Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:26:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Ultimate ... Bears
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I believe I posted this last year.  Not me in the pic, though.
http://picasaweb.google.com/sandwichhead/BearAttack?authkey=Gv1sRgCOqytMWH9oa1qAE&feat=directlink
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'
73 Beetle


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net> wrote:

> Al,
>
> There is more to this story than is told in the article and it is biased to
> make the man sound as the victim here.  For example well after he claims to
> have stopped feeding the bears he and/or his friends were purchasing and
> transporting huge quantities of dog food out there.  There are also others
> living in the area to consider, teaching these bears to expect certain
> things from people puts the bears and people in danger.  I have seen the
> videos, followed the printed news and while I do not know the man I do know
> others that do.  It is a small State in some ways and we do not need six
> degrees of seperation here, one or two will usually do.  What he is doing is
> endangering the bears and others that come in contact with them.  You can
> peacefully coexist with bears but they are still wild animals and should
> stay that way.  He has known all along that he was breaking the law and it
> has caught up to him.
>
> Mark in AK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:57 am
> Subject: Re: Ultimate ... Bears
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> > Fryday.
> >
> > Once again, gummint intervention where it is not desired or
> > needed.  Where
> > did you say he lived, downtown anchorage where his bearly tolerable
> > interactions place others in danger?  Or maybe it was downtown
> > Fairbanks?No?  Oh, you say, just a mere 50 miles north of
> > Anchorage, in a remote
> > cabin, wherein lives a 70yr old iconoclast who happens to like
> > bears.  Nice
> > to know the last frontier is friendly enough that the county
> > mounties have
> > spare time and resources to harass Charlie so his actions will not
> > pose a
> > threat to the law abiding locals in his neighborhood.   That DFG
> > yahoo needs
> > a real job.  Molesting the feeble and infirm is easy pickins for
> > such a
> > drooling idiot as Sean Farley.  Note that Alaska does have it's
> > share of
> > drooling idiots.  Hunting wolves from the air with shotguns for
> > sport?  So
> > you kin have braggin rights about your prowess as a man?  Droolin
> > idiots.
> > If Charlie wants to scritch beartummies at his age so be it.  If
> > Sean-the-badge and his hench have no more to do than what is
> > pointed out in
> > the article from the Vermont paper via AP he needs a real job as
> > do his
> > mounties.  I suspect they have quelled all the crime and other DFG
> > offensesinside that 50 mile radius or maybe it's just easier to
>  > pick on retirees.
> > Wonder if they pulled a Blanding on 'em.
> >
> > One of these times Sean-the-badge is gonna run up against a cane
> > rattlin ol
> > snot who's gonna bite back or shoot back.  "Honest yer honor, we
> > gots lots
> > of bears roun heah and with that black outfit and my old eyes I
> > wuz jus
> > plain skeered it was a bear that's why I shot em a few times."
> >
> > Lemme tell ya sonny, a bear can find your toothpaste in the
> > vanagon zippity
> > quick, even if you're in there.  So when she decides to move in,
> > you best be
> > movin out and on...
> >
> > Wilderness is where it is legal for the local residents to kill
> > and eat
> > you.   Oh it's you, Bob.  Sorry, no offence intended.
> >
> > Former resident of Big Delta AK.
> >
> > Pensioner
> >
> > Now on to tires, rattlin compressors, and news from the front.
> >
> >
> > On 8/27/09, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > http://animal.discovery.com/tv/stranger-among-bears/and
> > > http://www.reformer.com/huntingandfishing/ci_12438394
> > >
> > > Wonder how long it would take any bear to get into a vanagon if
> > it wanted
> > > to?
> > > It didn't take the State Troopers too long to get into Charley's
> > yard.>
> > > I'm planning a Westy AK trip next summer for 3 months.
> > > Don't plan on feeding any bears, or being lunch.
> > >
> > > b
> > >
> >
>