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Cohasset's ursine problem could soon be Hingham's
By adamg on Mon, 06/19/2023 - 2:27pm
Cohasset Police posted a photo of the bear for which an officer blocked off North Main Street this afternoon to protect both it and drivers. Police add: "He's heading toward Hingham now."
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Magoo sez
What a snuggly wiggly wittle cutesy mcsnuggles. Magoo.
He's headed for Nantasket
On a humid day you can still smell the cotton candy from Paragon Park.
he looks so happy though
Stay out of Rozzie.
Seriously, we need to talk about...
...getting "adorable" back into the rotation.
Is this the same bear
that was in Arlington last week?
Or Newton?
.
Lilacs
Are those lilacs in the background? He’s probably happily drunk with the scent of lilacs. They should lure him down to the banks of the Charles in Cambridge or Brighton, which are rich in honeysuckle. Sometimes when I’m kayaking along the bank I wander into a cloud of scent so heavy and sweet it would make him want to lay down and sleep away half the summer.
Problem
Why is he someone’s problem?
Bears and humans don't tend to coexist very well
Ultimately its a pretty big predator that's also pretty smart and could be a real danger to humans and their pets.
If this bear gets used to hanging out around humans and even looking for them as a source of food (via trash, bird feeders, people deliberately feeding them, etc), it vastly increases the chance that at some point it will break into someone's home or car or even attack someone, at which point there's nothing that can be done other than to put it down.
This exactly
A fed bear is a dead bear. That's just how it always ends.
You left out the big one
Anyone raised in my generation knows that picnic baskets are the single biggest cause of an interaction between a human and a bear.
Yes, but
Yogi is a brown bear.
He shouldn't be, but he is
What fungwah said.
If this were Franconia NH, no big deal. But it isn't. These are relatively densely populated areas where there will eventually be a conflict with a human. Yes, the poor bear is just trying to live and eat and should be able to continue doing that, except for our panicky and litigious society. I have no problem with the bear, others do.
It would still be a deal
I have family that have lived in bear zones of NH and they have had fairly strict rules and stout garbage storage and a lot of ways to prevent bears from being fed by humans - both on purpose and by other means.
It is a big enough deal to require infrastructure and, often, fines by municipalities and by condo associations.
Anybody Else?
Did anybody else breeze past this headline before their morning coffee and wonder--for a split second--why Cohasset had such a urine problem?
friday 6pm ch5 news reports
friday 6pm ch5 news reports a bear was seen on rte140 foxboro close to maria's house, may be heading to stadium to suit up vs patriots