Bear breaks in, sherrifs open up on it with ar-15 rifles.

[Dr.Rob]

Why didn't someone call Animal Control or DOW?

Now if the bear was snacking on her schnauzer in the living room I can see a need for deadly force... but the bear was OUTSIDE on the deck... 25 feet in the air... didn't it occur to anyone to SHUT THE DOOR?

Sounds like a stupid waste of a bear and ammunition and common sense.

 

[Bart Noir]

OK, Dr. Rob, I'll bite on that one.
Lady has her kitchen trashed and then is going to leave the bedroom to go see if it is still there, and shut the door (which the bear has proven it can open) upon seeing it 3 feet away out on the deck? Maybe Mrs. Rambo would do that.
Cops arrive on a "lady hysterical and sure she's going to die" call and will just stroll up the stairs, past the bear, and close the sliding door?
I think the officers were justified and did well.

Bart Noir

 

[carpettbaggerr]

opened fire after they walked up a narrow staircase to an elevated deck and saw the bear...come out of the house toward them. One officer fired a single round into the bear, which ran to the side of the deck and then turned and charged, Mezzetta said.

So they should have shut the door before the bear came out of the house? Trapping the bear in the house with the lady?

 

[CZ-100]

Hey BOO-BOO.... Let's go Steal us a Pic-a-nic Basket.

 

[Doc]

said the bear, about 18 months old, had caused problems before and had been caught and released in mountains above Cave Rock two months ago.

maybe if they had taken it FURTHER from peoples homes...like to CALIFORNIA!!
i am sure the mountain bikers will enjoy the bears almost as much as the
mountain lions

 

[Edmond]

I would've thrown my AR-15 down and wrestled that darn bear to the ground!

 

[BerettaNut92]

Colt or Bushmaster for bears?

Aimpoint or Eotech for bears?

16" or 20"?

 

[CGofMP]

"Guns in the home are much more likely to kill people in the home than defend against an attacker."

Why did this lady just not use the martial arts training prescribed by the Odonnel's and Million Mom Marchers of this world? I am sure qa well placed knife edge kick, a side heel thrust, or better yet a simple hand-chop to the bear's skull would have worked far far better than anything she could have done with say a rifle chambered in 457 magnum, with a Barrel length, 14 3/8 inches, stock cut off at the pistol grip, big loop lever, ghost ring sights, Laser Light mount attached and a Insight Technologies M6 laser/illuminator attached.

 

[MarkDido]

maybe if they had taken it FURTHER from peoples homes...like to CALIFORNIA!!
i am sure the mountain bikers will enjoy the bears almost as much as the
mountain lions

Don't you mean that the bears and mountain lions will enjoy the mountain bikers?

 

[El Tejon]

Ahh, to bears and pumas, the Eloi all taste like chicken.

Obviously the officers should have first posted a poll on THR to see what the correct thing to do was.

It's a critter--shoot it. I'm glad someone out there has the right idea.:banghead:

 

[tcsd1236]

Why didn't someone call Animal Control or DOW?

Whats animal control going to do other than put a rope around its head? Lots of good that will do.
En Con will shoot it just like the Deputies did.....

 

[TallPine]

Obviously, this is a racial issue ...

the cops only shot it because it was a BLACK bear.

 

[Missouri Mule]

How many rounds actually hit the bear and where at, after the first?

I will agree, in bear country I'd personally feel better armed with 12 ga magnum slugs or even OO buck.

 

[Luckyorwhat]

But surely some of you have to admit you like nature, even a little bit? Hey, I'm all for self-defence, but there is a limit... constructing situations which can only provoke conflicts, so that you can use self-defence is obviously not justified - in my opinion.

If you like nature, then you might as well respect it. If you don't like nature, then why the hell do you build a mansion in it? Comparing numbers, every bear is worth dozens of humans - and there is a critical mass required for breeding and so on.

I really would have expected hunters to be more in defence of wildLIFE. Ironic? No, hunters understand and appreciate nature more than most other people - in my experience.

Sorry, but I live near a town in Canada called Banff, and it's becoming a tourist hot-spot. You would not believe the crap you see people do, not just feeding bears, luring bears over with food to get good photographs... I'm pretty much scared ????less when I encounter a 10 foot tall moose, but not some people...

And in mountain-towns up here Bears are often seen around - they have special boxy garbage cans because of this. This nature stuff is very very fragile, and I don't want to sound like a raving nature maniac, but I just don't like the precedent being set. Housing developments sprawl further and further into the wilderness, right? This urban sprawl shows no signs of slowing, so one can simply calculate the rate and multiply by distance to see how long until there is no nature left. Not cool.