Fun with Canadian bears
Rose and Doug Waldron set up a trampoline for their children in the backyard complete with the safety net around the perimeter to keep the children from flying off and crashing on the ground. One day this week Rose looked out at the backyard of their BC home and saw two youngsters playing on the trampoline, but they were too heavy for the frame. They were young black bears who liked the bouncy platform and decided to push each other around on it. Her video is below. “So much for that trampoline,” Doug Waldron, said the damage to the trampoline’s netting and platform were minimal, but the weight of the animals caused the fiberglass frame supporting the trampoline to break. “It’s good enough for somebody 150 pounds or less, I’m sure, but having 800 pounds of bear on your trampoline didn’t help things.” He said the bears are frequent visitors to the neighborhood, which is near the Coquitlam River. “That’s their bathing spot and their fishing hole. It’s their country,” he said. “They can come and go as they please. They don’t bother anybody.” Unless you have a trampoline
At the other end of the country in Newfoundland there was another bear story of a different color. Bobbi Stevens’ said she was lying on her bed reading inside her home when her dog came over, jumped on her and scampered off, “So I thought there was somebody at the door,” she added. She heard some noise outside Bobbi opened the top part of her door and looked out, only to be greeted by a huge, grinning white ball of fur staring her in the face. She quickly snapped the door shut and stayed inside waiting until it left. The large white female Polar Bear wandered around the porch and decided to climb the snowbank next to the house and then got on top of the roof to get a better view of the land. Bobbie huddled inside hearing only the creaking from above. Her neighbor’s security camera captured the action in the link below. The bear did not find anything interesting and wandered off the roof and back into the woods. Polar bears, measuring 7 to 8 feet long, are the largest carnivorous land mammals on Earth. Bobbie has been busy all week fielding interviews from various journalists, her experience halfway around the globe was, in a way, surreal. “It was amazing. I think I was numb or something,” she said. “I mean, after it happened, it’s sort of spooky.” One good aspect of this neighborhood, with the bears visiting, they don’t get many burglars.
Grin and Bear it:
Who should carry the bear mace when hiking with friends?
The slowest runner.
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Polar bears used to be brown, but through evolution, they turned white
because Police were shooting them.
What did the Polar Bear say to the Penguin?
Wait?!… Did you fly here?
April 19th Birthdays
1989 – Maria Sharapova, 1979 – Kate Hudson, 1968 – Ashley Judd, 1991 – Kim Chiu
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