tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post7538280678604483723..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Smell that pic-a-nic basket, Boo-Boo!Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32070400259200757302010-07-02T17:40:51.381-04:002010-07-02T17:40:51.381-04:00The sad thing is that, should you have to kill a b...The sad thing is that, should you have to kill a bear to protect yourself, you probably wouldn't even be allowed to turn it into a proper rug.Laughingdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07788824586959334168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23814811860620803602010-07-01T18:11:32.045-04:002010-07-01T18:11:32.045-04:00I think the term is: "shoot, shovel, and shut...I think the term is: "shoot, shovel, and shut up".Willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-17767292304202532992010-07-01T14:27:08.230-04:002010-07-01T14:27:08.230-04:00Rich:
Shoot one anyway. You might save some child...Rich:<br /><br />Shoot one anyway. You might save some child from gettin et by a habituated bear.<br /><br />Learn to not talk to cops, and you'll stop getting in trouble for civilized and responsible behavior.Kristophrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370888276707569365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-37612207259404401262010-07-01T10:15:18.003-04:002010-07-01T10:15:18.003-04:00"These are rural areas but houses are within ...<i>"These are rural areas but houses are within a couple of hundred feet of each other..."</i><br /><br />Rich, A bit off-topic, but I hate to inform you, but if the houses are a couple of hundred yards apart---it ain't rural no more! Stretch that distance to a mile or more and you'd be getting closer.<br /><br />Just sayin'.Crucishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15441911110953212619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-83476087179426453602010-07-01T09:50:01.233-04:002010-07-01T09:50:01.233-04:00I have a friend in West Milford, NJ who just last ...I have a friend in West Milford, NJ who just last week had a brown bear on his deck looking in their window. It then ambled off. Another friend in the same general area was telling us about a nearby couple who came home and found a bear in their kitchen. It broke the window and climbed in.<br /><br />These are rural areas but houses are within a couple of hundred feet of each other and there is lots of traffic on the roads.<br />Last week we had a small bear in my town near our church. We are NOT rural in the least it is a small suburban area near Wayne, NJ. Shoot one and you have so much trouble it is crazy!Rich Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01810503852401263596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-73296855064936772042010-07-01T09:39:01.547-04:002010-07-01T09:39:01.547-04:00I was going to say it was a made up story, but the...I was going to say it was a made up story, but then realized it wasn't in the west, where they make up bear stories.<br /><br /> Like that guy Jerry Ruth did "out west". He even had good backup material for his made up bear story. Like a dead grizzly bear. And a long stay in the hospital. And 3 empty 41 shells in his gun.<br /><br /> It was in the west tho, so obviously was made up. Even tho you can google him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3663934574084490212010-07-01T08:06:19.390-04:002010-07-01T08:06:19.390-04:00We've had two sitings in the past year just so...We've had two sitings in the past year just south of Dayton.TallTimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14710949478689950651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-86540817856208852902010-06-30T23:38:28.279-04:002010-06-30T23:38:28.279-04:00I was always told by my grandfather that all you h...I was always told by my grandfather that all you had to do when being stalked/charged by a bear was to throw shit in his face....<br /><br />Whene I asked "where will I get the shit?" I was informed, "don't worry, it'll be there when you need it.B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-54366893837638272562010-06-30T22:44:27.170-04:002010-06-30T22:44:27.170-04:00Funny thing-- when Tam mentioned the 629 w/RR'...Funny thing-- when Tam mentioned the 629 w/RR's, I was thinking, "Yeah, but even an airweight Chief's Special with Buffalo Bore Heavy .38's would likely have been mightily appreciated." <br /><br />Or, if all you've got is a stick, make sure it's pointy, nomesayne?<br /><br />I can tell SB is joking, but I don't get the applicability, here, unless we're to assume that the victim here was a drunk who somehow lured the black bear? Antagonized the bear? The family was drunk and their story is supposed to be drunken maunderings? At any rate, I had gathered that the victim was a child. <br /><br />Jokes are much funnier when they don't have to be explained.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62135544765633969812010-06-30T22:40:28.970-04:002010-06-30T22:40:28.970-04:00We have bears and some mean people here in eastern...We have bears and some mean people here in eastern NC, so I will always opt for going armed in the woods. I ever encountered a bear, I would surely be tempted to try that tactic recently used by the guy in western NC who saw Bigfoot in his yard---he said "I rough-talked him". <br />NCDave, A Wannabe Rough-Talker to BearsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38596491918755179022010-06-30T22:35:27.532-04:002010-06-30T22:35:27.532-04:00Coyotes are a problem in suburbs of NYC.
