I didn't tell you I saw a bear on the way to work today!

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Just a little black bear. He was waddling up the road, saw me and ran across, I stopped the car to look at him, he bolted and squeezed his fat black ass through a seemingly tiny whole in a fence, jiggling all the way.

Bears are cool.

[Maple]

1. Right up until

he sniffs the food in your car. ;)

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2. Or redecorates the front walk with your garbage

[Maple]

3. Heh...as long as he

doesn't redecorate it with you, you're okay.

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4. Did you guy sout east get the story about the guy in Manning park?

I'll see if I can find it.

I can't find t - anyway this kid out ran - and kicked a bear in the nose as it tried to eat him.

[Dude_CalmDown]

5. Seen this one?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/29/life.bear.reut/index.html

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6. Close yer door buddy

[amandae]

10. Beer and now chocolate!??

No wonder bears are so fat!!!

:hi:

[Tom Kitten]

7. Neat!

I'm just a city boy myself, but I've seen bears (the black variety) a couple of times...
Once while rafting down the Rogue River, we went around a bend and a young bear was crossing the river...by the time I got my camera, he was already on the bank and commenced racing down the trail...It was very quick, but I caught a pic of it and here it is...The bear is the little dot under the second tree on the right...

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8. The coolest for me was....

Driving down this high alpine trail...I saw this huge brown bear head pop up off the side of the road and run across the road. He sat on the bank and looked at me for a moment.

He looked just like a grizzly but I though "Nah there are none in the Okanagan."
I was telling the story to the local wildlife officer and he said at the elevation I was at, coupled with the fact they were re-introducing them to the area, AND the description - I saw a grizzly. Neat eh? It was a little one though, I 'd like to see a big SOB like the ones up on the Northwest coast of BC

One of these buggers!

[tigereye]

9. you see more bears than anyone!

I live in Pa. and I have never seen a bear outside of the zoo. My husb's family used to have a cabin in the woods and he has. I am not sure I would want to see one up too close.

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11. In a car it's cool

It's always so surreal when I see them. ALways a shock like "This can't be happening"

[Maple]

12. Just don't get near one of yer polar bears

even in a car.

If they take exception to you, they'll rip off yer tires.

Assuming they don't go for the door first.

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13. I love that old footage from the 70s

In Churchhill where that bear starts slamming on the guys door trying to get to him, lucky for him he had a reliable starter

[Maple]

14. Yup, I love polar bears

But you have to respect them as the force of nature they are.

Ten feet tall...you don't get lippy with them. :D