On 15 Aug 2005 12:28:00 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

Cyli wrote in
:


Gee, you're harsh on yourself. I'd only have thought careless. And
that only because I didn't think you'd properly taken care for
raccoons or 'possums. Since no one had informed you there was a camp
garbage bear. Maybe dingbat on the running part. But the bear
already had food and you guys are a tad bigger than a kid, so, as was
proven, were pretty safe.


So, aside from not setting up camp in a no camping area, and the fact that
nobody got hurt, how is this different than the stoners in the woods?


They neither touched nor were touched by the bear. Nobody pulled a
knife. They were able to give a coherent account of the incident
afterward. They didn't have to go to either a hospital or jail
afterward. They, unlike the kids, had had no warning of any problems
in the area (I figure illegal campsites are a warning in themselves.).
While they did run, they ran to a secure place (except in Yellowstone
and Yosemite and a few other overpopulated tourist places, cars and
trucks are pretty secure from bears). Nothing in they account
indicates that they did anything to enrage the bear.

They probably annoyed it in with the truck lights and the horn, but
garbage bears who have found garbage are pretty immune to such
irritations. Noise and light are actually recommended as ways to
chase away bears. I don't know why, because every report I've heard
where it was used had at most a 3% effect, temporary at that, once the
bear has smelled or intuited food nearby.

Cyli
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

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