More Stupidity With Wild Animals

[RVTECH]

Man feeds wild bear out of his mouth

Most campers wouldn’t dare get this close to a bear. That didn’t stop Dakota Datz from mouth-feeding a curious black bear in the woods of Pennsylvania. Watch as the bearded bro, sportin…

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[Mikej]

I hope someone is taping when the bear bites his face off. He's one of the reasons there are warning signs everywhere.

 

[mrblond]

ah, to be young and dumb again

 

[Alexx1401]

Social media has one big up side I guess. It has been good for cleaning the gene pool often. This kind of stuff has of course LONG been done but, now that people can share it to the world it does lead to a LOT more people getting hurt and killed. When I was a kid I worked for the County Parks for a while. One older worker had a job at a park where they caught a family one day doing this for pics. They had their little girl stand there while they had smeared honey on her face so a local Black Bear would lick the little girls face. When the Ranger read them the riot act the parents of course got super angry that they were being told off. Stupidity should be painful and sadly it's not painful often enough.

 

[Ruger Rich]

Man feeds wild bear out of his mouth

Most campers wouldn’t dare get this close to a bear. That didn’t stop Dakota Datz from mouth-feeding a curious black bear in the woods of Pennsylvania. Watch as the bearded bro, sportin…

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I'm betting it was a female bear and the guy was trying to "hook up".

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Yea that's dumb. Lots of people do all
Kinda of dumb these days. did you see the hunter attacked by a grizzly in Montana today? Every huntings season there's 3-4 attacks or close to in Montana these days. Need to open up a hint on those

 

[Alexx1401]

Yea that's dumb. Lots of people do all
Kinda of dumb these days. did you see the hunter attacked by a grizzly in Montana today? Every huntings season there's 3-4 attacks or close to in Montana these days. Need to open up a hint on those

A LOT of people see the large Browns and fear them, as they should. Sadly a LOT of people see a Black, like this one, and foolishly think it's "cute" and a play thing. Amazing ignorance as it's simple to read the stories of people killed by a 150# "cute black bear". They are not the large monsters the Browns are but that does not mean they can't hurt you.
I used to work with a guy who lost a finger to a Racoon. He had been feeding them in his back yard for a long time. They got so tame they would take food from his hand. Well one day one felt threatened or something because it bit one finger so badly the ER had to amputate what was left of it. Then he also got to go through a rabies series just in case. Amazing how stupid some people can be with wild animals.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I seen a video a few years ago I think took place in Montana where a grizzly bear caught a deer & killed it in someones yard. The home owner took a video camera and was video taping this at real close distance. Some people just have no clue.

 

[P7M13]

Amazing how stupid some people can be with wild animals.

Yeah, some even marry them.

 

[Mikej]

A LOT of people see the large Browns and fear them, as they should. Sadly a LOT of people see a Black, like this one, and foolishly think it's "cute" and a play thing. Amazing ignorance as it's simple to read the stories of people killed by a 150# "cute black bear". They are not the large monsters the Browns are but that does not mean they can't hurt you.
I used to work with a guy who lost a finger to a Racoon. He had been feeding them in his back yard for a long time. They got so tame they would take food from his hand. Well one day one felt threatened or something because it bit one finger so badly the ER had to amputate what was left of it. Then he also got to go through a rabies series just in case. Amazing how stupid some people can be with wild animals.

Damn man. This years for the first time ever we've had a scrub jay that comes into our garage when the door's open, and goes from limb to limb in the tree in front of the living room window to get our attention, and takes peanuts from our hands. We'd better start wearing safety glasses! You know? It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!

 

[MannyGlocks]

I've witnessed parents pose their toddlers next to 12' alligators sunning on walking paths banks in a certain state park in Texas.

Adult size humans are rarely attacked by alligators, but toddlers are snacking size....

 

[Alexx1401]

Damn man. This years for the first time ever we've had a scrub jay that comes into our garage when the door's open, and goes from limb to limb in the tree in front of the living room window to get our attention, and takes peanuts from our hands. We'd better start wearing safety glasses! You know? It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye!

I had a neighbor who used to love to feed the Jays from a window. He would hold peanuts and they would take them from his hand. He spent hours at that window feeding them. It was easy to see the highlight of his day

 

[Alexx1401]

I seen a video a few years ago I think took place in Montana where a grizzly bear caught a deer & killed it in someones yard. The home owner took a video camera and was video taping this at real close distance. Some people just have no clue.

