Discussion: Police: Don't Chase Bears While Drunk And Wielding A Hatchet

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Discussion for article #236262

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Kinda short on details here. What happened?

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Welp, there go my plans for Saturday night…

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no one was available to handle media calls

The bear’s gone catatonic…

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Even if you didn’t know it was Massachusetts, you’d know it was a brown black bear rather than a grizzly, because the guy’s still alive.

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Aww…look at that cute bear. Honestly, if someone’s dumb enough to run around drunk chasing bears with a hatchet, they deserve to get what’s coming to them. I just came to this thread because of the photo. Dumb article with a bunch of empty calories though.

OK…done now. Catch y’all on the flip side.

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I’m pretty sure if it was in Massachusetts it would be a black bear. They’re common here in the Hudson Valley as well.

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Actually, I think the bear is kind of superfluous - it would be sufficient to say “don’t run around drunk and wielding a hatchet” whether or not a bear or any other kind of wildlife is involved. The bear just adds a little extra “WTF?!” to the story.

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Here, have some more bears.

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WuttaboutmahsecunumenmunRIGHTS???

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Noted. And you’re right. Grizzies are a “brown bear” subspecies. And none of them are species you’d like to meet. My duh.

Black bears, on the other hand . . . well, I’m not saying it’s safe to mess with them, but, well . . .

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Police in Massachusetts have some sage advice: Don’t go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a dull hatchet.

Well, duhh!

I can make it even easier than that: Don’t chase bears. Period, end of sentence.

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RUN BOO-BOO !! RUN!! That isn’t Mr. Ranger!!!

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I said awwww, as soon as I opened the article. Then I read it and though, well duh.

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How that bear got in my pajamas, I’ll never know.

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The only thing that can stop a bad drunk with a hatchet…is a good bear.

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Police: Don’t Chase Bears While Drunk And Wielding A Hatchet

Drunken hatchet-wielding bears should be left strictly on their own.

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Don’t be dissing the bear. I wouldn’t want to mess with that cat either.

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I’m gonna go ahead and file this one under “no shit, Sherlock.”

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Just a couple of days ago state wildlife officials in Connecticut hunted down and killed a black bear who had chased and scared the crap out of two different joggers on the same afternoon. Very unusual behavior for a black bear, usually they will just run away from humans unless the bear is cornered or is a mama bear with cubs and feeling threatened. This one was a male and apparently not cornered or anything like that. Now the part that kind of pisses me off is that they were jogging on a trail in a “wildlife refuge.” Not really much of a “refuge” if you’re gonna have people jog through there and then kill the “wildlife” for acting too “wild.” Also, the bear had not previously been tagged, so there’s no real guarantee that they actually killed the “right” bear. Really kind of sad, though I suppose the wildlife officials felt they had to do it, because if they didn’t and then someone else ended up actually getting mauled and/or killed there would have been hell to pay.

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