Beary Bad News

In what can only be considered bad news, a bear climbed a 100 foot tall power pole and completely stopped traffic in the California desert.

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Must've been a poler bear. A black bear climbed 100 feet up a power pole and brought traffic to a halt on a California desert highway below as motorists stopped to gawk and take pictures.

In fact, it was a black bear that climbed 100 feet up a power pole in the sweltering high desert Friday and brought traffic to halt on a highway below as motorists stopped to gawk and take pictures.

"Not a whole lot we could do except keep the people out of the area and let him decide he needs to come down and continue his way on to the mountains, and with the assistance of the Highway Patrol that's what we did," game warden Martin Wall told KCAL-TV.

After a couple of hours taking in the view from a crossbar supporting electrical wires, the bear came back to earth, walked across the highway and ran off into the desert scrub.

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard spend seven days a week plus weekends documenting the Animal Uprising™ and we can tell you two things for certain. First, if suicide squirrels routinely cause electrical outages by lunging onto power lines and the bear did not, it is an irrefutable fact that bears are fully insulated electrically. Second, if the black bear spent a couple of hours up on his perch in the scorching desert sun and did not suffer heat stoke, we can conclude that the bear is actually solar-powered. Those two facts lead to an inescapable conclusion:

The Animal Uprising™ has perfected the Bear-Bot®.

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  By Anthony (Los Angeles), Saturday, 7 July , 2007 @ 6:22 pm

  You sure he wasn’t conducting a recon operation for the Rabbit Raider battalions?

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  By Blackhawk, Saturday, 7 July , 2007 @ 10:06 pm

  I have it on good authority (OK, Bud Light), that a penguin put him up to this….

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  By TC@LeatherPenguin, Sunday, 8 July , 2007 @ 7:37 am

  Right, Blackhawk, you blame us and hide behind crappy beer as an excuse for your reasoning….

  I take umbrage, sir!

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