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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

I would go out looking for it, but I'm afraid of being eaten. [Big Grin]

In my last class at school, the PA beeped and our principal announced it. He said:

"Er... sorry for the interruption, but we have a..." (At this point I groaned because our lockdown procedure measure announcements begin like this) "...bit of a situation. There is a bear in the area and we would ask all teachers to..."

It was very exciting so I didn't hear any more. Only people on buses and with cars (and/or parents with cars) were allowed to leave the school. Luckily, I got a lift with a kind and generous friend who by a lucky coincidence, had his car at school.

All the male teachers were guarding the doors (there wasn't a single female teacher without a male teacher with them who was outside!) and trapping the escaping students. That didn't stop students from piling into cars and being dropped off a little down the road though. This seemed to make the teachers nervous, and they kept cautioning us on the dangers of doing this. You can't keep a good student down.

I wish I had seen the bear though, this only happens once every three or four years, and it's definately one of the years highlights.

Does anyone else have wild animals randomly wandering through their suburbs?

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Mountain Lion about 7-8 years ago. It didn't bother us, and I didn't go out looking for it. The paw tracks were big enough to scare me.

Currently, there is a furocious flock of bad egg Quails running around, picking on us. We are oppressed. They are just too big in numbers, we can't handle them.

[ September 17, 2003, 04:29 PM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Ah, Canada. Wondered where one would have bears *and* bonus "u"s in a word like naberhud.

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

I have a lizardman that comes over to my house sometimes.

Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :

We had to worry about moose when I was growing up. Though there was the occasional bear that wandered into town too. They were usually little black bears, nothing to worry about. But one time it was a grizzly, which they took pretty seriously.

Ah, the wonders of the arctic! How I so don't miss that.

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

Actually....

I live on a mountain. There is at least one cougar in the area. Rattlesnakes are everywhere. We have my son stay out of the tall grass, and our (mostly feral) dog is about at all times. He'd alert us to any real danger. [Big Grin]

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

Skunks. [Frown]

Copperhead snakes, lots.
Deer, turkey, otter, fox, racoons, cows [Wink]

I live in fear of going out in the woods after dark.

Posted by screechowl (Member # 2651) on :

Rattlesnakes, in the swimming pool for one place, at a school I was principal for in southwest Kansas.