More on that story.

It's created a bit of a kerfuffle in Minnesota.

Apparently, the cops on hand simply didn't have a tranq gun, so when they say they couldn't tranquilize it, I think they mean they couldn't get close enough to it to put a syringe in it because it would have run away into the woods.

ad hoc wrote:

Yes. Busy towns are often thickly forested areas.[/quote]

That's not all that uncomon, a lot of towns in N America are contiguous to black bear habitat, particularly with the growing popularity of "exurbs".