City of Toronto to reintroduce black bears into the Don Valley

Jinentonix

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"For the most part black bears want to keep to themselves, I doubt they will be concerned about people rollerblading."
Is this idiot for reals? Yeah, bears never have cubs, or mate, or wander into town for an easy meal.
 

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I say add Lakeside Park as the next release project.

WTF is Fort York without black bears?

Just another tourist trap just beyond the range of Yankee cannons.

Is this idiot for reals? Yeah, bears never have cubs, or mate, or wander into town for an easy meal.

Like what? Go for salad in the beaches? Have you tried Cirque de Poulet down there? If I were a bear hungry for chicken I'd be all over their dumpster. Even that burger joint were everyone yells. Good burgers.
 

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Like what? Go for salad in the beaches? Have you tried Cirque de Poulet down there? If I were a bear hungry for chicken I'd be all over their dumpster. Even that burger joint were everyone yells. Good burgers.
Uh, Don Valley is surrounded by residential and light commercial areas. It's in the middle of Toronto and North York FFS. Bears just love easy access trash bins.
 

petros

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All the better. It's ecofriendly food waste removal. Why leave it to racoons?

Do you want to live in harmony with nature or not. Yeah there are risks. I have bears, coons(not Kanye type), coyotes, cougars, lynx, foxes, skunks trout, salmon and massive banana slugs living in harmony with me.

Why can't TO?
 

Jinentonix

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All the better. It's ecofriendly food waste removal. Why leave it to racoons?

Do you want to live in harmony with nature or not. Yeah there are risks. I have bears, coons(not Kanye type), coyotes, cougars, lynx, foxes, skunks trout, salmon and massive banana slugs living in harmony with me.

Why can't TO?
Because it's unlikely all that wildlife isn't living in the middle of a friggin huge metropolitan area.
Like I said, if the nature loving hippies in Revelstoke can't figure it out, I have grave doubts that a bunch of people living in a concrete jungle who know dick-all about wildlife will figure it out any time soon. I also doubt it'll take long before the first moron runs across a cub, can't see the mother, decides to approach the cub and next thing you know they'll have to send someone out to kill 2 bears.


UGH! I just noticed that this is satire.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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What a goddam stupid idea. Considering the average city dweller is f*cking clueless when it comes to wildlife, I have a nasty feeling there's going to be some dead black bears over this because of morons who'll do stuff like leave their garbage out in unsecured trash bins.
If the granola munching, nature loving hippies of Revelstoke can't figure it out, I doubt the people in the Don Valley area will clue in.
And this would be a bad thing. . . how, exactly?

Think of it as evolution in action.
 

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bears should not eat tainted meat
makes them taste nasty when they are harvested
 

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Our raccoons are like little bears, anyway except that they can also pick locks, crack safes.
 

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and when they learn to rip dumpsters apart
look the hell out
time to move to bear country to be safe
 

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Bears die. People die. Sometimes in unpleasant ways (actually, I can't think of a pleasant way to die).

Circle of life. Hoop of the World. Hey-yah-na-na hey-yah hey-yah.

No, there is no pleasant way to die, but there are less unpleasant ones.

I figure the 'best way would be to fall out of a plane on a hot summer day from a height that is low enough for comfort in the outside air but high enough to make a quick splatter out of me on impct. I hear though that the halal slaughter method leads to pretty quick unconsciousness too.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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No, there is no pleasent way to die, but there are less unpleasant ones.

I figure the 'best way would be to fall out of a plane on a hot summer day from a height that is low enough for comfort in the outside air but high enough to make a quick splatter out of me on impct. I hear though that the halal slaughter method leads to pretty quick unconsciousness too.
Gettin' shot by a jealous husband works for me.