Saturday, October 18, 2008

Don't Chase Bears


I am now a firm believer that some people should never be allowed to breed, thus continuing their line of inbred stupidity. Case in point: the most stupidest thing I have ever seen.
I was in a national park today, checking out the changing leaves(see pics below), and the park was just jam-packed with tons of people. Bumper to bumper traffic, actually. At one point the road was clogged with people yanking their
cars to the side of the road and passengers jumping out of their side of the vehicle with cameras dangling from their necks; racing to join the crowd at the base of a steeply wooded incline. Once at the base, the passengers would frantically wave their arms, indicating the drivers should pull over.
In fact, people were starting to pour into the woods and run up the steep slope (the type where you need to hang onto saplings to keep your balance) cameras to their faces. I, of course, wanted to see what the big deal was about, so I too, jumped out of my vehicle.
When I reached the crowd, I caught site of the rump of a big ol' black bear. Being of a sound mind, my first thought was "What am I doing out here ticking off a bear?" I backed away from the edge of the base and jogged back across the road. But I soon realized that I was perfectly safe - the idiots who were scrambling and actually chasing after the bear on the slope would prove to be easy targets should the bear turn and teach these fools some respect for nature.
I had to be able to outrun about 50 idiots sliding around on a leaf-covered slope - no problem. Who in their right mind would
chase a bear, armed with a camera, in the bear's natural habitat? Realizing the hiliarity of the situation, I quickly began rooting for the bear to turn and maul someone - just so I could get some good snaps of natural selection at work.

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