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I listened and didn't hear it, those two sorry sacks of shit didn't say thank you!
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Leave motherfuckers alone
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So my pops asked me if I could stop by his place last Friday morning before 8am to load his vehicle with some Rubbermaid totes & coolers he was taking up to Whistler from Friday to Monday with his GF. He's got a number of stairs from front street to front door, so it's a bit of a challenge. I would have stopped by to do it Thursday evening, but there's been some car break-ins in the area the past year so no need to load the car with your stuff the night before.
He lives about 7 - 10 mins on foot from one of the local highways, and there's further forested area north of there and SFU campus up the hill about 10 mins by car.
All that said ... his block is a short one with a deadend, so there's only about 6 houses on each side, and about 15 - 18 houses on each side on the block prior.
As I'm leaving around 7:45am I make my way to the corner and the slight incline onto the next block. It's about 20 meters behind me or so. Jog-running up the hill and up the driveway to the house on the corner is a "large dog" (medium brown color) ... or so I think. Nah - it's a bear. WTF. His area doesn't have sidewalks, so you have to walk on the street next to parked cars. He's spotted a bear or two over the years, and gone inside and called the local wildlife # to alert them. This bear looked to be about 200 - 250lbs tops. Not a cub, nor fully grown. Tough to gauge the age as it ran by from a side profile and lower to the ground as it was running uphill from the side street below.
Definitely catches you off-guard though as had the bear appeared 2 minutes prior I would have had my back turned with my car facing the other direction, and luckily it wasn't walking towards me unannounced.
Didn't have my phone handy as it was in my backpack in the trunk of the car.
@Madrox @APOPHIS @REDLINE
@PJN @PDQ21 @D24OHA D@mnphins
So my pops asked me if I could stop by his place last Friday morning before 8am to load his vehicle with some Rubbermaid totes & coolers he was taking up to Whistler from Friday to Monday with his GF. He's got a number of stairs from front street to front door, so it's a bit of a challenge. I would have stopped by to do it Thursday evening, but there's been some car break-ins in the area the past year so no need to load the car with your stuff the night before.
He lives about 7 - 10 mins on foot from one of the local highways, and there's further forested area north of there and SFU campus up the hill about 10 mins by car.
All that said ... his block is a short one with a deadend, so there's only about 6 houses on each side, and about 15 - 18 houses on each side on the block prior.
As I'm leaving around 7:45am I make my way to the corner and the slight incline onto the next block. It's about 20 meters behind me or so. Jog-running up the hill and up the driveway to the house on the corner is a "large dog" (medium brown color) ... or so I think. Nah - it's a bear. WTF. His area doesn't have sidewalks, so you have to walk on the street next to parked cars. He's spotted a bear or two over the years, and gone inside and called the local wildlife # to alert them. This bear looked to be about 200 - 250lbs tops. Not a cub, nor fully grown. Tough to gauge the age as it ran by from a side profile and lower to the ground as it was running uphill from the side street below.
Definitely catches you off-guard though as had the bear appeared 2 minutes prior I would have had my back turned with my car facing the other direction, and luckily it wasn't walking towards me unannounced.
Didn't have my phone handy as it was in my backpack in the trunk of the car.
Brah, don't be tagging me in your kamikaze quest to recruit BGOL members to avenge your dad's defiled real estate property from Yogi Bear. I'll beat the hell out of an ant, fly, mosquito, roach, and anything that I am 10000X bigger than. Let me know if you need bug spray. I stay strapped with the insect blicky.
Any bigger than a rat, I fold.
Damn man you lucked up and I'm glad that you're good!
APO' - I was driving down the next block in a bit of a daze like - "I just spotted a bear out for a 7:45am jog ... the hell?"
Thanks man. I jokingly said to a coworker at work I don't want to die via getting mauled by a bear, that's for damn sure.
It initially threw me off as it was running low to the ground coming uphill from the right side of my car to the left in front of me. If it were just walking on level ground it would have looked more bear-like, lol.
APO' - I was driving down the next block in a bit of a daze like - "I just spotted a bear out for a 7:45am jog ... the hell?"
The early bear gets the food, brah.
He ain't no slacker. Respect his hustle!
Agreed. Sizing up peoples' garbages and recycling, etc.
I've mentioned this before in a thread or two. My older cousin (turns 50 this year) had a run in with one up close some years back. He was taking his garbage out to the side of the house. Opened the side gate and a bear was right there. Fully grown. They were both startled, and my cousin turned and simply hurried inside as he's got a wife and 4 kids and ain't going out from Yogi Bear mauling either.
He's closer to forested area though. About 10+ minutes up the hill by car at a much higher elevation.
