Cop kills Bear in Tree

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Just how is it a waste on the Game Commission’s part?
 
R.S. Bodenhorn

While police waited for a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer to arrive with a tranquilizer gun, they determined that the bear was endangering people and they shot it in a woman's backyard.

Too **** slow!
Them bears up a tree really pose a grave danger to all the peeps under the tree sportin' marshmallows. I imagine the bear smelled doughnuts on the cops breath and all hell coulda broke loose.
These are the same cops "trained" to make life and death decisions during the stress of "combat" situations. Thank God for the 2nd Amandment!

ORIGINAL: tull66

ORIGINAL: RSB


Just how is it a waste on the Game Commission’s part?
 
R.S. Bodenhorn

While police waited for a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer to arrive with a tranquilizer gun, they determined that the bear was endangering people and they shot it in a woman's backyard.

Too **** slow!
Them bears up a tree really pose a grave danger to all the peeps under the tree sportin' marshmallows. I imagine the bear smelled doughnuts on the cops breath and all hell coulda broke loose.
These are the same cops "trained" to make life and death decisions during the stress of "combat" situations. Thank God for the 2nd Amandment!

 
WCOS generally have between 300 and 500 square miles of district and some have even more than that. If I am at one end of my district and get a call to the other end it will take me over an hour in response time even if I have clear roads and a heavy foot.
 
Plus as I understand it the WCO for that area was assisting at a Regional training session at the time the call came in. He left immediately and was traveling as fast as safely possible to get there. The Police Officers felt the need to kill the bear before he got there.
 
I fail to see how that is the fault of the Game Commission. If you want more WCO out there, so they don’t have to travel so far and have a faster response time, in such situations then you should be demanding that the Governor increase the number of employees the Game Commission is allowed and then getting behind a significant license fee increase to pay for more WCOs.
 
But, I bet you wouldn’t do that and all you really want to do is lay blame where even you should know it doesn’t belong.
 
R.S. Bodenhorn  

The big question is:
Were any of the people up in the tree in immanent danger? 

No question a citizen would be arrested- but how long would he be in jail?

If a Hollywood lawyer took the case would he use the castle doctrine as a defense



I hope no animals are harmed when they make this into a movie.

OK let's see now. A resident tax payer can't protect their self or personal property against bears with out being cited but a cop can make a decision to kill without a game agency Representative present. What are the duties of a Game Commission deputy ? They seem to have plenty of them. Why can't they perform duties or stand by until a WCO arrives? And don't give that excuse that there isn't any nearby. The bear killed was reported several times before it was slaughtered in Uniontown.



More on the story. Cop said that little children look like a squirrel to a bear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031683/He-liked-pasta-Bear-shot-near-crowded-Italian-food-festival-Pennsylvania.html

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But, I bet you wouldn’t do that and all you really want to do is lay blame where even you should know it doesn’t belong.

R.S. Bodenhorn  

Blowyourhorn, Lighten up. In your haste to protect the PGC, you missed my sarcasm about the PGC being slow getting there.

For crissake, it was a bear. There are a ton of them these days (too many for the amount of people but human population control isn't too PC these days). Yeah, it could have turned out better but man, some of you guys will take any opportunity to bash the PGC when they had NOTHING to do with the outcome of this incident.

If the LEO thought the bear needed to be put down, then so be it. This bear has been around there before and if attempts to scare it off weren't working, then problems were going to happen in the future, no matter what.

I do agree, if it was treed, the risk at that moment was probably minimal but maybe it was starting to come back down the tree or maybe the officer didn't want to risk the bear being chased towards the festival and took his opportunity at a stationary target rather then trying to pop a cap in a running bear in a urban/suburban environment.

I'd like to see an apex predator re-introduction program in the urban slums. Wolves in Wilkinsburg, Tigers in Homewood, Alligators in East Carnegie. Make the welfare loafers work for their money.

   Remember hunting back up in Maine when they stopped knocking out nuisance Bears and had to start putting them down. There had become so many nuisance complaints it was considered  a waste to  have them do the same thing all over again someplace else after bein moved.
   Would like to know it this bear had 'been around' for a while before passing any judgement. Just cause it got scared and treed dont mean it wasnt a PITA before and wasnt gonna be one again.
   On the flip side somebody coulda got all scarey and shot it cause they were Urbies who didnt know squat bout Bears or other wild stuff. Cept that the ones in the movin pictures can talk. Urbies LOOOOVVVVVE all the little creatures till they actually see one - then they go nuts.

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   Remember hunting back up in Maine when they stopped knocking out nuisance Bears and had to start putting them down. There had become so many nuisance complaints it was considered  a waste to  have them do the same thing all over again someplace else after bein moved.
  Would like to know it this bear had 'been around' for a while before passing any judgement. Just cause it got scared and treed dont mean it wasnt a PITA before and wasnt gonna be one again.
  On the flip side somebody coulda got all scarey and shot it cause they were Urbies who didnt know squat bout Bears or other wild stuff. Cept that the ones in the movin pictures can talk. Urbies LOOOOVVVVVE all the little creatures till they actually see one - then they go nuts.

Unointown is not an URBIE by a long shot . Look it up on google earth.

My parents are visited by a black bear on a regular basis.

Dad took the intelligent approach and kept garbage in basement till garbage night then put it out. That night is a buffet in the neighborhood with all of the cans out front

Neighbors bird feeder is on his dining list also-they took the radical approach of not filling it.

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This bear has been around there before and if attempts to scare it off weren't working, then problems were going to happen in the future, no matter what.

Now you did drag the PGC into it. Why not trap and transfer a known problem bear? Especially if the bear was a problem "going to happen in the future, no matter what".

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A treed bear is no threat to anyone except a person who doesn't know a squirrel from a young child.

I just needed to see that in print again...good stuff right there.

   If I had one in ona my trees here in Ct I'd be a happy camper. They are round here but not seen too much - I like Bears.
  We were bringin in some young dogs to a treed bear once and I had to whack its butt with a leash to send it back up till they got there for the tree experience. He was tryin to get down.
   Never forget the look he gave me either. He pooped and I got the heck away from that tree.
  The pups had a ball barkin their first treed bear though. Then we just backed off like we mostly do and off he went.  Fun day.

Sounds like Bozo the Bear story all over again...

ORIGINAL: tull66

ORIGINAL: eyesandgillz

This bear has been around there before and if attempts to scare it off weren't working, then problems were going to happen in the future, no matter what.

Now you did drag the PGC into it. Why not trap and transfer a known problem bear? Especially if the bear was a problem "going to happen in the future, no matter what".