I would like to have seen Montana.

Party Boy: I would like to have seen Montana.

Thread Over. We have a Winnah!

I've mounted bigger bears than that.

/jk.
/TPIWWP

"We're not sure what to call him at this point"

Fellow farkers, I believe we have just been challenged. Let the threads roll...

Are they sure it wasn't a lost furry ?

Largest bear in the world -Goliath - 2000 pounds, 12 ft. tall (Guiness World Records) lived at Space Farms 1967 - 1991

Well, at least it wasn't killed because it kept "coming into human land" which in Montana usually means "was there when a bunch of rich farks started trying to build higher and higher and in more wilderness rich areas where the bears were to begin with."

Big Sky is a great example of this shiat. Head up the mountain and see all of the new development. And the houses keep getting bigger. So now there aren't just ugly condos but there are ugly houses, too. And they wonder why the bears and moose don't just head into the wilderness.

Did they say what happened to the pickup truck?

I live in Montana so I'm really gettin' hit by a pick up truck with these repli...

"The skin is the animal's soul," Faechner said gently. "We're really into bringing back the animal and how that animal was when it was alive. It's how we show respect."

Well that settles that age old question of "where does the soul reside?". And I was thinking it was the pituitary gland, but it's in the SKIN people. Guy is a farkin genius.

/really though, they did a great job on the perservation

/does not approve

Why is there still posting in this thread (mine included)? A winner has been declared and I must concur.

Hmmmm...a drunk headed home in a diesel pickup at 3 a.m. - that could have been just about anybody here in MT.

//except me, my truck isn't a diesel.

shiat!!!!!

I'm on my phone...cant post pics

one of my favorite bands right now is Grizzly Bear

someone needs to post a pic!

Beats chugging syrup

My lifelong dream is to be taxidermied when I die and put on display at the local courthouse.

The bear isn't posed in a threatening stance, since in life he wasn't aggressive toward people, and the USFWS wanted it to be in as natural a form as possible, Shanley noted.

Notice the "non-threatening" pose, looks like he's about to eat somebody's baby. And I think we should name him after the Unibomber, same scruffy, grizzled appearance, and the same town. They were probably buddies. Maybe Teddy Kazinsky.

I was born and raised in Montana. Fortunately, I never came in contact with a grizzly. But I did have an unpleasant altercation with a big-ass moose, although that's a whole different story.

Don't mess with grizzly bears. They will fark you up beyond belief and not even feel bad about it.

Despite Montana being so huge, he had be in the place where he'd hit a bear.

Damn those 4x4's are sweet, you couldn't get a Buick into a ravine to mow those hairy summbiatches down.

This story would be so much better if pickup truck was someone's nickname. Oh and the bear's name definately should be Teddy Kazinsky, stay_away_from_montana credit.

It was kinda funny. I read this story right after reading about some guy wanting to wrestle a bear and the banner is a pic of a bear.
Link (new window)
(it's in the archives a few weeks back)

Because People in power are Stupid: Lightweights need to do some real taxidermy on that sucker

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I see your martini-drinking marmoset(?) and raise you a Mouse Mouse.

(click the pic)

Grizzly Bear are dangerous. We should kill all of them.

But the bear's wandering ways ended on Oct. 17, 2007, when a diesel-powered pickup truck hit him at 3:45 a.m. about five miles west of Lincoln.


First of all it's bears', and second, why was it important to know that it was a 'diesel-powered' truck? Are you implying that if a truck going fast enough to kill that beast on just regular gas would have hit, the bear would be alive today?


/just checkin' I reckon

/Approves

People pay to put others in the ground, and other people pay to put dead animals on display. Might be a museum, might be a wall.....

tonesskin: Big Sky is a great example of this shiat. Head up the mountain and see all of the new development. And the houses keep getting bigger. So now there aren't just ugly condos but there are ugly houses, too. And they wonder why the bears and moose don't just head into the wilderness.

This is such a garbage comment. The amount of "development" in Montana is a drop in the ocean. Seriously... Big Sky? With over half of the state living in bear population you cite this as your example? How about all of the communities that have had bear walk through the town in the middle of the night? Hell, we had one try to break our door down at midnight.

Bears get shot because half of Montana is bear country. It's has little to do with any new development, in fact the new development is so small, it's practically meaningless given the state's population and size/density. It sounds like you have an axe to grind with the Hollywood elite that are building "ranches" in Montana and have been for nearly 20 years.

While I think it's moronic, it certainly hasn't lead to more bear killings. In fact most of the killings have been on true down home rancher land. The bear comes onto his property, kills his dog, and he shoots it. The same can be said for wolverines, and wolves as well depending on where you are.

Headline wording is confusing -- did the ecosystem get hit, or a bear? Was it the third largest bear to get killed by a pick up truck? If so, that makes it sound like the truck's owner hits an awful lot of Grizzlies. Or was it just the third largest Grizzly on record?

English, motherfarker -- do you speak it?

hit a grizzly with your truck? man that had to leave a dent.

prekrasno: Headline wording is confusing...

