Up in Sussex County... two teens injured.

 

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20110803_ap_2injuredinbearattackinsussexcounty.html

 

I am willing to bet those two never leave Jersey City or The Bronx ever again.

They musta had food in the tent. You're warned about that. I kept all my food/trash/soap/etc in the car.

Just glad nobody got hurt and hopefully they will move the bear far.

They musta had food in the tent. You're warned about that. I kept all my food/trash/soap/etc in the car.

 

Nick- 100% correct. I have bears 4 or more in my yard every day. We live with them. NJSP should have kicked the kids asses royal instead of shooting the bear.

 

Stupid is as stupid does.

Yup, I cant leave my trash can outside without smokey getting into it. I guess they learned their lesson.......

They musta had food in the tent. You're warned about that. I kept all my food/trash/soap/etc in the car.

 

I thought this was un-wise... especially since the bear can easily tear your car apart to get at whats inside. I always though hanging the stuff from the tree was the better practice.

They musta had food in the tent. You're warned about that. I kept all my food/trash/soap/etc in the car.

Lol, that's not a much better place either, i mean sure they wont be coming for you, but you dont want to see a bear sitting shotty when you go to leave for home. I've see what bears can do to a car and it aint pretty.

 

I do agree tho, the bear should not have been because of some dumb city folk.

Well, if your car had a rag top then yes, but if it's in the trunk and the windows are up and sealed, they shouldn't be able to smell it.

 

Putting it up in the trees doesn't help unless it's really high. Plus with campsites the trees are generally smaller and the bears know to go there anyway.

I see bears all the time.

 

I wouldn't camp out in NW NJ for nuttin!

 

Here's last week's

 

That one looks mean.....

wow mark - that's a big'n. And with ear tags and a radio collar too. I will be glad to "catch" that one in December for you and return the ear tags and collar to DFW...

He's not big, he's average adult.

 

You can see some more of this particular one here : http://thewellrats.com/malbor2/bears/7-26-11/

 

If you knock off the date on the URL you can see other bears...the one eating my gas can was BIG.

the comments on NJ.com are just so... entertaining.

I have bears visiting regularly. My beagle treed one on the other side of the fence just a couple of days ago. I had one last year come up to the back door and pull down a bird feeder that was hanging 8 feet up. As was mentioned before, you couldn't pay me to sleep in the woods in this part of the state.

the comments on NJ.com are just so... entertaining.

 

Lol yeah - they are.

 

The link for the lazy:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/bear_attacks_injures_two_boys.html

I have bears visiting regularly. My beagle treed one on the other side of the fence just a couple of days ago. I had one last year come up to the back door and pull down a bird feeder that was hanging 8 feet up. As was mentioned before, you couldn't pay me to sleep in the woods in this part of the state.

 

 

You guys don't have a hair on your a**. Kim is in the hot tub every night w/ the IPod on, can't hear anything. And the bears haven't got her yet.

As long as you don't smell like Cheetos and aren't a dumb a** kid from the city you're safe.

 

Those kids were nitwits.

You guys don't have a hair on your a**. Kim is in the hot tub every night w/ the IPod on, can't hear anything. And the bears haven't got her yet.

As long as you don't smell like Cheetos and aren't a dumb a** kid from the city you're safe.

 

Those kids were nitwits.

My asss is full of hair. I'm just not suicidal (well, not in that way. I do smoke). How the hell do I know whether or not I smell tasty to a bear?

My asss is full of hair. I'm just not suicidal (well, not in that way. I do smoke). How the hell do I know whether or not I smell tasty to a bear?

 

 

New name for Ken..."Chicken ****"

 

Hey Ken ... How long ago did you move out of the city?

Out of Brooklyn about 30 or so years now.

As an Eagle Scout Dad I've had the pleasure of sleeping for weeks at a time at the Kittatiny Mountain Scout Reservation on Strubel Road off of Rt. 206 across the highway from the entrance to Stokes State Forrest. We always used a Bear Box and tied it high up in the trees. Only once in all my years of sleeping in a tent there did we get visited by a black bear. As an Assistant Scout Master we always lecture our Scouts to NOT have any food items in the tents or lean-to's. Well, after the bear made an appearance and had left, all of a sudden one of the kids started yelling at a fellow Scout. Seems he didn't want to be bear bait, so he dimed-out the rest of the kids in that lean-to. One of our other Assistant Scout Masters took a garbage bag around to the three lean-to's and collected about half a huge garbage bag's worth of contraband candy, nuts, crackers, gum, chips, et-al. We put the contraband in the bear box and had no further sightings.

