# A colorado woman gets killed by bears..... state kills first 3 bears they find **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245 "2021-05-02T21:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/1 "2021-05-02T21:04:31Z")
ok heres the story " > **[Colorado woman dies after apparent bear attack](https://www.aol.com/news/colorado-woman-dies-apparent-bear-150944965-172507087.html)** > > A 39-year-old woman was found dead in southwestern Colorado after an apparent bear attack, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said. CPW officers responded and observed signs of consumption on the body along with bear scat and hair at the scene,... OK yes, I’m sympathetic that she was killed and eaten but the state and federal fish and game dept’s response was to use hunting/tracking dogs to come across the first bears they find and put them down then say “well test to see if it was them later” couldn’t have they sedated them then run the test and then put them down if they were positive? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/2 "2021-05-02T21:25:44Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > couldn’t have they sedated them then run the test and then put them down if they were positive? Unfortunately, sedating bears is risky and dangerous for the animal, and not without risk for the officers. Not that it can’t be done and it often is, but it’s certainly not an operation taken lightly. And I’m not sure how you test the bears to see if they were involved without killing them and examining the stomach contents. Once that happened it would have been cruel to leave the cubs to fend for themselves. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/3 "2021-05-02T21:30:51Z")
Don’t scientists have to examine a bear’s stomach contents to determine if it killed a human? That necessitates a necropsy. And one-year-old cubs aren’t going to survive in the wild without their mother. If it is determined that she consumed the woman, putting down the cubs as well might be the only thing they could do. It’s not as if they killed three bears at random. If the mother bear killed the woman, and the cubs ate some of the flesh, too, they could pose a danger to people. ETA - ninja’d by **Telemark!** 🤬 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/4 "2021-05-02T21:38:19Z")
They were going to use DNA left on the victim’s body and from the bears to determine if they had the right bear. From the bear likely means from the bear’s stomach although I guess they might find some of the woman’s blood on the bear. And they probably do have the right bear, black bears are pretty solitary and it’s unlikely another one would be in the area where that mother and her cubs were. But the story lacks detail, don’t really know what they consider ‘nearby’ to be. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/5 "2021-05-02T21:57:27Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Unfortunately, sedating bears is risky and dangerous for the animal, As opposed the humane alternative of killing them? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/6 "2021-05-02T23:11:24Z")
It was probably a boating accident. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/7 "2021-05-02T23:14:59Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It was probably a boating accident. - Or it could be a land shark, not a bear. “Candygram”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/8 "2021-05-03T00:06:04Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It was probably a boating accident. Well, this is not a boat accident! It wasn’t any propeller! It wasn’t any coral reef! And it wasn’t Jack the Ripper! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/9 "2021-05-03T00:17:02Z")
Look fellas, let’s be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/10 "2021-05-03T00:22:44Z")
What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/11 "2021-05-03T00:43:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > As opposed the humane alternative of killing them? If you’re going to kill the mother, which it looks like they had to do in order to determine if they had gotten the right bear, then there’s not a lot options for dealing with the cubs. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/12 "2021-05-03T00:52:26Z")
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/13 "2021-05-03T02:39:16Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > If you’re going to kill the mother, which it looks like they had to do in order to determine if they had gotten the right bear, then there’s not a lot options for dealing with the cubs. I just thought the phrasing was a little off: “Unfortunately, sedating bears is risky and dangerous for the animal…” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/14 "2021-05-03T02:51:50Z")
That coyote I killed the other day had Kangaroo on his breath. His last fucking breath. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/15 "2021-05-03T02:53:53Z")
A colorado woman gets killed by bears…… state kills first 3 bears they find Isn’t that what the settlers used to do with Indians? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/16 "2021-05-03T02:56:42Z")
Sounds to me like the Bear Patrol is working like a charm. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/17 "2021-05-03T03:27:27Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > was killed and eaten One of the perpetual mems on dis 'ere message board is the lethality of Australian wildlife. But with the exception of crocodiles, of which the US has many more more, nothing on this continent kills you to eat you. They kill you because you’ve ticked them off. Our native variant of 2nd amendment solutions. Methinks the average red-blooded 'merkin patriot would be more sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/18 "2021-05-03T04:17:10Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > One of the perpetual mems on dis 'ere message board is the lethality of Australian wildlife. But with the exception of crocodiles, of which the US has many more more, nothing on this continent kills you to eat you. About 250,000 crocodiles in Australia vs about 1000 in the US. Australia would seem to have the edge in population. The big predator in the US is the alligator, with about 5 million. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/19 "2021-05-03T04:35:58Z")
> **[Human remains found in 2 of 3 euthanized bears suspected in deadly attack of...](https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEPirAzJiESfMYT7ysM-b6UIqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowz4z_CjCqhPgCMIWn5AU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)** > > DENVER (KDVR) -- Human remains were found in two of the three black bears euthanized after being found nearby the location of a dead woman near Durango. The 39-year-old woman took her dogs for a walk on Friday night in Trimble, which is near Durango.... ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/20 "2021-05-03T06:20:46Z")
well they were guilty after all and would of died anyways… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245.md?page=2)