‘Safeway Bear’ Captured Last Fall In Kings Beach Shot Dead At Alpine County Campsite

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ALPINE COUNTY (CBS13) — A occupation carnivore with an adjacent much problematic appetite was changeable dead. A household camping successful Alpine County killed the 500-pound achromatic carnivore nicknamed the “Safeway Bear.”

Wildlife officials accidental the shooting was justified. Experts accidental a fed carnivore is simply a dormant bear.

And this peculiar carnal had a agelong past of ransacking stores and scarfing down everything successful sight, which they accidental is what yet led to this tragic ending.

The Safeway Bear, oregon “Kings Beach Bear,” was known arsenic 1 ravenous lawsuit whose adventurous appetite and chaotic encounters were good documented with the Bear League’s Ann Bryant.

“I knew erstwhile helium was gathered up and taken distant helium was not going to survive,” Bryant said.

Public information concerns forced the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to seizure the antheral carnivore past fall, and they fastened him with a GPS tracking collar earlier releasing him into a distant portion of El Dorado County.

But by spring, that collar fell off.

“The champion result would person been to permission him alone,” Bryant said.

But the funny carnivore was starving and returned to what helium knew.

“The occupation is erstwhile they go accustomed to quality food—trash, birdseed, you know, whatever—that’s each they cognize however to do,”

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says the astir 15-year-old carnivore was changeable and killed successful a campsite confrontation successful Alpine County.

A household with tiny children had tried to shoo the carnivore distant respective times and feared for their safety.

Officials called the shooting “justified” describing the carnivore arsenic “emaciated” with “rotten teeth.”

It was a tragic extremity for a bold carnivore that advocates privation the assemblage to larn from.

“You don’t provender the bears! Wherever you are, you don’t thatch the bears they tin travel up to radical and inquire for food. Because this is what happens.”

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Fish and Wildlife says the family’s nutrient and trash had been decently stored and secured astatine the campsite astatine the clip of the shooting.