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Dawn breaks, bear sleeps in Brookline
By adamg on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:41am
Da bear. Photo by Brookline Police.
UPDATE: Around 9:30, environmental police shot the bear with a tranquilizer. He ran up the tree, then, after the drug took effect, fell out of the tree, to be carted away to someplace a bit more rural.
The wandering, ambling bear fell asleep in a tree on leafy Pine Road, just off Hammond, which means it veered off a path that would have put it right at the Bertucci's in West Roxbury and could instead put it on a line for the Rte. 9 Star in search of some breakfast. Brookline Police tweeted at 7:36 this morning:
Officers on scene keeping quiet. Shhhh.
They then followed up with a couple of photos:
Black bear black bear what do you see? I see Brookline police looking at me.
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Comments
Fell out of the tree?
Did he survive unharmed?
Yes, he did
Police had set up this trampoline-ish thing, plus the branches slowed his fall. Then they packed him up with 480 lbs. of ice (from Brookline Ice and Coal) for a trip to, um, somewhere a bit more rural.
Photo
Tranquilized bear on the way to someplace quieter.
Does he..?
But did they get an answer to that vexing question...does a bear shit in Brookline?
Bruins Commercial
The Bruins already answered that question. A bear uses the Men's Room at the Garden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqLY2WLNqI&feature...
Yes, but...
...it doesn't stink ;-)
Bears and trees
I recall some old advice about keeping food away from a bear: "put it up in a tree."
Bears are getting smarter.
You actually hang it from a tree
As we can see, bears can climb trees pretty well. ;-) So, when you need to protect your food (and yourself), you throw some line over a branch and hang a sack with all your food including things like toothpaste. The bears will figure this all out someday. ;-)