FisherMike Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 i just heard on the radio that police just shot a bear in west london today. thats pretty shocking news for london. i guess a lot of the boars from the bruce peninsula are moving further south to establish their own territories. pretty crazy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 i just heard on the radio that police just shot a bear in west london today. thats pretty shocking news for london. i guess a lot of the boars from the bruce peninsula are moving further south to establish their own territories. pretty crazy!! Yep, that's what happens when you stop hunting and the population expands unchecked. FYI it was weak knee'd polititcians down in South Western Ontario that brought about the demise of the spring bear hunt, so all bears that show up down there should be forwarded to your local politician so that they can take care of the cuddly little teddy bears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 (edited) Just watched this. They say the bear was going,I say going, to attack a police officer. Yeah ok. Where was the MNR on this one? Couldnt tranquilize/trap the bear and replace it somewhere? JOKE. Can you believe the cop even posed with the kill.SICK. Well said Drift. Edited April 27, 2010 by BrianB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskieman Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's funny ... I just looked it up and apparently it's a passer-by from Alberta that shot it. here's the picture. RFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBoats_Onlyfloats Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's funny ... I just looked it up and apparently it's a passer-by from Alberta that shot it. here's the picture. RFS OMG AWSOME PIC!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizzo Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 i guess a lot of the boars from the bruce peninsula are moving further south ...and the bears are following them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brifishrgy Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 london Bear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FisherMike Posted April 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Rizzo, a boar is a male bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Rizzo, a boar is a male bear. Forgive him,hes new to the country living. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskieman Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 (edited) a "Bear" is also a Cop... so the Bear could be following a Boar or a Bear... technically a Boar is also a Pig... so this could mean that the Pig is following the Boar It's 'kinda like the Son of a Birch or Son of a Beach thing. RFS Edited April 28, 2010 by Randy from Sturgeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 a "Bear" is also a Cop... so the Bear could be following a Boar or a Bear... technically a Boar is also a Pig... so this could mean that the Pig is following the Boar It's 'kinda like the Son of a Birch or Son of a Beach thing. RFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walleyejigger Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 AT LAST!!!!! our plan is working....mmwwwwwaahahahaha if i had my way many more would be heading south, see how they like it, lookin at the size of it calling it a boar isn't deserving, just call it a bear or male bear, or kitten, just wait till the actuall big boars start roamin around your neighbourhoods and schoolyards, then be told its your fault for having bird seed out or not keeping a weeks worth of garbage indoors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 I think it's a good thing that bears are returning to Southern Ontario. They were native down here as well. Seeing as urban folk don't want to see them hunted, they should learn to adapt to having bars and yotes in their backyards. Waiting to see if some urban survivalist type will try to pull a Crockett and "grin a Bar to death" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bailey Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 I highly doubt that a bear is going to get that far without being spotted earlier, same as with the one a few blocks away from me last year in Pickering, and the one a couple of years ago in Newmarket. To me a more likely explanation is that disgruntled hunters are capturing and releasing them near urban areas. People like these for instance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 I highly doubt that a bear is going to get that far without being spotted earlier, same as with the one a few blocks away from me last year in Pickering, and the one a couple of years ago in Newmarket. To me a more likely explanation is that disgruntled hunters are capturing and releasing them near urban areas. People like these for instance. MNR Density Map shows that the population of black bears is unfairly distributed That's true!!!! There are hardly any in downtown Toronto. If there were there wouldn't be so many homeless people and pan handlers there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinnimon Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's funny ... I just looked it up and apparently it's a passer-by from Alberta that shot it. here's the picture. RFS I heard he was found dead drunk from his own brew. While promoting it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's true!!!! There are hardly any in downtown Toronto. If there were there wouldn't be so many homeless people and pan handlers there.[/b] Free ranging bears might be a great way of managing the surplus urban population. It's all about balance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danc Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Back page news in Thunder Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's true!!!! There are hardly any in downtown Toronto. If there were there wouldn't be so many homeless people and pan handlers there.[/b] The only bears in Toronto are on Church st... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Back page news in Thunder Bay. enlighten us DanC. I would think a bear walking down yer down street would the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dara Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's true!!!! There are hardly any in downtown Toronto. If there were there wouldn't be so many homeless people and pan handlers there.[/b] A bear could never survive in downtown Toronto. Too many people are armed and would shoot it on sight. As far as the London bear goes, I see no need to have shot it. They could have just watched it and it would have wandered away sooner or later. just don't feed it. Thats how they tell us to do it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dara Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 enlighten us DanC. I would think a bear walking down yer down street would the norm. I see them just about every day going to work. I work on an Indian Reserve though. It may be different in your neck of the woods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icedude Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 That's funny ... I just looked it up and apparently it's a passer-by from Alberta that shot it. here's the picture. RFS man i love this place--Randy from Sturgeon!--did you ask TJ if you could use that shot without my written permission? yah--didn't think so--lol good stuff guys Drifter_016--got the vote in--had to register Dave--that sucks- Be Kind to the Bears-Bear Wise--local COPS--911-- or--1-866-514-BEAR Don't Feed the Bears Randy from Sturgeon TTY 705-945-7641 bears.mnr.gov.on.ca Have a humouros evening gentlemen ID1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 As far as the London bear goes, I see no need to have shot it. They could have just watched it and it would have wandered away sooner or later. just don't feed it. Thats how they tell us to do it here. Right on. We keep being told how to 'bear-proof" ourselves. Time to start applying that kind of public education in Southern Ontario instead of shooting the poor critters. Some people are fond of quoting to us here in the North, "The bears were there before you were." Well the bears were in S. Ont. before the big crush of people too. (Or, as they are also fond of telling us, the cormorant explosion on Nipissing is just a case of a species reclaiming its traditional range) Personally I think every nuisance bear trapped in Northern Ontario should be distributed by a lottery system to a Southern Ontario county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Personally I think every nuisance bear trapped in Northern Ontario should be distributed by a lottery system to a Southern Ontario county. Starting with Queens Park!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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