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Thursday, July 27, 2006

A BEAR!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe
/07/07/germany.bear.ap/index.html


This was big news in Europe while I was there.

http://www.ncwildlife.org/fs_index_04_hunting.htm

For someone coming from a state that has an estimated 11,000 of these critters it was kind of entertaining to see the reactions of Germans that there was a wild bear in their county -- some folks were cool with it, some thought he was a dangerous, vicious hazard that had to be disposed of.

We actually had a bear walk right through downtown Wake Forest, a few years back. Didn't hurt anyone, didn't break anything, just needed to get from one side of town to the other, just passing through....

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