They used a procedure knows as a Strike All Amendment where the entire language of the bill is replaced. They incorporated anti hunting provisions into the bill, and they sent it to the Judiciary Committee.
We've got a Swamp in Hartford every bit as dirty and deep at the one in Washington DC. And it needs draining just as badly!
Someone is going to be hurt or killed by a bear eventually.
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Like some here I fear it will take a few human maulings (hopefully not fatalities) to get enough people to realize that when you increase bear/human contact and throw in the well-meaning, but ignorant citizens who feed them it is inevitable that something tragic will happen.
All we can do is to continue to push our reps and work the crowd in the public sector that actually engages in critical thinking as more than an occasional hobby.
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Bear(s) With New Tricks Cornwall’s growing colony of Bears is displaying new skills as it adapts to the human colony that shares its turf. This spring the bears waking up from hibernation took on a new human-related problem. Last summer they seemed interested in houses where there’s food and other interesting stuff. This spring it’s been cars.
Matt **** reports that just before Easter his family brought home a “large, pungent pizza” in the back seat of their Acura sedan. Did the box leak a bit? Did grease get on hands that closed the car door? Somehow a bear got wind of the pepperoni and decided to investigate. What they found in the morning was an eviscerated Acura. The backseat had been ripped out and dragged 50 yards where they found it, bent in a U-shape, at the foot of a tree. The back of the seat was torn out and the headrests mangled.
How did the bear get into the car in the first place? Trial and error at the handle with its heavenly pizza smell? Or do bears know about cars now as another place where humans have food?
B***** C***** has had similar thoughts since a bear (the same one?) got into her Subaru Impreza, parked at ***and ****’s house. She had left two bags of animal feed on the back seat. The bear appeared overnight and dragged one grain sack away about 50 yards and left it under a tree. Is this a clue that this might be the same bear? the car was not badly damaged but there were a lot of very muddy paw prints on the seats. The console between the front seats had been yanked open and its lid snapped apart.
The answer might be to lock our cars at night but that risks the fury of a thwarted bear who smells the french fries you dropped on the floor mat yesterday. As for convertibles, well, a bear’s claws will make short work of that ragtop.
He did bear hunts and was always storing bait, He had an old Ford Van that he wasn't running anymore parked at the end of the road going to the Lodge. He used to store Donuts and bread in there for bait. the bears would get on the roof trying to find a way in some of the bears were very heavy, so heavy they were collapsing the roof. They had most of the roof caved in almost to seat back level.
