[at-l] Father Cited For Feeding Bear

[kahley7@ptd.net (kahley)]

At 10:20 AM 7/13/01 -0400, Charles Copeland wrote:



>Dad:  "I figured the bear would just lick the honey off of him.  How was I
>to know he'd eat him.  Yogi Bear never ate anybody!!"

Not far off IIRC....
started off OK, with the bear politely licking off the honey.  At some 
point the
kid had had enough and tried to pull away.  The bear_was_not_fininshed_yet.

Can you imagine what went thru this kid's mind re: his father?
Do you think he may have 'issues' re: his father?


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>There was a song that was popular a few years ago that had the line: "the
>world is full of stupid people...".  My worry is that I, or someone I know,
>is going to have to deal with the results of a bear being fed by a bunch of
>stupid people - namely a bear that now wants me for lunch!
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>Charles
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> > From: kahley <kahley7@ptd.net>
> > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:46:56 -0500
> > To: John O <johno@mail.monmouth.com>, at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> > Subject: Re: [at-l] Father Cited For Feeding Bear
> >
> > At 08:43 AM 7/13/01 -0400, John O wrote:
> >> The Warren County Prosecutor Office would file that charge under NJ 
> Statues
> >> not the State Park Service.
> >> A possible $2,000.00 fine should open folks eyes.  If they don't care 
> about
> >> their kid's welfare maybe the threat of a stiff fine will curb this in the
> >> future.
> >> John
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> >
> > I dunno...a couple years ago there was a case of a kid getting mauled
> > because his father
> > spread honey on him to get a picture of the bear licking the 
> kid.....sheeesh.
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> >> At 02:31 AM 7/13/01 +0800, you wrote:
> >>> Why don't they cite the father with child endangerment too?
> >>> Plodder
> >>>>
> >>>> Father cited for feeding bear that hurt his son
> >>
> >> http://www.monmouth.com/~johno/index.html
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