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CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) — Police at Western Carolina University and wildlife officials were investigating the discovery early Monday of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs.
Leila Tvedt, associate vice chancellor for public relations, said Monday night that maintenance workers found the 75-pound bear cub shot to death in front of the school’s administration building at the entrance to campus. The Obama yard signs were stapled together and placed over the bear’s head, Tvedt said.
The bear had been shot in the head, Tvedt said.
“Western Carolina University deplores the inappropriate behavior that has led to this troubling incident,” Tvedt said. “We cannot speculate on the motives of the people involved nor who those people might be. Campus police are cooperating fully with authorities to investigate this matter.”
University police called in state Wildlife Resources officials to remove the body and help in the investigation.
Bear season is under way in western North Carolina.
Two more weeks of this?
I bet alcohol was involved. This would only seem funny or a good idea if you were hammered. Were the “hunters” pro-America? You betcha.
i said it before in a previous post, and I will say it here. Your typical republican.
Interesting how the Australian media is calling this a “protest.”
Pure speculation.
Could’ve just been a couple of drunken jackasses.
Must have taken some “Hairy Chested” Conservative with a BIG GUN to kill a bear cub with a shot through the head !!! It’s NO CONTEST when you SLAUGHTER AN ANIMAL WITH A PROJECTILE TRAVELLING 2200 FEET PER SECOND !!! But the “Hairy Chested” Conservative was TOO CHICKEN to leave his Calling Card !!! WIMPS !!!
I see this picture and think, “Honey. Where’s my meatloaf?”
I find many problems with this story. Why was a bear on campus? It sounds dangerous. I thought it was illegal to have a gun on campus? How was the bear shot? Who had access to Obama signs? Doesn’t the campaign usually only give them to Obama supporters? Aren’t bear cubs normally left alone during hunting season in favor of adult bears?
This is a shame. That bear cub wasn’t even old enough to vote.
In some cultures it is considered an honor to receive a food offering.
I hope these jerks go hunting with Cheney soon.
/pro second amendment voter; not pro redneck a-hole.
Here’s a story for Stephen Colbert’s THREAT DOWN!
Bears!
J/P=?
A 75 pound cub? That cub was one meal away from being an adult.
They have identified the bear. An alert Acorn representitve remembers signing the bear up for voter registration on his last rounds.
And Animal rights groups are not doing a thing about this blatant act of animal cruelty?
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The average black bear weights about 300 to 400 pounds.
They have found out that this was done by students from New Jersey.
Its a joke. “Grin and bear it”?