It’s Raining Bears!
Hallelujah! Or whatever the opposite of hallelujah is. Because in New Jersey, that's what is happening.
"I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me," said Grossman. "For a minute I didn't realize there was a glass between him and me."
The scream Grossman let out was loud enough to startle the wandering bear, who turned tail and scurried some 40 feet up a tree.
More than 50 neighbors gathered to watch and the beast soon grew tired. As the bear gave a lazy yawn, the crowd cooed loudly in appreciation.
"He's really kind of cute," said Joanne Penaluna.
The bear remained wedged in a web of branches until it was shot with a tranquilizer dart Sunday. The bear hung on for 10 minutes before dropping neatly into a taut net set up below.
The bear was a scout for the Animal Uprising™, of course. That's why he was looking in the kitchen window. He was scoping out the available food inside. Which was the lady making coffee, incidentally.
By OldeForce, February 12, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
“…kind of cute”, she said. Wait until the bears are ripping down bird feeders, destroying trash cans – and maybe coming in through screened windows and doors.
Used to live in NJ, and it seems that way too many of the population have seen “Bambi” and other cartoons to the point their brains have turned to stale oatmeal. Bears have been in the outskirts of Newark and Trenton – and these are cities, not the suburbs. NJ, unknown to most, actually has a great number of open spaces. It’s been said that there are more deer there than when the first settlers arrived. And mountain lions have been seen in northern NJ.