You’d think they’d be naturals with those shovels growing out of their heads.
Well, I’m certainly never going to watch him. And I think his attempt to distance himself from having a mostly female fan base is actually grosser than the joke.
“I don’t pander to women.” WTF
We were at a ranger station in the Sierra Nevadas decades ago, and they had a corkboard covered with Polaroids of cars peeled open – literally – by bears who had seen coolers inside.
When I was in my twenties, and was about to leave on a trip around the country during much of which I intended to sleep in a tent, there was a friend of my parents who was very much a city person and who was very concerned about this.
City Person: Will the tent keep bugs out?
Me: Yes, the tent will keep bugs out.
CP: Will the tent keep snakes out?
Me: Yes, the tent will keep snakes out.
CP: Will the tent keep bears out?
Me: . . . No, the tent will not keep bears out. But you live in (1970’s) Manhattan!
(Yes, I slept in the tent. No, I did not get eaten, or even threatened, by bears. City Person did not get mugged, let alone murdered. We both survived our choice of dangers nicely; though CP’s been gone for a while now, of natural causes.)
That happened to a buddy of mine. He and a friend went climbing in Yosemite. Friend slipped, Mike caught him but really tore up his shoulder. They get back to the van and discover that a bear had ripped the back lift door (old VW microbus) off the hinges to get at the cooler in the back. They get Mike doped up (firefighters get all sorts of good drugs for their emergency kits) and head back home, only to hit a deer on the way.
Was epic.
Did you hit the deer or did the firefighters? I’m assuming it was you since it sounds perfect for an “epic” trip.
Possums agreed with you.
When I was a little girl I went up North to visit some family friends, and there was another little girl there and we decided we wanted to camp out in the back yard. So we set up a tent and brought out our sleeping bags and tried to rough it… I don’t remember why we gave up and came inside, guess it was too cold. We left the tent where it was standing.
A bear did indeed come that night and got into the tent. He knocked the whole thing over.
I can only imagine what would have happened if we were in it.
Oh, it can happen. Just like you could get mugged while doing errands in a city.
But even in bear country, bears don’t injure or kill humans very often. And even in cities, most people don’t get mugged whenever they step out the door.
(Did you have any food in that tent? I was careful about that.)
I can’t remember, but probably not. I remember the owners of the house were extremely used to bears, so it seems unlikely they would have let two kids eat food in a tent in the middle of bear country.
Bear attacks may be rare, but when they do happen they’re so horrible it’s hard not to be afraid of bears anyway. (I’m also afraid of dogs.)
I love how deliberately assholish that was on the part of the 'possum.
Just to be pedantic, it isn’t the little asshole you need to be worried, but it’s close.
Yeah, you don’t want a skunk to give you the stinkeye.
Back in the 70s, rangers in Yosemite told us that grizzlies loved the big luxury cars with no B-pillar that were so popular (Cadillac deVille, Ford LTD, …). They’d punch in the back window, move their paw over slightly to pull out the front window, and then have easy access to whatever people were stupid enough to “lock” in their car.
I just showed that to four other people (separately), and every one of us said spontaneously, “What a little jerk!” But about the possum, not the skunk.
No doubt the possum was being an asshole, but tbere was no question about its attitude towards skunks.
Ironically, the time the snow comes in is about the same time those shovels fall off their heads.
A California woman was arrested after she was caught with a handwritten, fake license plate on the back of a suspected stolen car…
To make things worse, the counterfeit plate’s tags were expired, reading “JAN 2023” where a real registration sticker would be.
“Pro tip: At least make the “registration” current,” the Benicia PD joked.
That’s why you just cover it with Psychic Paper.
Holy cow, that fake tag looked like it was written in crayon.