by Dave Dinnell » Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:36 pm
MoapaPk wrote:Asteroid impact may be unthinkable, but I'm prepared for the event.
by Bob Sihler » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:17 pm
gwave47 wrote:Bob you're so tough, I aspire to be just like you. You forget one thing though, so you don't have to be scared to die. Being afraid in the back country and being prepared to defend yourself are two different things. You sound like the little kid in gym class who tells the bully "i'm not afraid of you", right before he gets his face punched in and his lunch money taken. Come on Bob, think harder before making ridiculous comments.
by Bob Sihler » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:23 pm
Buz Groshong wrote:Don't bet on it. Having a gun in the tent wouldn't have done much good for those sleeping campers and having a gun wouldn't have helped the victims of the DC snipers. "Sometimes things just have to die at the end of a cold piece of steel!" - that could just as easily be a drama queen like you.
by Bob Sihler » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:28 pm
BeDrinkable wrote:As far as death statistics, you can always check out Death in Yellowstone. If I remember correctly, more people have died from falls and from falling in the hot pools than Grizzly attacks. By quite a bit.
MoapaPk wrote:Each year, far more people die just driving to and from the Golden Gate Bridge, than from jumping off the bridge. So there.
by lowlands » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:57 pm
by simonov » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:49 pm
Dow Williams wrote:redneck wrote:The last California grizzly was killed almost 100 years ago. I confess it's hard to feel really sorry about that.
your moniker fits you well!
Day Hiker wrote:Out of the hundreds of people stopped, I wondered if just one person would be dumb enough to get out of the car and approach a mother grizzly with cubs. Alas, no.
by MoapaPk » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:08 pm
lowlands wrote:Bummer. But, I don't see the sense in killing the bear. I don't support the idea that we need to crop and groom the backcountry to make it safer, it's the backcountry, leave it as it is.
by SoCalHiker » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:11 pm
redneck wrote:...than California's misguided hunters of century ago.
by simonov » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:12 pm
SoCalHiker wrote:redneck wrote:...than California's misguided hunters of century ago.
... these are the times you surely miss ...
by b. » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:23 pm
by Augie Medina » Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:24 pm
by Alpinist » Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:18 pm
MoapaPk wrote:lowlands wrote:Bummer. But, I don't see the sense in killing the bear. I don't support the idea that we need to crop and groom the backcountry to make it safer, it's the backcountry, leave it as it is.
OK, I'll switch to mildly serious mode.
The theory is that this bear has lost her fear of people, and has found that people can be prey as well as indirect sources of food. The corollary is that the cubs have been taught this aspect of hunting by her.
I'm guessing it isn't practical to do a controlled study to test the theory. Maybe it was just a mentally unbalanced bear-- though I honestly don't know how one would judge, or whether therapy could help her deal with her aggression.
by chugach mtn boy » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:43 pm
b. wrote: I don't like it, it really sucks, but these bears will be killed, and should be killed to preserve the rest of them. If bears like this were allowed to keep disrupting the peace, they would all be eradicated as a matter of general peacekeeping.
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