kingsnation
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I will totally enter the Rock Band draft if they are eligible.

Good for you!Today is my last day of work until I start Grad School in August! Yay!!!
Where do you live?
There's a black bear in our neck of the woods - literally - and he's discovered the joys of garbage can fine dining. The dude weighs around 450 lbs. so when I hear a lot of commotion in the garbaga cans in the middle of the night, I figure he's just making his rounds...and I'm not going to stop him. Living in the middle of a national forest, I respect the rights of the critters who truly belong here but I still get chills when I look out the window at one of them.
That seriously happens sooooo rarely. They think that she was attacked because she was messing with a cub. Humans kill way more mountain lions every year, and they are constantly infringing on their habitat. Leave the poor lions alone, it's like a defender in basketball, they have a right to be somewhere, and they were here first! Sure they sound scary, but they are not out to get you...I saw a good sized mountain lion last night (I'd estimate it was about 100lbs). It ran out in front of my car as I was driving home from my buddy's house at ~11:30 PM.
I'd have to say, of all the animals around here, the mountain lions concern me the most. Bears just want to be left alone, same goes for rattlesnakes and black widows...but mountain lions are born killers. They wait for you to pass by and then jump on your back and bite through the vertebrae in your neck. When I was in 2nd grade, one of the kids on my baseball team had his mom killed and partially eaten by a mountain lion. They don't mess around. I lost a cat to one once, and we (my father and I) went hunting for him, but he was nowhere to be found.
That seriously happens sooooo rarely. They think that she was attacked because she was messing with a cub. Humans kill way more mountain lions every year, and they are constantly infringing on their habitat. Leave the poor lions alone, it's like a defender in basketball, they have a right to be somewhere, and they were here first! Sure they sound scary, but they are not out to get you...
The accounts in the paper said that investigators theorize that the lion surprised her by sneaking within 20' behind her on the tight trail and then ambushing Schoener, knocking her 30' down an 80° slope. Indications are she already was badly wounded but briefly fought the animal there before the lion finished the kill.
You go into wildlife areas, you risk being attacked by wildlife. It's a fact of life and is actually pretty darn rare. Go in to the ocean, a shark could get you.
Life is not risk free and in these cases people are going into the animal's territory most of the time. There are cases where animals actually enter urban/sburban areas, but not often.
A person I know lives on a remote ranch. "Pets" disappear pretty often, if left outside. Large birds of prey will just snarf up the little kitty cat. Wolves or coyotes will certainly kill bigger pets, as well as the samll ones.
Which animal is the most deadly to humans? Other humans, intentionally or not. By a huge margin. I'm regularly scared out of my wits commuting on highway 99.![]()
Okay, now I'm just getting a little tired of Brother Bear and his nightly sojourns through this area in his hunt for sustenance. I was sitting out on my back porch, enjoying the beautiful night, and happened to see movement out of the corner of my eye... Sure enough, it was the bear, ambling along. In all the years I've lived up here I've never had to deal with one of the ursine critters quite so close to home. I don't think I like it...
I'm putting in a call to the ranger station in the morning. Find out what, if anything, they can do to persuade the giant furry beast to move on down the road...
Summertime...Why is gas prices going up. Its now $2.99 for super premium.
Why is gas prices going up. Its now $2.99 for super premium.
Exactly. Gas prices always go up just in time for summer vacations. Same around holidays.Summertime...
Yay!Whew! My car just passed its smog test. It was barely under the max allowed at 15 mph, but was way fine at the 25 mph. How the heck does that work? This was only in the NO test (EGR system).
But, it did pass. And since I cannot afford car work right now...Hurray!!
Okay, now I'm just getting a little tired of Brother Bear and his nightly sojourns through this area in his hunt for sustenance. I was sitting out on my back porch, enjoying the beautiful night, and happened to see movement out of the corner of my eye... Sure enough, it was the bear, ambling along. In all the years I've lived up here I've never had to deal with one of the ursine critters quite so close to home. I don't think I like it...
I'm putting in a call to the ranger station in the morning. Find out what, if anything, they can do to persuade the giant furry beast to move on down the road...
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What, may I ask, did the Ranger tell you? The fall before last, when I was having my bear issues (a mother and her cubs were going on my front porch), I put some calls in to see what I could do, and they basically told that, if I felt seriously threatened, that they could give me a tag/permit (can't remember which, it's been a while) to shoot the bear, but I wasn't about to do that. There's no way I was going to kill a mother bear unless it was life or death for me, and going through my garbage doesn't qualify.