Hahaha. So when these people intrude into a bear's territory (probably wanting to 'get in touch with nature' or some such idiocy), it wanders into their camp at night, and looks through their stuff. The kid wakes up, panics like an idiot, antagonises the bear further by hitting it in the face, then commits the cardinal sin of running away. Why in the blue f**k wern't these kids instructed on how to rationally deal with a bear encounter?? They were 'emotionally troubled youths'? Yeah, 'mentally troubled youths' too. Why was this bear punished for the transgressions of a handful of ignorant, cowardly and weak humans? This makes me sick.
Taste for blood?? ... what a load of horses**t. A bear is a predator, of course it has a taste for blood!
I mean, what the hell do people expect from the wilderness? The wilderness is a WILD place! It's the
WILDerness!! It's not supposed to be safe and snug and soft and cuddly like civilisation. If you venture out there, you respect the forces at work in the wilderness' ecosystem! Too many people think of it as some sort of nice vacation spot that they can tromp all over, soak in a few nice views, then go back to their joe-jobs in the concrete hives they call home.
She had a taste for blood? Well so too do the 'officials' that needlessly killed her it seems. But the demands of the rich city-dwelling vacationers rule all...
Well, next time they want to 'get away from it all' and 'get in touch with nature' we should strip them naked and leave them alone and gunless out in that Alaskan wilderness, and let nature take its course... if they survive, maybe they will abandone their urban self-importance and garner a new respect for harshness of the wildlands... and if they don't, well, we can always just 'put them down', because they'll probably have a taste for blood by then....
[ 04-30-2004, 08:10 AM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]