BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....

Subject: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 09:09 PM

Well we have had drunken bears swilling cans of beer, how about this one. Nice to know that shouting 'Bad bear' does not work though.....

I initially misread 'bear spray' for beer spray...

Pie-gobbling bear crashes dinner party
Last Updated Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:57:55 EDT
VANCOUVER - A black bear cub raided a North Vancouver kitchen, gobbling a blackberry pie intended for a dinner party.

Lynn and James Hill were expecting their guests Sunday night, when the young bear apparently walked right into the couple's kitchen, attracted by the smell of the freshly baked pie.

Hill, who came upon the bear unawares, screamed "blue murder" at the cub, his wife told Vancouver newspaper, the Province.

Hill shouted: "Bad bear! Go away, bad bear!", but the animal was unfazed, she said.

Apparently the cub then came towards the couple, into the living room.

The Hills eventually managed to get rid of the raider using bear spray left over from their son's fieldwork in Alaska.

The cub, which weighed about 45 kilograms, ran out of the house. The Hills later realized it had also eaten a block of butter, including its foil, and chewed on more than a dozen apples, oranges, pears and avocados.

The couple moved the dinner party from their home to a restaurant, because of the strong, lingering odour from the spray.

"I don't think they [the dinner guests] believed our excuse," Lynne Hill said.

A provincial conservation officer said the bear would be put down if it repeated its stunt. A volunteer with the North Shore Black Bear Network said the cub was harmless, one of six orphans in the area probably looking for food because their natural foods had ripened early and were depleted.

Unlike grizzlies, black bears will abandon their cubs on occasion, Barbara Murray said. She estimated there were as many as 50 bears on the north shore in 2004.

Written by CBC News Online staff

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:25 AM

Aahhhh... poor bears.

I guess someone will be stumbling over a pile of ready wrapped bear poo somewhere then.

Why must they be put down, can they not be trapped and taken somewhere else?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:52 AM

The cub was probably starving because Goldilocks had eaten it's morning poridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:58 AM

Sorry folks but if your food gets stolen in that way you will just have to bear with it!!!!
Go on say it!!! enough of your grizzly jokes!
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:04 AM

Oh Georgian, you're just making a Spectacle of yourself.

I'm not going to panda to your depraved whims.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:07 AM

I'd like to tell you I have even better jokes bruin, but nothing kodiak for.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:08 AM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:10 AM

You should both be polarised.....

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: KateG
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:37 AM

Not an uncommon problem. I live in northwest New Jersey (USA), about 65 miles west of NYC. We have LOTS of bears. A year or two ago one broke into a neighbor's house and stole a package of english muffins, a box of water biscuits and a box of tea bags that were on the counter...obviously an Anglophile, planning a tea party. Unfortunately, its tastes were not exclusively aristocratic, because a few days later, folks from the Wildlife office were able to trap it using Dunkin Donuts as bait.

We had one napping in our barn regularly one summer. This was before locking dumpsters became mandatory. We live in a rural crossroads hamlet, between the general store/post office and the old stagecoach inn, and our barn is the former blacksmith's shop. A large male bear was having his breakfast in the the store dumpster on Taylor ham, bagels and eggs. He would then snooze during the heat of the day in the cool of our barn, and saunter forth in the evening for a supper of veal parmesan and tiramisu at the inn's dumpster. When I called the Wildlife folks to request that he be moved, I was asked if he had threatened us or our pets or done any damage. When I said, "not yet", I was told I was out of luck, because I lived in the area where they take "nuisance" bears.

And last week my dog and I cut short our hike because we saw three young bears playing in a tree ahead of us just off the trail. I could see the three cubs, but there was no sign of mama, and I didn't want to find myself between her and her precious darlings.

It always amazes me that we're plagued with bears here in New Jersey, but my in-laws who live in the Black Hills of South Dakota don't have any problems. Ah well, I think we have more coyotes than they do, and certainly more deer (overgrown rats).

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:41 AM

Perhaps the couple should have explained to the bear that Uncle Walter was already out dancing.

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: GUEST,winterbright
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:08 PM

KateG,
Ah, Taylor's ham... I'd forgotten about it. Used to LOVE it when I lived in PA. You don't find it here in Maine. (drool)

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:00 PM

I recently to an orchard to pick apples. When you get to the orchard, you have to go in the barn to get your buckets and find out which section of trees you can pick from on that day. So..we go into the barn and there was an 8x10 photograph of a mama bear and 5 cubs....all sitting nicely looking at the camera....taken very near that orchard!! A portrait photographer could not have posed them any nicer!

On a completely different note, we have a little log cabin vacation spot....very primative, no running water, just lots of trees and privacy. The latch on the door was handmade by a blacksmith and often it is difficult to latch. The people who owned the cabin beore us made it very clear that we were to make SURE the latch was closed all the way. It seems that one day they went to the cabin and walked in to find red footprints all over the cabin. They feared that someone had been killed and went looking about for someone who was injured, or worse. What they found was a container of cherry Kool-Aid Mix that a bear had come into the cabin and gotten into!!!!   It took a LONG time to get rid of those Kool-Aid stains and let me tell you...the door gets checked twice by all who visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:41 PM

"Why must they be put down, can they not be trapped and taken somewhere else?"

Bears are territorial. Dumping a stranger in another's food source is not appreciated. Bears will migrate to a new area - individuals often make their way back. The problem is not the bears, but the humans moving into their territory.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:20 PM

"Why must they be put down, can they not be trapped and taken somewhere else?"

Like Arnold, they come back.

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 06:45 AM

Well if it does have to be put down, at least bear meat is rather tasty from what I've heard say.

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:42 AM

Bear Paw Soup.

But I'm sure the Bear's Paw would object, wouldn't he?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Teddy Bears Picnic.....
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:50 AM

quite a few people would object to bare 'Spaw, I suspect.