There was one here a while back, may have been that video. Damn thing is next to a tennis court and you can hear the people filming it going on are pretty damn close. Closer than I would have gotten for sure.

 

[Mikej]

It was easy to see the highlight of his day

It's roughly a $40.00 a month habit. Birds that is. We got a real kick out of watching the pair of crows this year successfully fledge two young. Last year the one ended up dead on our front lawn after being down from the nest early. Watching the adults teaching methods to train their young to feed themselves was amazing. They come when I call them like you would "click" to get a horse to go?.

 

[Alexx1401]

It's roughly a $40.00 a month habit. Birds that is. We got a real kick out of watching the pair of crows this year successfully fledge two young. Last year the one ended up dead on our front lawn after being down from the nest early. Watching the adults teaching methods to train their young to feed themselves was amazing. They come when I call them like you would "click" to get a horse to go?.

I don't want to even try to figure out what I spend on this. Have LONG fed the critters. As I was reading this I had to stop to go put out more for the Squirrels who were telling me the feeder was empty.

 

[revjen45]

1) Black bears may look cute and not so scary as a Brownie the size of an F-250, but they do regard ppl as victuals. Brownies are more likely to charge to protect the chillun or to defend territory. Black 'uns will check it out and actively pursue humans for din-din. At least you don't need as much gun for them as it takes for a Grizzly.

2) Am I the only one who thinks ppl like Steve Irwin are partly responsible for the Drooling Masses not taking wild animals seriously?

3) " I seen a video a few years ago I think took place in Montana where a grizzly bear caught a deer & killed it in someones yard. The home owner took a video camera and was video taping this at real close distance. Some people just have no clue."
Ursus Horribilis is the Alpha predator in its environment and the largest terrestrial in existence.
Liberalis Urbanus has lost any vestige of good sense/survival instincts that Nature and Nature's God imparted to Man, due to multi-generational exposure to a socio/political Weltanschauung that denies every aspect of Reality. Every day is opposite day to them, so why not take a picture of your kid sitting next to a predator with a 200 million year resume of eating whatever they want? These cretins have to learn that nature shows and cartoons aren't a depiction of the Real World, but I guess anybody who believes in socialism as a viable socio-economic system will believe anything.

4) A bird feeder has an excellent cost:enjoyment ratio.

 

[Mikej]

I don't want to even try to figure out what I spend on this. Have LONG fed the critters. As I was reading this I had to stop to go put out more for the Squirrels who were telling me the feeder was empty.

Squirrels are the enemy around here. Ever since the rats got into my attic, and every years dig up my flowerpots and garden plants. I relocate those vermin.

You wait, one day those monsters will morph into something that will kill us all.

 

[Alexx1401]

Squirrels are the enemy around here. Ever since the rats got into my attic, and every years dig up my flowerpots and garden plants. I relocate those vermin.

You wait, one day those monsters will morph into something that will kill us all.

LOL, yep I have to repair the screening to keep them out of the damn house now and then but I just love watching them chase each other around in the trees. They have some really impressive battles over the territory. Dogs love them too, running out of the house to chase them back up the tree's every time they see them.

 

[Provincial]

Black bears can be very dangerous. Here is an example:

When I was flying telephone construction workers around Alaska in the early 1980's, they were putting underground telephone systems in small villages all over the state. One job was at Gustavus, near Glacier Bay. This was not a small job, and was spread out over nearly ten miles. It happened to be started in mid-September, and drug out into October, and we were losing daylight as Fall advanced. We had two crews working, and they all got around on Honda three-wheelers.

We had an inspector (from an independent company) assigned to the job who was a retired telephone man in his late 60's. Jerry was 6'6" tall, thin, and lanky. His company assigned him a Hoda 125 three-wheeler for transportation. He looked like the guy from the old Laugh-In skits with the man on the kid's tricycle, knees up in the air on the tiny machine!

As darkness fell one afternoon, Jerry left the job site and started the 2-mile trek back to our lodgings, travelling flat-out down a gravel road. He came around a corner and there were three black bears standing in the road. He had no room to stop and hit one broadside, knocking it over and sending the bike end-over-end, with Jerry flying off in mid-air. Jerry was stunned, but all right, and it took a few seconds for him to get his bearings. In the meantime, his "victim" recovered and grew angry. An angry bear often stands up, as bears use their height to both intimidate opponents, and size them up. This one stood up, growling. Jerry struggled to his feet, and stood up. The bear looked up at him, turned, and ran! Jerry was almost a foot taller.