A black bear mauled a Florida woman outside her home near Orlando Saturday evening. During the subsequent investigation in Seminole County, Fla., officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have shot one bear and euthanized five others, the agency announced in various press releases.
Forty-five-year-old Terri Frana was sitting on the back porch of her home around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when her two youngest children asked to visit the neighbors. Shortly after the kids departed on bikes two bears scurried from behind the house toward the street. Frana followed them and discovered five bears on the driveway, rummaging through trash they had dragged from the open garage, according to her husband. Although Frana proceeded down the driveway to look for her children, she didn’t make it far. One black bear charged and knocked Frana to the ground as she turned to flee. Frana curled into a ball and played dead, but the bear continued to maul her.
“The bear actually had my wife’s head in its mouth and started to drag her towards the woods,” Frank Frana told WFTV.
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I am confused? I though bears and wolves were just happy forrest creatures that never hurt anyone.
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They are actually WASP males from the South with buck teeth who are also illiterate, KKK members, love guns the Bible and kill babies in their spare time. They just put on bear costumes for concealment........
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DeleteAll hell broke loose here in Battle Creek a few years ago when a cop shot and killed a young black bear running through a city neighborhood. People wanted to know why not just shoot the bear with a dart to put it to sleep temporarily and then relocate into the wild. Next time it happened, that's what the cops did with great success. But is that just us suffering from the Bambi Syndrome? If a bear is dragging you off to a quiet place to eat you, then that bear has got to die without question. Should bears be treated as hostile forces whenever they enter into civilization - shoot to kill in all instances because they in fact are wild and not missing from a Disney movie?
Should bears be treated as hostile forces whenever they enter into civilization
DeleteGood question and not easily answered I don't think, well unless they are near me. :)
Amen!
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DeleteBrock, you just gave me the best laugh...THANKS!
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