Hibernating Bear Chased Off With Country Music

[hlthe2b]

I couldn't resist that headline....Sorry country music fans.....LOL)

Hibernating Bear Chased Off With Country Music
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/hibernating-bear-chased-o_n_820299.html?ir=Denver

It seems some animals just can't stand our music.

Officials from the Colorado Division of Wildlife managed to wake and shoo a bear that was hibernating on Boulder Community Hospital property in an unusual way: by playing country-western music. --snip--

Jennifer Churchill, spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, said officers feel confident that the bear -- which was awake by the time they arrived and seemed to be in good health -- will be able to find another safe place nearby to hibernate for the rest of the winter.

[DJ13]

1. Doesnt that violate both animal cruelty laws, and the Geneva Convention regarding torture?

[hlthe2b]

2. I'm sort of curious which performer(s) they chose...

But, I have developed new appreciation for bears (or at least this particular bear) and their judgment. :rofl:

[Sonoman]

6. Me, too...

Maybe Toby Keith?

Sonoman

[El Supremo]

8. Slim Whitman!

[Love Bug]

9. Bwah! That was my first thought!

After all, it worked in "Mars Attacks"!

[Oldtimeralso]

20. No, Boxcar Willie!

With a Ginsju knife.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Nah. That would be Disco.

[Dawson Leery]

19. LOL!

[SidDithers]

4. Good thing they didn't play it backwards...nt

Sid

[Sonoman]

5. Toby Keith? nt

[Blue-Jay]

7. They didn't have a pointy stick?

[woo me with science]

10. Well, that blows away an old stereotype.

[Arugula Latte]

11. There was only so much he could bear.

*rimshot*

[Canuckistanian]

12. Boxcar Willie has been known to cause small vertebrates to commit suicide

So please - be CAREFUL with country music in the wild.

[customerserviceguy]

13. If they wanted to kill him, they'd have used rap n/t

[Recursion]

14. The cool part of being from the south is that I like country and rap...

I'd say if they wanted to drive the bears to suicide they'd play the Flogging Decembrists or whatever all those identically cloned "indie" bands are.

[Incitatus]

18. idk, the bear might have eaten them for that. nt

[marybee]

15. I can't do country either, don't blame the bear.

na

[marmar]

16. I'm with Yogi.......

:yoiks:

[slampoet]

17. That poor bear.