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marmar

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Fri Jan 26, 2024, 09:16 AM Jan 2024

Bear that captivated Traverse City neighborhood was killed by hunter




TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A 350-pound black bear that perched for hours in a tree, causing a Mother's Day spectacle last spring in northern Michigan, was killed by a hunter, authorities said.

“It makes me sad, because I was just envisioning it living peacefully in the forest somewhere, thriving as a bear does,” said Ashlea Walter, who was among dozens of people who watched in May as authorities responded to a bear in a Traverse City neighborhood.

The bear was killed four months later in September in Emmet County, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. .................(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/01/26/bear-traverse-city-killed-hunter/72364189007/




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Bear that captivated Traverse City neighborhood was killed by hunter (Original Post) marmar Jan 2024 OP
Do we know the name of the lucky hunter? Srkdqltr Jan 2024 #1
Sick🤮 we can do it Jan 2024 #3
Killing living beings for sport. sinkingfeeling Jan 2024 #2
Absolutely disgusting bif Jan 2024 #4
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