Green Turtle Pond Bear attacking Deer footage!!!

[yumasdad]

A brief summation of video:

Bambi goes to pond for a cool drink of water.
Yogi spies a picnic basket (IE: BAMBI)
Yogi traps Bambi @ waters edge & puts the clamps on Bambi then proceeds to down poor Bambi.
A brief unnecessary zoom of the kayaker's leg & then it is back to live action.
Bambi thrashes in water, kicks legs in vain & mews when it can get its head above water....a few final leg kicks then Yogi drags dinner out of lake.

The sound of the poor deer suffering & fighting for it's life will haunt me for days.

I cannot even fish with live bait any longer let alone take a few smallmouths home for dinner... guess I would make a lousy bear.

[bunker dunker]

its been going on since the beginning of time.deer eat grass bears eat deer.
who says the bear numbers are down???? don't blame the bear my arse,he breaks my fence he can tell st peter I gave him the ticket.

[bling306]

This also just happened in West Milford...
"According to West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck, dispatch received a call at around 10 a.m. today from a homeowner reporting a loud noise coming from the downstairs family room. The chief said that noise was caused by an approximately 200-pound black bear that apparently gained access to the home - and a bag of cat food there within - via a lower level window.

The bear fled through the same window, presumably when officers arrived on the scene, Storbeck said. The bear was subsequently euthanized by the responding officer, he said. "

The comments section is gold haha

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crim...lice-1.1383677

[buzzbaiter]

Another unarmed black being killed by police

paul czajkowski · fair lawn, new jersey
the only reason the cops shot him was cause he was a black bear. If it was a polar bear they wouldn't have shot him.

[briansnat]

Originally Posted by bling306

This also just happened in West Milford...
"According to West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck, dispatch received a call at around 10 a.m. today from a homeowner reporting a loud noise coming from the downstairs family room. The chief said that noise was caused by an approximately 200-pound black bear that apparently gained access to the home - and a bag of cat food there within - via a lower level window.

The bear fled through the same window, presumably when officers arrived on the scene, Storbeck said. The bear was subsequently euthanized by the responding officer, he said. "

The comments section is gold haha

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crim...lice-1.1383677

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.

[yumasdad]

Originally Posted by briansnat

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.

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The deer have learned that they are safe in the burbs so they are proliferating there & their predators have followed them as well.
I grew up in WAYNE & we rarely ever saw a deer growing up-when did it was a big treat. The town is filthy with them now along with coyotes as well as bear.

The larger males displace the smaller males if they cannot catch & eat them so that is why we are seeing more bear in the burbs-especially as the summer draws to a close & the breeding season is starting.

Any bear that performs a B&E into a home is shot on the spot. It is up to us to be smarter than the bear to prevent unfortunate consequences by keeping garbage secured & in bear safe cans, windows closed along with doors etc. They are the apex predator & need to be respected & managed not hunted back into extinction so people can have some crappy chewy stew meat & rug

[tautog]

If I only we had the same policy for human burglars...

[yumasdad]

Originally Posted by tautog

If I only we had the same policy for human burglars...

They do in TEXAS! Black bear, brown bear, white bear it doesn't matter.

[bling306]

Originally Posted by briansnat

I'm in West Milford about a mile from where that happened. That morning I heard a bear outside my BR window. The snorts and snuffling sounds were unmistakable. By the time I got out of bed and went to the window it was gone, but a look out the front door showed nearly every garbage can in view on its side, with the garbage strewn around the street. It was definitely a bear I heard. A few hours later that bear was shot not far away. I wondered if it was the same one.

The comments section in that article is frighting. Most of those posters don't realize that once a bear learns that the inside of a home means food, no home is safe. And I have to laugh at "the bears were here first" argument. They were virtually extinct in NJ for much of the 20th century, while these homes were being built. And bear were also there first in NYC, Newark, Paterson, etc. I bet "the bear were here first" crowd might be singing a different tune if bear were wandering the streets of NY, Newark, etc. killing pets and breaking into homes.

Over the past dozen years they have been seen wandering Wayne, Totowa, West Orange and Little Falls. Hardly bear country. There are simply too may bear for the available habitat. Fortunately or unfortunately, many wild animals have adapted to living in close quarters to humans. I grew up in Passaic in the 60's and 70's and never even saw a freakin' rabbit. Now there are deer living there. I was shocked to see one run past my parent's house about 10 years ago.

I'm in WM now too. I moved up here about a year ago. So far I have only seen one bear but according to my neighbor they are in our area quite frequently during the day. I couldnt agree more with your post.