A
week ago, we posted on a black bear that crashed a toddler’s birthday party in suburban Orlando.
This week, there is a news story out of Orlando about a woman who was walking her dog when a black bear attacked her. The dog was unhurt. Sounds like the dog didn’t
put up a fight and was some sort of lap dog unfit for Florida.
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| Not cuddly: a mauling machine |
We'll will now admit that our prior mocking of Steven Colbert’s warning about bears
may have to be tempered. At
the time, we called it pretentious and said it was a problem affecting areas
like Vail and Aspen. We focused on the more
proletarian, and widespread scourge of teeming herds of feral hogs (drunken and
apparently sober). We will now have to
temper our mocking. Bears are a scourge
for the wealthy residents of Vail and Aspen, and for residents of Florida. Floridians beware.
The
Orlando Sentinel not only reports that this particular woman was mauled viciously
by a bear that wandered out of a wildlife protection area, but goes through a
long history of bears wandering out of the same area into Orlando and attacking
people as they walk their dogs. Bears
are not considered threatened in Florida.
But they still can’t be hunted, so they have apparently lost their
appreciation for the danger of Floridians, who when they see a bear in a group,
take cell phone pictures of the bear and wait for wildlife officers to shoot it
with a tranquilizer.
In
the article, the Sentinel goes over multiple maulings of people walking dogs, who
were unhurt. Seems like people in
Orlando’s suburbs need bigger dogs or they need to bring back targeted bear
hunts to make sure that bears stay in their habitat and people stay in theirs
and no more bears crash toddler birthday parties.
Feral
hogs, unrepentant, will continue to search for beer.
Full story, Orlando Sentinel: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-bear-attack-longwood-20131202,0,3306746.story
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