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Bears are neighbors, too?
Dear Editor,
The caption to the picture titled “Bears are neighbors, too,” (in the June 11 issue of Neighbor News) should read “UN-fortunately he was shot only with a camera.”
Bears are dangerous wild omnivors that have no business in heavily populated suburban areas. While the bear-hugging crowd may pile on disinformation about how harmless black bears are, the truth is these bruins can, and do, KILL humans.
You could ask Nick Ruberto of Minnesota what he thinks of black bears. It's a shame you can't - he’s dead.
You could ask 11-year-old Samuel Evan Ives of Utah what he thinks of black bears. Sorry, can't, he's dead too.
How about 6-year-old Elora Petrasek of Tennessee? Darn it, she's dead as well.
Or the family of Ester Schwimmer, 5 months, New York - snatched from an unattended stroller and half eaten.
It's one thing for a person to enter a bears' habitat and get attacked, it is quite another for bears to enter human habitat. They are NOT welcome. We do not need to live in fear that the kids playing in the back yard will be a black bear's next snack. Black bears are built for stealth, you're likely not to know one is near until it's too late.
The fact that black bears are showing up in suburban areas is all the common sense proof that is required to indicate there is a over-population problem. Cull the population, and let us have one less thing to worry about.
As for the bear-hugging crowd - go ahead, try to hug a wild black bear and see what happens. I double dare ya.
Michael Hartmann
Boonton
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