 

Most of the time loud noises will scare them away, but the unarmed BSA Camp Ranger & I did have a discussion on what kind of sidearms are useful in that circumstance. Seems that the Scout Council had asked him to start carrying just prior to our arrival at the last week of summer camp on the schedule.

 

It goes without saying that those kids had food stuffs in the tents.........

I see bears all the time.

 

I wouldn't camp out in NW NJ for nuttin!

 

Here's last week's

 

 

 

Awww he has a Collar..what did you name your little buddy?????

You guys don't have a hair on your a**. Kim is in the hot tub every night w/ the IPod on, can't hear anything. And the bears haven't got her yet.

As long as you don't smell like Cheetos Fried Chicken and aren't a dumb a** kid from the city you're safe.

 

Those kids were nitwits.

 

 

Fixed it for you Frank

Awww he has a Collar..what did you name your little buddy?????

 

Rug?

 

Stuffed?

 

MMM MMM Good?

Rug?

 

Stuffed?

 

MMM MMM Good?

 

I was going for something like "Garbage Scow" or "Furry trash picker".

 

You figure he's digging through garbage and depositing it elsewhere...just like a Garbage scow.

 

Visually, this bear's face looks female to me. Females tend to have longer snouts and large ears. Males have big fat round heads and squatty ears.

 

The body however looks more like a male. If you look at the other pictures, it's got a shorter neck and a big fat body like a male.

 

Maybe it's just a Shim.

As an Eagle Scout Dad I've had the pleasure of sleeping for weeks at a time at the Kittatiny Mountain Scout Reservation on Strubel Road off of Rt. 206 across the highway from the entrance to Stokes State Forrest. We always used a Bear Box and tied it high up in the trees. Only once in all my years of sleeping in a tent there did we get visited by a black bear.

 

Really!? I have seen at least one bear there every time I camped up there. My troop pretty much camped @ Dan Beard exclusively. Also, we had a MONSTER come through our site one year, knock over the reinforced bear box, and climb/jump on top of it. Luckily we over-built it and he was unable to get in, but it was certainly a scary sight.

Our Troop was usually at Rocky Point in the Lean-to's, about half-way up "Hernia Hill". My son will be 22 this month, so it's been a while since we camped there. The one bear we did see came through our sight around 4:00 or 5:00 am with Ranger Mark Mullen chasing it, screaming, "RANGER, RANGER, BEAR IN YOUR SITE!!", so it was eventful to say the least! That was the day we had our talk about sidearms.

 

I also remember a fried bat in his fuse box at his residence (we did electrical work there putting outlets in for him) next to the work yard where the garbage dumpster was with the electric fence around it, LOL!

 

I vaguely remember hearing about the Dan Beard site bear box incident. Not sure what year or which week in the camping schedule. We usually camped during the last week of camp (this week on the calendar).

 

One time at Yard's Creek, in the fall on a weekend camp-out, we waved to 3 bears near the entrance on the way in on Friday. We used our cars for water trips that weekend!

 

Getting back to the contraband story: The looks on those kid's faces when all of the stuff hit the big bag as the ASM went from one Lean-to to another was simply precious!

 

Ah, the good-ole days!

 

Dave

Good deal, you were on the complete other side of the campground... by the Rifle Range if my memory is correct. We were always at camp during the second week.

Yeah, you got the site correct! I always liked being close to the rifle & shotgun range....it made it easier to hang-out there and help teach the scouts. Deer would walk right in front of the berm and you had to blow a whistle to call a CEASE FIRE so bambi wouldn't get hit with a "stray" round or pelted with #7 1/2 shot!

 

I donated a 20 ga. Mossberg 500 Youth Model to the Council a few years prior to the Council decision to no longer have summer camp on the property. Wonder if they're still using it to teach the scouts at Yard's Creek?

I was briefed last night on the event and understand that State fish and game officers are looking for the now wounded bear since they shot it in the neck and it ran off.

My asss is full of hair. I'm just not suicidal (well, not in that way. I do smoke). How the hell do I know whether or not I smell tasty to a bear?