Grammatically, it's saying that it's the third largest bear in that ecosystem to be hit by a pickup in that state. After reading the headline, my first thought was "holy shiat, they keep detailed records on bears!"

/restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses
//some people still understand them... right?

The Fark headline really made my head go all hurty....

Mordien: prekrasno: Headline wording is confusing...

Grammatically, it's saying that it's the third largest bear in that ecosystem to be hit by a pickup in that state. After reading the headline, my first thought was "holy shiat, they keep detailed records on bears!"

/restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses
//some people still understand them... right?

Fark headlines make blood come from my ears, out of....mostly.

Eatlemming: This is such a garbage comment. The amount of "development" in Montana is a drop in the ocean. Seriously... Big Sky? With over half of the state living in bear population you cite this as your example? How about all of the communities that have had bear walk through the town in the middle of the night? Hell, we had one try to break our door down at midnight.

Bears get shot because half of Montana is bear country. It's has little to do with any new development, in fact the new development is so small, it's practically meaningless given the state's population and size/density. It sounds like you have an axe to grind with the Hollywood elite that are building "ranches" in Montana and have been for nearly 20 years.

While I think it's moronic, it certainly hasn't lead to more bear killings. In fact most of the killings have been on true down home rancher land. The bear comes onto his property, kills his dog, and he shoots it. The same can be said for wolverines, and wolves as well depending on where you are.

You'll notice the bear was killed by a vehicle....on a road that wouldn't have been necessary if the area hadn't been developed. Ditto Big Sky--maybe the housing area is small, but the roads built into every farking place displace the wildlife. Maybe bears are coming into ranches because everywhere else the bear goes, some jackhole is hauling ass down a logging road, scaring off the bears food and messing up his habitat. Grizzly bears would prefer to stay away from people, and maybe if we quit building shiat everywhere, and the roads to get to it, they'd stay away from our places.

Saying "the development in Montana is small" is like saying "I only live in a small area," not even considering that everything you use has to be brought to you and disposed of. And that's not being done in YOUR area, unless you never go anywhere and completely recycle every single thing you use.

I live in montana my whole life! I have never seen anything but a black bear. I'd like to see a grizzly even if it meant hitting one with my car O_o. and about this last post ^^^ why complain about what we shoulda coulda done to protect the bears? As people reproduce they expand why cry about something we have nothing control over unless you cut our penis off?

Dont actually say how big the bear was or anything, that might make us mistakenly think the jackhole who authored this could write...

Came here for photos of a grizzly in a Lincoln (riding or chauffeuring). Hopefully a '69 Lincoln with "suicide doors."

/Painfully disappointed

Otto's_Jacket:

First of all it's bears'

???

yeah .... it's bear's. I don't know wtf Otto has been smoking. but gimme some of it.

This bear wasn't killed by a drunk driver. It was a logger on his way to work. He was killed on Highway 200, which links Great Falls and Missoula and goes through Lincoln. This death isn't the result of "new development" ... that road has been there a long time. Grizzlies from the Glacier population have continued to expand their population southward. Right now, the Lincoln area is considered the southern extent of their territory.

/the "teddy kaczynski" comments are comedy gold

" . . . he could be dead where he used to live."

Doesn't everything that "used to live" become "dead where (it) used to live"? Has anything died on another planet yet?

Ouch, the dreaded fail when correcting grammar from Otto.

First, as bear population increases they will expand their range. They do this in search of more food and the ability to breed without getting the shiat beaten out of them by larger and older males.

Development does have a little something to do with it though. As areas are developed the animal population relocates to areas with less human traffic and then the populations increase. Younger animals will move to different areas and since they are young they have less fear of humans. This is the case with the deer populations in the east and south which are higher that they were during our history. It is not always a bad thing but people who move into these areas must realize who was there first and give the animals space.

Having said all that BS I think the bear should be named Lincoln. I know it is not as funny as others but it did live there and died there so it would seem to me that it liked the place.

"I told you it wouldn't work, Yogi. Now you're dead, stuffed and forever on display in the middle of the park you kept trying to escape from."

nelbuts1:First, as bear population increases they will expand their range. They do this in search of more food and the ability to breed without getting the shiat beaten out of them by larger and older males.

Development does have a little something to do with it though. As areas are developed the animal population relocates to areas with less human traffic and then the populations increase. Younger animals will move to different areas and since they are young they have less fear of humans. This is the case with the deer populations in the east and south which are higher that they were during our history. It is not always a bad thing but people who move into these areas must realize who was there first and give the animals space.

Having said all that BS I think the bear should be named Lincoln. I know it is not as funny as others but it did live there and died there so it would seem to me that it liked the place.

The bear also lived near Choteau lets call him that. Fairfield, another good name, is 15 miles down the road(Towards Lincoln), Fairfield is also "The Malting Barley Capital of the World", lets call him that. Plus bears didn't "relocate to areas with less human traffic", they were killed. And currently bears are moving away from the mountains and into the prairies more.