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Black Bear Up a Tree

A black bear climbed a tree. The tree was not in a suburb, more an un-walled hiking space. A concerned cell phone monitor caught the bear up a tree while it was being a bear up a tree. This cannot stand. A bear up a tree, almost near to us, we who jog, walk, or off-road near the very same kind of tree! The press are alerted. News trucks race to see a bear up a tree. Pundits posit humane euthanasia, some favor dope-filled blow guns, poles and nets. The bear cannot hear the news, for it is up a tree. An outraged dawn breaks. The bear is no longer up a tree, it has been spotted as definitely not up a tree! For days no black bear is seen climbing a tree, or even a nearby tree. News trucks race to be somewhere else.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 8/24/2019 4:23:00 PM
Hello Eric Ashford,I am hoping the bear got somewhere safe. Bears do like trees. Have a nice evening my friend.
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Date: 8/24/2019 4:42:00 PM
Hi Darlene, thanks for the comment. I think that that particular bear probably needed the exercise. She had put on weight recently, and there are few palates classes in the woods. Have a great evening!

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