This NYT article about how to handle human/bear interactions is pretty grimly determined not to discuss the obvious answer of what to do when bears encroach on human settlements, so let me do it for the New York Times: bear in your kitchen? Shoot the bear. Bear in your suburban garden? Shoot the bear. Bear looks at you funny? Shoot the bear.
Bears aren’t dumb. They’ll get the message. Which is, bluntly: we evolved into fully-sentient tool-users and you didn’t. That means that we get the nice bits of real estate and you get whatever we feel like letting you have. Don’t like it? Sucks to be you, ursine.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
PS: DON’T FEED THE DAMNED BEARS, EITHER. That only confuses them.
Look on the bright side, Moe. It means we ultimately win. The people most likely to treat bears as fuzzywuzzy fellow mammals are also the ones most likely to be eaten by bears. It’s an extension of the Roe Effect.
Ric, the problem is that we all look alike to bears.
True enough, Moe, but consider: which is more likely to end up with Human 1, Bear 0 — a Tea Partier, or the median reader of the NYT?
Median consumer of the NYT, I should say. Lots of us read it for the chuckles without taking any of it seriously.
Tim Treadwell to the white courtesy phone…