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"I'm tired of all these bear attacks! It's like a country bear jamberoo around here!"
"Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear."
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| State wildlife officials today were looking for a small bear near downtown Atlanta. Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Beth Brown said the bear was spotted this morning in the Moreland Avenue and Glenwood Avenue areas along I-20 just southeast of downtown. Brown said a DNR biologist was in the area, and was hoping to be able to safely tranquilize the bear with a dart. "Otherwise, we'll let it be and hope that it wanders back out the way it came and doesn't end up in traffic or anything like that," she said. The bear is likely a male about a year old, Brown said. "This is the time of the year - early spring through now - when you have bears that were born last year leaving their mothers and trying to establish a range of their own," she said. Brown said Georgia's bear populations are normally confined to extreme North Georgia and some swampy areas of middle Georgia. "Bears normally wouldn't be in metro Atlanta, but this time of the year when they are being run off by their mothers, they tend to follow river corridors and end up in places they shouldn't be," she said. |
"Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear."
