# 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:** 2
**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, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/21 "2021-05-03T11:48:52Z")
True, it does read a little oddly. But since that was before we were sure that testing the bear required killing it I think it still holds together. 🙂 ---
**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, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/22 "2021-05-03T12:47:23Z")
And two out of three ain’t bad. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/23 "2021-05-03T13:14:03Z")
When I saw this story I thought of the SS shooting random townspeople after French partisans had ambushed a German patrol. ---
**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, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/24 "2021-05-03T13:59:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And two out of three ain’t bad. _Meatloaf Again???_ ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/25 "2021-05-03T14:03:40Z")
These were not random bears, they were tracked by dogs from the scene and were found to have eaten the lady. Bears get killed for no good reason at all, like so that some guy can feel like a big game hunter from the 1840’s. These bears actually killed and ate a woman. While I do feel sorrow for the bears, I would not compare their death to Nazi attacks on partisans. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/26 "2021-05-03T14:05:03Z")
A few years ago I chased a black bear out of our yard (it was eating bird seed and I didn’t want the feeder to get busted). Maybe I should have been more cautious. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/27 "2021-05-03T14:10:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Maybe I should have been more cautious. No. Better armed. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/28 "2021-05-03T14:11:23Z")
Seed feeders in bear country are an invitation for trouble. Bears will move from feeders to garbage cans and pets on leashes, and they are extremely difficult to get rid of without 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 3, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/29 "2021-05-03T14:11:31Z")
Loaded for bear? ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/30 "2021-05-03T14:12:04Z")
He went bearing only arms or with bare arms. Could have lost an arm. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/31 "2021-05-03T14:13:27Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > These were not random bears, they were tracked by dogs from the scene and were found to have eaten the lady. Bears get killed for no good reason at all, like so that some guy can feel like a big game hunter from the 1840’s. These bears actually killed and ate a woman. > > While I do feel sorrow for the bears, I would not compare their death to Nazi attacks on partisans. OK! Ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/32 "2021-05-03T14:16:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Seed feeders in bear country are an invitation for trouble. We aren’t really in “bear country”. I’ve seen three over the course of my lifetime. The one a few years ago led us to take down our feeders for a few weeks. ---
**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, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/33 "2021-05-03T14:18:43Z")
There’s a famous tale from 50 years ago or so about an off-duty park ranger and a tourist from Czechoslovakia being killed by a mating pair of black bears. They killed one of the bears and cut open the female to find the remains of the ranger. The posse concluded that the Czech must be in the male. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/34 "2021-05-03T14:23:16Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Better armed. But then I’d have a dead black bear in my yard. I’d almost rather be eaten. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/35 "2021-05-03T14:41:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’d almost rather be eaten. At this point in the thread, it would be not so much a tragedy as mauled by cliché. ---
**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, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/36 "2021-05-03T14:45:28Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > Maybe I should have been more cautious. > > No. Better armed. Support the right to arm bears! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/37 "2021-05-03T14:55:40Z")
I thought the right to [bear arms](https://schumanchu.eu/html/r1/r1_00141bear~arms.html) was sacred in the USA. > [@cochrane](#): > > Support the right to arm bears! Proof that language is not a commutative operation. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/38 "2021-05-03T15:04:01Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > 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” It was either that, or dust off and nuke the site from orbit. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/39 "2021-05-03T15:04:43Z")
This is a good reminder for my Wife and I to remain vigilant. Last fall we each ended up with a bear in our car. No damage. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245/40 "2021-05-03T16:17:39Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Bears get killed for no good reason at all Like these? Once a bear attacks a human for any reason, including defending cubs, it’s a sociopathic killer bear that must be exterminated so we can all feel safe. To be absolutely sure, slaughter all bears and their cubs within 500 miles of anyplace humans might conceivably go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-colorado-woman-gets-killed-by-bears-state-kills-first-3-bears-they-find/941245.md?page=3)