Comments on: The Bear Whisperer http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/ The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:54:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-281746 Alex Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:27:12 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-281746 @quack: I didn't have to register with LA Times to view it. Perhaps the website randomly asks people to register (or do so after X number of pageviews). @quack: I didn't have to register with LA Times to view it. Perhaps the website randomly asks people to register (or do so after X number of pageviews).

]]> By: quack http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-281667 quack Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:36:09 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-281667 Why publish a story/link when it requires you register with la times to view?? bad form neatorama Why publish a story/link when it requires you register with la times to view?? bad form neatorama

]]> By: Cedar http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-280922 Cedar Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:56:52 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-280922 I say yay! Go, Steve! I think we can co-exist with bears without driving them out of every square inch of what has always been their territory. Give them space to live, and use methods that they understand (loud noises, rubber bullets...) to keep them out of our living rooms and don't draw them in with our garbage, and both we and the bears can survive. I live in New Mexico, where we still have a lot of wilderness for the bears and I've had some awesome encounters -- in open land where I see them from a distance and we each go our own way, and once in a narrow canyon where he was between me and my only way out. In this case, he climbed up the canyon side to let me pass. They aren't out there to get us -- they are just trying to survive, and I think they have every right to do so. Grizzlies are a different matter than black bears, and the Grizzly Man did push the limits to what was obviously a fool-hardy degree (if the goal is to survive -- though the truth is, none of us get out alive), but I bet that if you could interview him in whatever after-life there may be, he'd still be smiling about it and have no regrets. You want to avoid bears? Move to NYC and surround yourself with muggers and gangsters -- I'd rather the bears. I say yay! Go, Steve! I think we can co-exist with bears without driving them out of every square inch of what has always been their territory. Give them space to live, and use methods that they understand (loud noises, rubber bullets...) to keep them out of our living rooms and don't draw them in with our garbage, and both we and the bears can survive.

I live in New Mexico, where we still have a lot of wilderness for the bears and I've had some awesome encounters -- in open land where I see them from a distance and we each go our own way, and once in a narrow canyon where he was between me and my only way out. In this case, he climbed up the canyon side to let me pass. They aren't out there to get us -- they are just trying to survive, and I think they have every right to do so.

Grizzlies are a different matter than black bears, and the Grizzly Man did push the limits to what was obviously a fool-hardy degree (if the goal is to survive -- though the truth is, none of us get out alive), but I bet that if you could interview him in whatever after-life there may be, he'd still be smiling about it and have no regrets.

You want to avoid bears? Move to NYC and surround yourself with muggers and gangsters -- I'd rather the bears.

]]> By: Scot http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-280631 Scot Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:17:03 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-280631 I see his future. He's coming out the back end of a bear. I see his future. He's coming out the back end of a bear.

]]> By: l'elk! http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-280589 l'elk! Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:48:51 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-280589 you mean the grizzly man? nah, that guy was just crazy... you mean the grizzly man? nah, that guy was just crazy...

]]> By: L.B. Jeffries http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/comment-page-1/#comment-280435 L.B. Jeffries Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:15:01 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/11/07/the-bear-whisperer/#comment-280435 Didn't someone already try to do this and get eaten by a bear? It's cool to think you're dominating a giant bear and all...but I don't think you're really fooling it. Didn't someone already try to do this and get eaten by a bear? It's cool to think you're dominating a giant bear and all...but I don't think you're really fooling it.

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