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generalbetrayus

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3. 74-year-old man had no business trying to shoo the bear out of the house by himself.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 7, 2024, 04:06 PM

Oct 2024

Everybody should have fled to the bedroom first thing and called 911. I'm pretty sure sheriff's deputies in Lake City and Colorado Division of Wildlife personnel are prepared for this kind of thing, including carrying sedative dart guns and sidearms. Lake City is a tiny town surrounded by a boatload of mostly Federal land full of wildlife - people drive up from Texas to hunt there in the fall hunting season. If I lived there I would never leave a door open.

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Bears desperate for food as they go into hibernation... hlthe2b Oct 2024 #1

Very good points and well said. Humans are in animals' environment appalachiablue Oct 2024 #2

74-year-old man had no business trying to shoo the bear out of the house by himself. generalbetrayus Oct 2024 #3