Thread: Another silly bear

Occasionally we get some silly bear visitors to our city. I must admit I thought the photo of the tranquillised bear being carted away on a stretcher was pretty funny.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...t-tree-2551874

Bob

LOL!

Usually bears dont come into my town, but the COVID lock down has them wandering where they normally dont go, since they feel safer without humans around... so one has been sighted several times over the past couple of months not far from my house. We'll see if he gets moved out of here on a stretcher.

Weird seeing cops with tattoos, too... Most of the police forces here in Maryland make you cover them up if you have them. Nothing like seeing a cop with long sleeve shirts on during the middle of 90+ degree weather summers! I get why its a rule, but I feel bad for them on those hot days.

For myself long sleeve shirts are a safety thing and I work in a boiler room. They have saved me many times from burns. I also work in a hospital with about 2,000 women. I have never had a bad remark about the tattoo with bare breasts although I haven't shown it often. Not worth the complaint of 1 or 2 in the 2,000.

I have thought many times about getting another tattoo but now a days it has gotten so common that it has lost its appeal to me and I don't think that as many people pay attention or care.

It happens quite frequently in Florida.

https://www.ocala.com/article/20100604/News/604239799

No brown or grizzly bears here but lots of black bears. My sister in law has one that gets into garbage cans in her neighborhood.

Just the other side of town we get bears in peoples trash, vehicles and houses regularly. But on my side of town its just dear dumping in the yard. That and the raccoons. Seen a buch of Elk this morning in the city limits. Wildlife! Its not my thing but it here.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Just the other side of town we get bears in peoples trash, vehicles and houses regularly. But on my side of town its just dear dumping in the yard. That and the raccoons. Seen a buch of Elk this morning in the city limits. Wildlife! Its not my thing but it here.

But wildlife is just so delicious.

This happened when I lived in St John's. The bear was stuck on the cliff for so long that we had time to drive across town, watch the rescue attempt unfold, then stand a few meters away on the slipway to watch the vets check the bear out before its trip out of town.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

But wildlife is just so delicious.

Unless it comes from the grocery store i aint eating it. Just a city boy here.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Unless it comes from the grocery store i aint eating it. Just a city boy here.

Jerry-You live in maybe the most beautiful state in America. I know you know this from some of the pics you've posted from your routes. I love central air, electricity and all the creatures comforts as much as anybody, but if I lived in CO (which would be a dream for us-that or southwest Montana), I would have to sleep in the woods on occasion-I swear I'd be like John Denver!

That said, a former student of mine lost both feet to frostbite in an unexpected whiteout blizzard hiking on Pike's Peak near you, so it has its dangers. And this kid had hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, so he knew what he was about in the wild.

I guess if you live there you kind of get used to the grandeur?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Unless it comes from the grocery store i aint eating it. Just a city boy here.

My friend, you don't know what you're missing! Had I known that Tc loves Elk Steak I would have gotten a couple out of my freezer to fix for us while he was here. My oldest daughter bagged it with a black powder rifle.

Rocker and Bad Boy Ted Nugent is an avid hunter and when he was once accosted for killing 'those poor innocent animals' he relied--"Ya gotta kill it before you can grill it".