AOL - Separated at birth?
On Tuesday, a black bear entered a house in Laconia, N.H., munched on some pears and grapes left on a kitchen counter, and drank some water (plus a few fish) from a fishbowl before picking up a stuffed teddy bear.
As WMUR News reported, the bear, who had come in through a sliding glass door that had been left open, was apparently scared off when the family returned home.
Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson discovered the discarded teddy bear on the lawn, along with a box of Goldfish crackers.
"I thought maybe ... [the teddy bear] looked like a little baby cub to her, and she picked it up and then dropped it when she had to jump over the wall to get away," Parkinson told WMUR.
Surge Desk reported Wednesday on a bear attack in Montana's Gallatin National Forest, near Yellowstone National Park, that left one person dead and two injured.
Let me start by saying that bears are awesome. But I do have a few problems with this story. I won't even bother with the part about the family who leaves home as a unit with pears and grapes on the counter along with boxes of Goldfish lying all over the place and their sliding glass door completely slid open. That's not even the main part of the story with me. I really wish they could have elaborated on the encounter a bit. This article doesn't even tell about the family coming home and seeing the bear. How do we know it wasn't just a hungry burglar? And maybe the glass door was open because the burglar opened it? All I'm saying is that they never gave me a real reason to believe the bear was ever there at all. No eye-witness accounts. No photographs. Are we just assuming it was a bear because the burglar attempted to steal a teddy bear? And that this will make a fantastic story if we say a bear stole it? That's what I'm smelling here. Nice try, AOL.
PS -- The last sentence is boggling the hell out of me. Why is that part of the story necessary? It's like if I wrote a blog telling about how Johnny Cupcakes threw a perfect game at Fenway last night and then ending it by mentioning that Johnny French Fry shot two people on the street after his game in Atlanta. They're completely unrelated except for the fact that they're both baseball players. These two stories are totally unrelated except that they have to do with bears. What does a bear burgling a home in New Hampshire have to do with a bear attack near Yellowstone National Park in Montana? I just don't understand the motives of some people.
On Tuesday, a black bear entered a house in Laconia, N.H., munched on some pears and grapes left on a kitchen counter, and drank some water (plus a few fish) from a fishbowl before picking up a stuffed teddy bear.
As WMUR News reported, the bear, who had come in through a sliding glass door that had been left open, was apparently scared off when the family returned home.
Homeowner Mary Beth Parkinson discovered the discarded teddy bear on the lawn, along with a box of Goldfish crackers.
"I thought maybe ... [the teddy bear] looked like a little baby cub to her, and she picked it up and then dropped it when she had to jump over the wall to get away," Parkinson told WMUR.
Surge Desk reported Wednesday on a bear attack in Montana's Gallatin National Forest, near Yellowstone National Park, that left one person dead and two injured.
Let me start by saying that bears are awesome. But I do have a few problems with this story. I won't even bother with the part about the family who leaves home as a unit with pears and grapes on the counter along with boxes of Goldfish lying all over the place and their sliding glass door completely slid open. That's not even the main part of the story with me. I really wish they could have elaborated on the encounter a bit. This article doesn't even tell about the family coming home and seeing the bear. How do we know it wasn't just a hungry burglar? And maybe the glass door was open because the burglar opened it? All I'm saying is that they never gave me a real reason to believe the bear was ever there at all. No eye-witness accounts. No photographs. Are we just assuming it was a bear because the burglar attempted to steal a teddy bear? And that this will make a fantastic story if we say a bear stole it? That's what I'm smelling here. Nice try, AOL.
PS -- The last sentence is boggling the hell out of me. Why is that part of the story necessary? It's like if I wrote a blog telling about how Johnny Cupcakes threw a perfect game at Fenway last night and then ending it by mentioning that Johnny French Fry shot two people on the street after his game in Atlanta. They're completely unrelated except for the fact that they're both baseball players. These two stories are totally unrelated except that they have to do with bears. What does a bear burgling a home in New Hampshire have to do with a bear attack near Yellowstone National Park in Montana? I just don't understand the motives of some people.
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