"... than any people who may be inside, Ms. Bryant said. 'He just sits there and eats,' she said. 'He doesn’t attack them. He doesn’t growl. He doesn’t make rude faces.'"
February 21, 2022
"The residents are quick to point out that Hank is gentle and sweet. When he breaks into a home, he is far more interested in the food..."
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The bear is wild. He doesn’t have a name or a soul. He is not a creation of Disney. Kill the bear with a rifle before a human is injured or killed.
You want to see a rude face, allow the food to run out.
You’ll have more on your hands than a supply chain issue!
The community should get Hank a Noom account.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets eaten.
No rude faces and no mean tweets. The perfect blue state bear!
Nobody saw the sweetness in bears more clearly than did Tim Treadwell.
Fear eats the soul
He’s in my neighborhood if he heads over Spooner. We have other bears but so far they’ve only managed to mangle the lid of a refrigerator on the golf course. Management put down those electric mats, and there’s video of the bear stepping on them. It looks just like it does in the cartoons- bear completely off the ground, then a puff of contrails…
…now if we can do something about the mountain lions.
Nuisance bears are captured and released by the Pa Game Commission all the time. It is not a difficult endeavor. (May have been mentioned but the article is behind the paywall)
OTOH, the bears saw sweetness in Tim Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard.
1. Tranquilizer dart. 2. Truck. 3 Trip to parts unknown.
California used to know how to handle these things when I lived there 30 years ago.
Ummmmm......now let’s talk about food stamps, and EBT cards.
Apparently there are no available parts unknown.
12 gauge shotgun. Bear slug chambered. Alternate 00 buck shells with more slugs.
Bears are extremely intelligent, perpetually hungry, and damned strong. This one has only line left to cross and that’s killing someone.
he is far more interested in the food than any people who may be inside
People vs food is not a bright line to a bear. He has his preferences, of course...and his bad days.
I hope they can find an alternative to killing him.
The residents are quick to point out that Hank is gentle and sweet. When he breaks into a home, he is far more interested in the food
So the chance that Hank will eat you is only about 1 in 50. 1 in 20 tops! So no biggie.
Do the Darwin Awards include "Entire Community" as a category?
The bear should be acptured and relocated, if it returns it should be put down. Letting wild animals become used to and dependent on people will not end well.
We had an urban neighbor who moved on to our rural dirt road. Although warned, he thought it would be cool to feed the bears. (BTW, donuts are a bear favorite). He would toss the food around his burn pile about 100' from his house and watch from his porch. One day, after a short walk, he came home to find the bears waiting for him outside his house. Funny how the bears associated him and his house with food. He decided to extend his walk the opposite direction.
Biden’s economy is so bad, the woods are running bare.
This is a tough crowd.
Sounds like Hank is mostly peaceful.
This is a sign of the times. The bear needs to be shot. I would think any fool would understand this, but apparently our fools today are epic in their cluelessness.
Black bears are not brown bears. You people sure are insecure fraidy pants always reaching for the pacifier. My Dad worked summers on trail crews in Yellowstone. When we camped there, he would chase giant black bears out of our campsite yelling, waving his arms and advancing forward. Grizzly bears are the dangerous ones, are enshrined on the California Republic flag and don't live there anymore.
28 B&E charges, no jail time, no bail required, free to continue his depredations, where do these folk think they are, Portland?
Food and people are not mutually exclusive categories....This does help you keep a mouse infestation in perspective.
Wonder how many of them realize that Hank is overweight from eating too much human food, so they're going to end up killing him any way?
if community can train him into strict veggieism all will be good.
Howard being a fool. As usual. He forgets to read the part where this obese critter has lost its fear of humans.
Hank will continue to "mostly peaceful" until he decides not to be.
It seems like the word yet is missing from that article.
This is a bad problem waiting to happen. Bears are strong and will rip things up to get what they want. A few years back there were some problem bears in the Yosemite parking lot. One visiting family left some food in an open minivan. A bear or the bears found the food. Thereafter for a month or so bears would rip open locked minivans to get at food. The strange thing about it was that they only ripped open minivans with a single particular color--the same color as the original open minivan.
Down here in our Los Angeles foothill suburbs we have bears. They'll take a dip in a swimming pool or rummage around garbage looking for food. One bear cleaned out our neighbor's koi pond--a nice fish dinner. Another bear was a true ursine recividist. He found some Swedish meatballs in a trash can. Thereafter on his periodic raids, he was looking for meatballs--and only meatballs. He came down, was caught and relocated, at least a dozen times. He was given the name "Meatball" for his preferred cuisine. Finally the wildlife authorities gave up on trapping and relocating him. On his last foray they trapped him--and relocated him to an animal sanctuary 150 miles away. He now lives in a cage--but gets his meatballs on a regular basis.
"doesn't make rude faces" Hahaha
"I won't countenance this bear in my house. Always pulling a long face that one. Not like Hank."
New Biden pet!
We had a lot of (black) bears around town last summer. Late summer, there was a flood of them, fleeing from the fire that burned through north of us. But the really cute one was a youngster, who slept outside my partner’s window for a week or two. We have fairly well defined bear rules in effect, that work pretty well, enforced by the Justice of the Peace, who used to be a game warden (and teaches gun classes). A lot of his work back then involved relocating problem bears - they would be darted and relocated a couple times, then darted and euthanized if they didn’t get the message. His two boys became adept at “bear tipping”, which is climbing trees to tip bears out of them, if a darted bear didn’t fall out on his own. Here are the rules:
- don’t throw out any high energy or high protein scraps. Deer will beat the bears to the lower energy plant refuse. Throw it out in the morning though, if you can. (This latter, because my partner absolutely insists on feeding the deer).