http://w...Coyotes are a problem in suburbs of NYC. <br />http://www.macon.com/2010/06/30/1180679/ny-girl-attacked-by-coyote-in.html<br />Now if we could just get the bears and coyotes to cruise the upper west side ...Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-64442785663821128522010-06-30T21:32:16.254-04:002010-06-30T21:32:16.254-04:00@ Joe in PNG: Reminds me of the scene in 'Lord...@ Joe in PNG: Reminds me of the scene in 'Lord of War', where Nicholas Cage is all coked up at 0-dark-thirty in Africa, and even the hyenas avoid him. Bears can't see very well, so I've read, but their sense of smell is keen. I'm betting they would need to be pretty desperate to go after something as foul-smelling as your average hippy :-DB Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11820065559822788663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-43695657828128938022010-06-30T21:24:20.392-04:002010-06-30T21:24:20.392-04:00Surprised Rusty P Bucket hasn't visited to yel...Surprised Rusty P Bucket hasn't visited to yell "B'ars won't bother ye! THey only git mean when ye's thretenin' em!!"oghttp://www.neanderpundit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-37634388457207449412010-06-30T20:35:21.441-04:002010-06-30T20:35:21.441-04:00A year or two ago I read an account of a guy who w...A year or two ago I read an account of a guy who was walking nude through some of our northern grasslands/forests and encountered a griz. He was "armed" with a mighty .38 revolver. When they found the guy, all of the rounds had been fired, and the bear had eaten his thigh meat. <br /><br />So in addition to knowing that a .38 is wholly inadequate for griz (duh!) we also know that it is unwise to be nude in the wilderness and that griz prefers thighs. Just like me at KFC. <br /><br />cap'n chumbucketAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-60347918484735665832010-06-30T20:26:05.981-04:002010-06-30T20:26:05.981-04:00Hey, it works for porcupines and electric eels.Hey, it works for porcupines and electric eels.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-39268142840562582312010-06-30T20:19:51.413-04:002010-06-30T20:19:51.413-04:00Justthisguy,
"I would like the black bears t...Justthisguy,<br /><br />"<i>I would like the black bears to get to the point that when they see or smell a human, they automatically think "OMG, humans! Shock! Pain! Run away!" </i>"<br /><br /><br />"Don't taze me, Ranger Smith!"<br />:DTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-73957414569716992982010-06-30T20:02:54.437-04:002010-06-30T20:02:54.437-04:00We've had some black bears found in the expens...We've had some black bears found in the expensive districts of this quite urban and rather hoity-toity South FL county where I live. I'd rather not kill 'em, I'd rather terrify them so that they run when they see or smell a human. Someone proposed shooting them with shot of a size somewhere between that of birdshot and buckshot. He claimed it worked, due to the combination of loud noise, blinding flash, and ouchy stinging pain. <br /><br />I would like the black bears to get to the point that when they see or smell a human, they automatically think "OMG, humans! Shock! Pain! Run away!" <br /><br />I think that if such were the case we could save the lives of both bears and humans.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27800382819442681652010-06-30T19:34:29.455-04:002010-06-30T19:34:29.455-04:00Joe in PNG has the winner, IMO. Fix the bear and ...Joe in PNG has the winner, IMO. Fix the bear and hippie problems as two-fer. <br /><br />Ever consider a run for President?SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63434499678139393292010-06-30T18:31:52.086-04:002010-06-30T18:31:52.086-04:00Actually, I'd wager dropping a spastic headles...Actually, I'd wager dropping a spastic headless chicken into the fray would work well, what with easy meals always being appreciated (as apparent by this bear's behavior). However, it'd be a bear to conceal.OAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-60252365365340421462010-06-30T18:23:31.647-04:002010-06-30T18:23:31.647-04:00Black bears evolved on the North American continen...Black bears evolved on the North American continent as the bitch on a ladder of much bigger, meaner predators. They are mostly vegetarians and much more inclined to avoid than face down other critters that their programming tells them are highly likely to be able to kick them across the forest and back again. <br /><br />American Grizzly bears are nativized immigrants from the old world, a subspecies of the Russian/European brown bear that wandered over the Bering bridge along with gray wolves and humans. They evolved as top predators and their own instincts tell <i>them</i> they can beat the piss out of just about anything that crosses them. Grizzly bears (and Alaskan browns, same deal, just a larger subspecies) are much, much more dangerous to humans.<br /><br />That said, a habituated carnivore is a habituated carnivore, and even a meek little black bear that learns through enough experience it really DOESN'T have anything to fear from pink primates can get very dangerous indeed.LabRathttp://www.atomicnerds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31831505634173329792010-06-30T18:07:13.683-04:002010-06-30T18:07:13.683-04:00Violence never solved anything. Just give the bea...Violence never solved anything. Just give the bear what it wants. Nothing is worth fighting over. Those people had no right to start a rock throwing fight, and carrying guns will merely provoke the bears, escalating the situation. -- LyleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53257719791235025012010-06-30T18:00:17.554-04:002010-06-30T18:00:17.554-04:00Tam,
Are you crazy? A gun really? If you carry ...Tam,<br /> Are you crazy? A gun really? If you carry a gun the bears will just use it against you. Everyone knows the best way to deter a bear attack is to make you self disgusting to the assailant. Throw up or defecate on yourself. If the bear persists don't resist, he will likely fill up on superfluous ogans like your appendix and gallbladder and leave you alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-73346532421539609882010-06-30T17:43:47.269-04:002010-06-30T17:43:47.269-04:00Just got back from Yosemite NP in commiefornia. I...Just got back from Yosemite NP in commiefornia. I saw 4 black bears over the course of two days and three times they were just sitting around with people standing ~20' away taking pictures. (saw one by the side of the road hauling ass away from the road.) Thankfully I didn't come across any while hiking since I was legally disarmed. They break into cars cars and whatnot out there to eat stuff, they didn't mention attacks that much. <br /><br />I did see one guy with a bear bell. If I was a bear I'd eat him first on principle.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7588333863415919642010-06-30T17:38:34.469-04:002010-06-30T17:38:34.469-04:00I'll bet you people wouldn't be so upset i...I'll bet you people wouldn't be so upset if it had been a WHITE bear.<br /><br />Paul's right, at least they fought effectively for their friend, rather than just running or calling 911.<br /><br />Would that the victims at the next mass killing have the same outlook, but they won't.<br /><br />"There are only thirty of us, and all we have are heavy books and metal chairs! Kill me last!"staghoundshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976667812875074135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-25408579820732132992010-06-30T17:14:32.825-04:002010-06-30T17:14:32.825-04:00CZ-52. Don't know that I'd want to trust ...CZ-52. Don't know that I'd want to trust it vs. a Griz, but I think it would do a number on a black bear, or any two legged predators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com