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If it had reached the city, they should have had a clear shot with the tranq gun. Instead they were just being trigger happy.
Bear with it's head stuck in a jar?
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If it had reached the city, they should have had a clear shot with the tranq gun. Instead they were just being trigger happy.
cause during the few minutes it takes for the tranq to work (assuming it stays in and doesn't get pulled out) the now very angry confused and hungry bear, may well decide to charge someone and use it's claws to rip their face off.
It still has claws and you can bet people actually trained in this situation, animal control vets etc, all decided this was the best course of action not just "oh well lets shoot it"
It still has claws and you can bet people actually trained in this situation, animal control vets etc, all decided this was the best course of action not just "oh well lets shoot it"
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lol @ guys saying "omg why didn't you tranquilse it?" "stupid trigger happy Americans...etc" "I could have darted it easily, stupid Americans"
You know basically NOTHING of the situtation you morons. You read a bit of text and think you know it all and the best course of action given the situation which isn't even described clearly and fully.
You know basically NOTHING of the situtation you morons. You read a bit of text and think you know it all and the best course of action given the situation which isn't even described clearly and fully.
I dont understand why they couldnt just tranquilize the bear.
All i can read about not being able to tranquilize the bear is this -
"Efforts to tranquilise the animal failed because the bear "stayed in forested areas", he said"
Im guessing they couldnt get a clear shot from all the trees etc....
They seemed to get a pretty clear shot when they fired a bullet at the poor thing
All i can read about not being able to tranquilize the bear is this -
"Efforts to tranquilise the animal failed because the bear "stayed in forested areas", he said"
Im guessing they couldnt get a clear shot from all the trees etc....
They seemed to get a pretty clear shot when they fired a bullet at the poor thing
So the fact that the majority of us think that it's a bit off that some police killed a bear given the information at hand makes us morons? Think you need a reality check.
Also using capitals in your post like that doesn't help your argument at all, it just makes it look like you can't communicate/articulate properly.
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the lyrics in part were written by an american but surely they could have not plagarised our tune?
^ What a knob.
Anyway, I read this in the news this morning and was quite saddened. Mainly for the bear and its situation (days without food/water and in panic). However, sad that people in the U.S can't seem to capture a wild animal alive in 6 days.
Funny thing is, all this rubbish about not getting a clear shot, yet the picture on BBC clearly shows the bear out in the open, on its own....no clear shot there or were they all on lunch at the time? Perhaps shoulda left the tranq gun with the photographer.
Perhaps, but the tune was quite popular in the United States anyway.
this...
Especially when the bear can run a hell of a lot faster than you, and even with a jar on your head kill you or any person it sees with ease.
Sniper rifle dart gun? It is America....
dart guns aren't very powerful other wise the dart would break. and the darts them selves aren't exactly the most aerodynamically stable of things.
but the bbc quotes say that the issue with tranquilizing it was the forest. I don't think the town was in the middle of the forest
Also if people couldn't get close enough to a bear without it scarpering then why worry about it going into a town? Presumably it would just run the opposite direction?
I know it's not as clean cut as that and God knows what it would do in a busy town but I bet it's more of a case of it was reported 6 days prior and they couldn't catch it so forgot about it, then 6 days later after its been forgotten about wanders into town. Speculation obviously but it wouldn't suprise me if it were true.
Sniper rifle dart gun? It is America....
You have to fire it from point blank range. Fine for animals that aren't scared of humans. But not a chance for deer and bears. And if a bear isn't scared of humans, then I'd start to worry, even one with a jar on there head. Those claws can rip you to bits, and even if he was clawless can trample you, or swipe you hard enough to break your ribs.