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15 April 2006

Bear Attack Kills Child This is so horrifying. They say it's only the second fatal attack in local history, which is true, but then the first one was only 6 years ago.[More:]I've never seen a bear, although I hike and a lot of my friends have encountered them here and there. Last spring or the spring before a bear around here killed a boy's dog - they had been hiking on trails I know well. Once when I was camping with a then boyfriend & three kids way up near Qualla Boundary we realized in the morning that at least one bear, possibly two, had been about 100 feet from our campsite that night, which was unnerving. The whole thing is so sad and I'm afraid there will be more of it - every day there are more bears and more people and less land.
When I first saw this on the news I said to myself "How....grizly." I then held my head in shame at an awful joke. Anyway, this is fucking awful. I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to be killed by bear mauling.
posted by puke & cry 15 April | 16:45
We've had a couple of bear visits in our area in the past few years. One actually wandered into my parents' neighbors' garage and was sedated and relocated. But I worry about it. All this horrible development is really pushing out the wildlife. I'm seeing things like foxes and pheasants on a regular basis that used to be rare. I'm sure the bears will be no different.
posted by jrossi4r 15 April | 19:07
(And if it's any consolation, p&c, the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was the Springfield Bear Tax.)
posted by jrossi4r 15 April | 19:09
These kind of attacks are rare as hell, there's often extenuating circumstances, and I hatehatehate the hysteria that follows.
posted by shane 16 April | 19:00
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