Polar Bear attack

[Rhubarb]

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Has this reach you door yet?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-14422418

May be I'm turning callous, but, my first thoughts were 'idiots'

When we were in Norway we went to Anne's sister's for a bbq. Her partner had a photo of his Uncle (whose house it was) with a dead Polar Bear. He told us how very dangerous they are (at this time of year) and the oil plant where his Uncle worked had a huge electric fence around for protection, even then the bears could and would get in. Ole's Uncle shot the bear in the picture when it broke into the compound.

Camping! Not on an island where the Polar Bear should come first.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Hmm, nothing on this here that I heard, maybe someone else did though.

I'm with you - idiots. Flares and noise are not going to scare them off from your camp either. Although gorgeous, they are man eaters and highly intelligent. They know you're there and they'll come get you and whatever else is around you. Especially if they are living in crowded, unnatural conditions for polar bears.

Up north in some places, people go to garbage dumps to go bear watching and there have been documentaries showing how these animals will rip open the side of a trailer home to get to whatever and whoever is inside. This also is not behavior of starving animals, you just don't belong on their turf. Period.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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OH, we've had a black bear attach up in northern NJ where I live and some kids camping doing survivalist training got attacked by a grizzly this summer.

The black bear attack was seemingly unprovoked. The bear attacked a campsite and pulled kids out of the tent. The bear is now dead.

The grizzly attack is because these kids stumbled onto a sow with cubs by accident. I think while walking, they managed to stroll between the sow and cubs and that's what got her going.

[LKTraz]

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Idiots.

These are the same class of stupid people who go jogging alone in northern California and wonder why they get attacked by mountain lions.

The bears are simply doing what bears do. Polar bears are the apex predator in the region and it's just that simple. Don't want to run the risk of bear attack? Don't go stomping around on THEIR turf!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Matt said something about that bear attack in NJ was faked. A bear is dead because two kids lied. I'll have to find the story but he said something about the wounds were not consistent with a bear attack.

I was kind of wondering myself too. Black bears are not usually aggressive and won't go into a campsite to eat kids in a tent unless provoked. They'll rummage through things looking for food you failed to put up in a tree, but it's rare for an attack unless cubs were involved.

[Rhubarb]

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While my Uncle was away helping his brother in North Dakota after the floods my Aunt called my mum to say while she was chasing a groundhog out of the Veg' patch with a broom she came across a huge 'poo', so being Marianne she asked Ed when he called who had a dog in the area that big. It turned out to be Black Bear Poo. Her answer was 'Hmm, better buy a bigger broom.
She was told not to worry the bear would have been travelling through and would have not want human contact any more than she wanted to have Bear.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Most bears feel that way. Polar bears are carnivores as opposed to other bears who are omnivores, so human flesh is on the menu for them unlike the other species of bear who have plenty to choose for food.