Da Bears

September 6, 2007

Anybody who thinks we have a "bear problem" is nuts. What Mammoth has is a slew of idiot people who create the problem themselves.

We've got lots of people who dump and run in the middle of the night, leaving trash bags next to -- not in -- dumpsters all over town.

We've got restaurant people who are careless with their trash.

We've got rube tourists who actually feed the bears, hoping for a picture they can take home or just for the thrill of seeing a 400-pound creature.

At the Lakes Basin, we've got bait fishermen who bring to the shores coolers stuffed with food, and if they leave that site for even five minutes, our Harvard-educated bears descend on the coolers, and sometimes that ain't pretty.

Some second homeowners whose estates are near condo complexes have no problem using the condos' trash bins, making them overflow.

Plus, we've got some visitors -- a lot, actually -- who have no idea how to open bear-proof bins, so they just leave their garbage by the side of the dumpster. People-proof dumpsters.

Aiyee! A "bear problem?" We don't have one. We have a people problem.

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