Speeding kills bears

By on 2007 07 16 at 8:14:00 pm

Speeding kills bears

On the Tioga Road near Porcupine Flat.

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20 comments on "Speeding kills bears"
  1. Lesley's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    I could inhale that picture.

  2. Ron Sullivan's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Guess that’s why the bear took the train.

  3. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Should have, anyway. This is a sign the Park Service puts up where a bear gets roadkilled. Sort of like those roadside crosses. We now await the cross i’d bear jokes.

  4. Theriomorph's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear.

  5. omegapet's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    If we respected the second amendment in this country, the bears would have been armed.  No more problem speeding by disrespectful drivers when they see the 600-lb. bear holding a double-barreled shotgun.

    And now we have photographic proof that the speeding pope-mobile scared the shit out of some bear in the woods.  Or something.

  6. Rob G's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    We now await the cross i’d bear jokes

    It’s a grizzly prospect.

  7. buck's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    >We now await the cross i’d bear jokes

    >It’s a grizzly prospect.

    >This is going to be unbearable.

    it has barely begun

  8. pablo's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    I barely know you all, so I wish you’d stop baring it all.

  9. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Come on, punsters. It was just a Kodiak moment. No need to get so Polarized.

  10. Rob G's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Speeders should be forced to kiss ursine behinds. That would be very embearassing.

  11. Rachel Shaw's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    I thought bears were supposed to cross mountains, not roads.

  12. Hank Fox's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    I love the sign, and the sentiment that caused someone to think of putting them up.

    Not long back, I saw a dead beaver on the road near where I live. My friend best expressed the anger I felt—“Dammit, it’s not as if a beaver DASHES into the road!”

    I can imagine hitting a deer that bounds out onto the road. And recently, I myself almost hit a cat that practically blurred as it rocketed out into the road in front of me.

    But most of the critters struck on roads are killed by people just too unaware to notice what’s happening on the roadside.

    Hitting a bear is hard for me to forgive. They CAN run fast, but they usually don’t. Park bears are notorious for their deliberate gait, and are usually plenty big enough to notice.

    Bears should be ursine, and not hurt.

  13. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    It IS an ur-sign, isn’t it.

  14. KathyR's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    There’s trouble bruin in these comments.

  15. Rob G's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    There’s trouble bruin in these comments.

    I prefer to think of it as Caniformia Dreamin’, which could be an alternate name for this blog, come to think of it.

  16. embee's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Er, sign me up if there’s brewin’ goin’ on…

  17. Charles's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    Dammit, it’s not as if a beaver DASHES into the road!

    I saw a dead turtle on the street just down from our house the other day.  I thought of putting up a sign of my own.

  18. Chris Clarke's Gravatar, get your own at gravatar.com

    The naturalist Archie Fairly Carr wrote of people who intentionally swerve to run over road-crossing turtles: “there is probably nothing much that can be done about these people except to hope they skid.”

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