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2004-12-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-
French hunter claims 'self-defence' in bear shoot
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Posted by Steve 2004-12-07 11:40:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The two remaining indigenous bears are both males.

It's going to get ugly in the Pyrenees
Posted by Dragon Fly  2004-12-07 12:05:25 PM||   2004-12-07 12:05:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 DF - LOL!
Posted by .com 2004-12-07 12:10:09 PM||   2004-12-07 12:10:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I would agree it was self-defense. After all,any bear has a decided intellectual edge over any Frenchman ;)
Posted by Stephen 2004-12-07 12:11:17 PM||   2004-12-07 12:11:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bears--why do they eat us?
Posted by Mike  2004-12-07 12:16:57 PM||   2004-12-07 12:16:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 a bear charges you and you shoot it in the side...nice trick
Posted by Frank G  2004-12-07 12:22:16 PM||   2004-12-07 12:22:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 In the spirit of Anglo-Gallic reconcillation I move that we air drop 48 pairs of silver backs into said mountainous area. Think how much more fun the Pyranees Stages would be in the next TDF.
Posted by Shipman 2004-12-07 12:35:20 PM||   2004-12-07 12:35:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "...I had no choice. It was the bear or me."

Wait-you mean talking with the bear didn't work? Or respecting his opinion?
Posted by Jules 187 2004-12-07 12:51:20 PM||   2004-12-07 12:51:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lol! How, um, unilateral. The poor bear even had a name and was beloved by all! Phreakin' Cowboy. Lynch 'im.
Posted by .com 2004-12-07 12:55:03 PM||   2004-12-07 12:55:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 lynch im? Hey, the cubs gotta eat, ya know....
Posted by Frank G  2004-12-07 12:56:42 PM||   2004-12-07 12:56:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 What on earth was he doing hunting in the range of a highly endangered species? Do we allow such things on this side of the pond? I know the fine for killing a member of an endangered (or even merely threatened) species is set extremely high, por encouragement les autres (my apologies for the bad spelling. I took a two month language course at the public library when I was seven, and had only got as far as Flemish in the one year we lived in Brussels).
Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-07 1:59:00 PM||   2004-12-07 1:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 you guys are bring tears to my eyes.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-12-07 3:18:41 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-12-07 3:18:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mucky, that's cuz All your base are belong to us.
Remember, No tears for bears!
Posted by Sobiesky 2004-12-07 3:23:41 PM||   2004-12-07 3:23:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 If this were in the states, 45 lawsuits would have already been filed on behalf of the cubs. This Frog would be working for the bears for the rest of his natural life.
Posted by RWV 2004-12-07 3:28:00 PM||   2004-12-07 3:28:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Feme La Bush! Au Voir** Andre`a.
Posted by Andrea  2004-12-07 6:52:24 PM|| [http://Associated Press today]  2004-12-07 6:52:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Feme La Bush! Au Voir** Andre`a.
Posted by Andrea  2004-12-07 6:53:35 PM|| [http://ajacksonwesternmass@Yahoo.com]  2004-12-07 6:53:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Marqueze added the anger of environmentalists over the incident was misplaced. "I'd like to see what all those who have called me a murderer would have done in my place."

This is what a good moonbat naturalist would have done: "http://www.bcwf.bc.ca/s=123/bcw1065647048539/
Posted by SC88 2004-12-07 10:33:21 PM||   2004-12-07 10:33:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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