By The Associated Press

DRIGGS, Idaho (AP) -- An 11-year-old Idaho boy fatally shot a black bear on his family's front porch after he said it wouldn't leave.

 

The boy was at his home near Driggs, just west of the Idaho-Wyoming border, with his younger sisters last Wednesday when the bear showed up. He says he couldn't shoo the animal away, so he went and got a gun and shot it.

 

Doug Petersen, a conservation officer with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, says the boy and his family probably won't be in any trouble, because the agency had received multiple complaints about a black bear in the area. The bear had been hanging around a transfer station and getting into garbage cans and bird feeders.

 

Petersen says Fish and Game doesn't usually issue citations in situations where the bear had been a problem around humans.

 

The agency has issued the family a permit to keep the bear's carcass.

 

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can you imagine that in nj the kid and his parents would be going to trenton state forever

Idaho has common sense.

Plus one on common sense.

And good potatoes

The agency has issued the family a permit to keep the bear's carcass.

 

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I wonder how bear meat tastes.

I heard it's good if it's cooked right.

 

I almost accidentally hit a big ass doe on the highway the other day. I would a filled out the paperwork to keep it if I did hit it.

The agency has issued the family a permit to keep the bear's carcass.

 

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I wonder how bear meat tastes.

 

Generally pretty awful.

The agency has issued the family a permit to keep the bear's carcass.

 

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I wonder how bear meat tastes.

Depends on the time of the year you get it. In the spring/summer when the bear eats a lot of berries and stuff it is pretty good. In the fall when it is gorging itself on the salmon run or anything it can to fatten up for winter it is not that good.