Bear attack in Yellowstone

[Ron Marshall]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=moreheadlines

[BarryS]

This was all the bear's/camper's/government's/park service's/nature's fault. The campers should have not been there in the first place/shot the bear/shot all bears/pepper sprayed the bears/calmly allowed themselves to be eaten. Never go into bear country/7-11/a gas station restroom/a trendy NYC club/anywhere without a gun/extra guns/a large sack of giant guns/common sense/a copy of Thoreau/a can-do attitude/respect for nature/a robot-ninja friend.

[Walter Calahan]

When the smoke clears most bear attacks come down to errors by people, not the bears. We are visitors to their forest, and we must play by their rules, not the rules of suburban America.

[goamules]

This was all the bear's/camper's/government's/park service's/nature's fault. The campers should have not been there in the first place/shot the bear/shot all bears/pepper sprayed the bears/calmly allowed themselves to be eaten. Never go into bear country/7-11/a gas station restroom/a trendy NYC club/anywhere without a gun/extra guns/a large sack of giant guns/common sense/a copy of Thoreau/a can-do attitude/respect for nature/a robot-ninja friend.

HA! Barry, thanks for summing up the next 127 posts....before they are made!

[Bill_1856]

I bet they were using digital cameras.

[goamules]

Everyone knows digital can't compete with film when being used to provoke bears. Or bear thread enthusiasts.

[lecarp]

I bet they were using digital cameras.

The Bears or the campers?

[jwaddison]

This was all the bear's/camper's/government's/park service's/nature's fault. The campers should have not been there in the first place/shot the bear/shot all bears/pepper sprayed the bears/calmly allowed themselves to be eaten. Never go into bear country/7-11/a gas station restroom/a trendy NYC club/anywhere without a gun/extra guns/a large sack of giant guns/common sense/a copy of Thoreau/a can-do attitude/respect for nature/a robot-ninja friend.

Perfect.

[Michael S]

I am a firm believer in the right to arm bears.

[Diane Maher]

Somehow this seems wrong. They are going to kill the female bear and decide what to do with the cubs, most likely not releasing them back into the wild? That's terrible! Close the campground instead. Surely there are other campgrounds in that park. The bear was probably trying to protect her cubs. I know, the article says it was a highly unusual, predatory attack, but how can they be certain? How can they tell the difference between that and how a mother would defend her cubs? For that matter, how do they know that they got the right bear? She could be an innocent bystander, in the wrong place at the wrong time.