Bear shot dead in Burlington

Oh for the love of St. Michael!! We deal with bears in town up here on an annual basis. The people here in town treat them more like giant black squirrels, than anything else. Sure the odd garage door gets smashed in, or a fence gets walked through but what the heck, keeps life interesting!
I am responsible for a two man team here in town that deals with bear control, and in 2010 we had 357 calls for service, trapped and transferred 63, and the OPP shot 8. We tag every single animal we live trap and have around 90% success in not having them return.
Last year was more typical, with 150 calls for sevice and 18 trapped and the OPP shot 4.

I wish these friggin dough heads would suck it up and quit their crying. Must have been a slow news day.

Ricky
 
You fellows should have seen the ruckus that happened when a car hit a deer right next to High Park Toronto about a year ago. The poor, fatally injured animal suffered for a couple hours as the police were practically intimidated by the resultant crowd into calling every vet they could think of, only to shoot it after all of that needless suffering. The complaints of witnesses to the reporter on the scene just made me want to pull my hair out!

Yes, it's ironic that the same people who panic at the idea of a bear wandering around are the same to cry murder when the cops don't have tranquillizers ready (this was WAY south of the normal range of Ontario bears). I kind of hope that the bears will be able to establish themselves permanently in forested areas just outside of our urban areas and would hate to see every animal South of Muskoka shot because of an overly fearful public. That said, even the "farm" sightings in this story were practically on the edge of urban areas where you normally wouldn't even be able to discharge a firearm, so this bear(s?) was really pushing the envelope.
 
The majority of the Tac guys would have .223's ... A couple 308's for the sniper rifles but most of the Tac guys "fanning out" lol would be carrying .223
 
I know the park well, and it really is a wacky place for a bear to turn up.

Suburban / Residential streets on all sides for blocks and blocks, with really no wooded corridor to bring it south of Hwy 5/ Dundas.

Only thing I can imagine is that it followed the 407 in. He must have travelled quite a bit in the wee hours.
 
ForaFewDollarsMore said:
Its good police’s special tactical unit was out there to stop this killer. :runaway:
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This does sound silly on the surface, but I'm guessing the police tactical team are the most current with long guns in .308 or 12 gauge with slugs. I think we all can agree, these are most often the best choices for this animal control task that a police department would most likely have on hand. I certainly would feel better about a black-clad officer behind the trigger of a high powered rifle who just recently qualified two weeks ago, versus a patrol officer who has not picked up a .30 calibre rifle in 10 months and just barely qualified with it.

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Brutus said:
This does sound silly on the surface, but I'm guessing the police tactical team are the most current with long guns in .308 or 12 gauge with slugs. I think we all can agree, these are most often the best choices for this animal control task that a police department would most likely have on hand. I certainly would feel better about a black-clad officer behind the trigger of a high powered rifle who just recently qualified two weeks ago, versus a patrol officer who has not picked up a .30 calibre rifle in 10 months and just barely qualified with it.

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I remember talking to a gentleman at Silverdale who was there the day Niagara Regional was qualifying its cops on the AR 15. The standard to meet was all shots on the 11x17" paper at 50 yards. So yes, I'd want the tactical unit responding to a bear call!
 
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