- trash stays in the garage or a bear proof trash container until trash day, or just take it to the transfer site (where it is compacted and shipped to Missoula). This is why my partner lets me keep my pickup.
- don’t shoot a bear at a distance, unless you have a bear tag. Up close and personal, with a handgun, then fine, if you can plausibly claim self defense. If I have to go in front of our JP for having shot a bear, I would rather have done it with my 10 mm G20, than my .300 Win Mag.
- black bears in the neighborhood is a non event, until, and unless they start causing trouble. Then you call the sheriff or game wardens, and have them relocated. Or, if this one won’t get the message, they may have to euthanize it. Their decision, not yours. Don’t tempt it, but don’t kill it out of hand either.
- if you have had brown (grizzly) bears around anywhere close (been in our county for over a decade now), learn to tell them apart, instantly. Color doesn’t matter overly much (that youngster was a brown black bear) - look at the head and for the hump. Claws (and tracks) as well as scat are also distinctive, but not as useful for immediate identification. You don’t want to screw around with brown bears, because they are convinced that they are the apex predator in the area. That means that they will kill and eat anything smaller than they, if it ambles by, and they are hungry. That means black bears, mountain lions, even their own sometimes. And of course us. They don’t scare very well, and the authorities take your killing them very seriously. So call them, and have them deal with any brown bears.
That is a wild animal and its reactions are unpredictable. These people are acting very foolisy.
Howard said...
Black bears are not brown bears. You people sure are insecure fraidy pants always reaching for the pacifier. My Dad worked summers on trail crews in Yellowstone. When we camped there, he would chase giant black bears out of our campsite yelling, waving his arms and advancing forward. Grizzly bears are the dangerous ones, are enshrined on the California Republic flag and don't live there anymore.
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Sure. No biggie. It's all good.
This Indian kid would have liked to speak with you, had he survived.
https://news.yahoo.com/jersey-man-attacked-killed-black-bear-police-134940693.html
"A man hiking in a heavily wooded area of northern New Jersey was killed by a black bear during the weekend, police said on Monday, in what experts called an extremely rare attack."
“If community can train him into strict veggieism all will be good.”
Not going to work. Bears are opportunistic omnivores. Protein density is too low to sustain them over the winter for most plant material.
There is just so much crime everywhere these days. Where are the bear police?
1. Please someone make a picture of Hank the Tank sitting in front of a group of masked schoolchildren.
2. I watched a report on Hank on a local TV station. They interviewed multiple people and they were all very, very anti-Hank and made it clear they were afraid of the bear and wanted it killed or removed. There was little sympathy for the animal as expressed by Ms Bryant in the Times story.
3. Like the fish, an everyday Times reader doesn't know that she is wet - even if she thinks she does.
I hope they paid their bear tax.
Freeman Hunt said...
"doesn't make rude faces" Hahaha
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Putin/Russians are softening up Californicators
Bruce Hayden said...
“If community can train him into strict veggieism all will be good.”
Not going to work. Bears are opportunistic omnivores. Protein density is too low to sustain them over the winter for most plant material.
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do CA bears hibernate if they can forage perennially?
or is fat-storage for winter genetic behavior?
Hank isn't "gentle." He isn't "sweet." He has no capacity to be "rude." Hank isn't even "Hank." He is a bear, an omnivorous top predator who has found a low risk source of food. Like every other bear species, he is a ruthless hunter and... an opportunistic cannibal. Bears love to eat bears, especially bear cubs. So, by any human criteria, the bear isn't even very "nice." But, he doesn't have to be nice. He is a bear. Wait until someone's Ring doorbell catches "Hank" tearing apart a spaniel. My guess would be that will signal lights out for our boy Hank.
Hank isn't "gentle." He isn't "sweet." He has no capacity to be "rude." Hank isn't even "Hank." He is a bear, an omnivorous top predator who has found a low risk source of food. Like every other bear species, he is a ruthless hunter and... an opportunistic cannibal. Bears love to eat bears, especially bear cubs. So, by any human criteria, the bear isn't even very "nice." But, he doesn't have to be nice. He is a bear. Wait until someone's Ring doorbell catches "Hank" tearing apart a spaniel. My guess would be that will signal lights out for our boy Hank.
As usual, Howard doesn't know squat. Black bear attacks ARE much less common than grizzly attacks, BUT when a black bear does attack it is much more likely to try to eat you. Experts advise that you play dead when a grizzly attacks and fight back when a black bear attacks.
Do bears eat other bear cubs?
Indeed, mother bears, felines, canids, primates, and many species of rodents—from rats to prairie dogs—have all been seen killing and eating their young. … A mother bear—or lion or wild dog—does the same if she can’t nurse her cubs or find food for them.
I did not know that.
The general public doesn't know it either.
What is a Momma Bear?
Momma Bear (noun) 1. one of the most protective animals in all of nature, known for providing and caring for her cubs 2. A parent fiercely devoted to protecting her children. "Woe be to one who provokes the wrath of the mother bear from protecting her young." 3. known as one of the most powerful forces in nature "Never, ever, ever cross a Momma Bear" (verb) 1. taking action to protect children. "I'm gonna Momma Bear that politician for selling my children's education."
It makes me wonder about the mom down the street that they called "Momma Bear."
Too much Disney! You see videos now of all kinds of animals being kept as pets. When they named that bear, they effectively killed him.
Paintballs, Tasers, sirens. Great.
Do the homeowners get compensation from the town for the failure of the police and/or animal control to do their job?
If I were a homeowner and my house with kids in it was broken into by a 500lb bear that the government didn't care enough to either tranquilize or shoot, could I shoot it myself? (Rhetorical question).
"He doesn't make rude faces" may well be someone's epitaph.
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