# Dead bear draped in Obama signs dumped on campus **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841 "2008-10-21T02:11:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/1 "2008-10-21T02:11:21Z")
WHAT THE FUCK??? > [@](#): > > [Bear found dumped at WCU with Obama signs](http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881020067) > > CULLOWHEE – A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said. > > Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police. > > “It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” Johnson said. Another fine example of Starving Artist’s pined-for genteel civility. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/2 "2008-10-21T02:16:13Z")
Dammit! I said Bartlett pear! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/3 "2008-10-21T02:16:52Z")
Has suicide been ruled out? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/4 "2008-10-21T02:25:12Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Has suicide been ruled out? An armed bear? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/5 "2008-10-21T02:27:30Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > An armed bear? Its what the Second Amendment is all about! ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/6 "2008-10-21T02:30:10Z")
This is why the NRA needs to expand its membership to be more inclusive. Guns don’t kill bears, people. People kill bears. And also monkeys do [when they have a gun]. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/7 "2008-10-21T02:30:13Z")
I am going to hell, but the one comment about “if only the bear had agreed to a series of town hall meetings with the woodchuck, this might never have happened” was too funny. I am appalled at the stupidity of this killing. (75 pounds is a big “cub”, no?). Fairly obscure message with the Obama signs–not getting the connection there. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/8 "2008-10-21T02:51:11Z")
I’m not dead, and I don’t approve of this message. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/9 "2008-10-21T02:54:38Z")
Don’t forget, John McCain spent 5 1/2 years being unable to kill a bear. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/10 "2008-10-21T02:56:46Z")
I know bears are godless killing machines, but I had no idea they supported Obama. It just gives you chills. [What the flying fuck was the message here? How is the bear related to Obama exactly? It’s just a dead thing, but with the signs on, it’s… ugh. Stupid people shouldn’t attempt satire.] ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/11 "2008-10-21T02:58:23Z")
Well, bears are the number one threat to America… [THREAT DOWN!](http://www.trojanwire.com/football/images/colbert-bears-threatdown.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/12 "2008-10-21T02:58:37Z")
Maybe she couldn’t find a moose. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/13 "2008-10-21T03:08:18Z")
[hijack] > [@eleanorigby](#): > > (75 pounds is a big “cub”, no?). If it’s a Black Bear, it’s a little on the large side, but not outside typical juvenile range. Especially for a male. If it’s a Grizzly, it’s not even that large as a juvenile. It’s probably a Black Bear, as Grizzlies don’t tend to range that far east…[/hijack] I also suspect it was likely a Black Bear because of the Obama connection…it’s rather disgusting, but it’s the only way I can really make sense of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/14 "2008-10-21T03:12:35Z")
He’s not dead. He’s just pining for a Scandinavian-style social welfare system. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/15 "2008-10-21T03:17:05Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I also suspect it was likely a Black Bear because of the Obama connection…it’s rather disgusting, but it’s the only way I can really make sense of it all. I was thinking it was some sort of pro-hunting NRA type message, conceived by someone who was both very stupid and very drunk. Of course, it might just be some idiot trying to get in the papers and not really supposed to mean anything. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/16 "2008-10-21T03:30:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > … What the flying fuck was the message here? How is the bear related to Obama exactly? … Loath as I am to engage that part of my brain, here goes, a bear was the closest thing to a monkey/gorilla/ape these yahoos could find. Where did I put my brain bleach? CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/17 "2008-10-21T03:37:24Z")
Well, at least we know who was stealing all our yard signs. The bear couldn’t live with the guilt, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/18 "2008-10-21T04:00:24Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Loath as I am to engage that part of my brain, here goes, a bear was the closest thing to a monkey/gorilla/ape these yahoos could find. > > Where did I put my brain bleach? > > CMC +fnord! Real America is nothing if not “special”! ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/19 "2008-10-21T04:02:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, at least we know who was stealing all our yard signs. > > The bear couldn’t live with the guilt, I guess. It became overbearing. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841/20 "2008-10-21T04:37:02Z")
Given the signs it was wearing, the bear obviously was a terrorist, and got what it deserved. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-bear-draped-in-obama-signs-dumped-on-campus/468841.md?page=2)