Comments on: Grizzly Bites Man, Lives

By: Helen Jupiter

Helen Jupiter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:32:46 +0000

My vote: Bear lives, as has been previously suggested, in a zoo or (ideally) preserve/refuge. I’m sure you’re all shocked.

By: Helen Jupiter

Helen Jupiter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:31:40 +0000

My vote: Bear lives, as has been previously suggested, in a zoo or (ideally)/preserve refuge. I’m sure you’re all shocked.

By: David Markland

David Markland — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:43:27 +0000

This isn’t the case of a wild animal getting a taste for human blood, thus requiring the need to track it down and kill it, so I don’t see any justification in putting the animal down.

Truth is, we should treat this bear like every other killer. Stick it in prison for a few years until it comes up for parole, or overcrowding necessitates an early release. After that, the bear will likely get signed to a label, and crossover back into acting.

Its the circle of life. In L.A. anyway.

By: kedrowss

kedrowss — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:05:51 +0000

As has already been mentioned, you can’t just dump it in the wild because it won’t know how to survive. And it might be difficult to find a zoo willing to take it, because once an animal has attacked a human, it becomes much more dangerous for humans to deal with. I don’t think anyone seriously wants to kill the bear to teach it a lesson, it’s more a question of what else are you going to do with it.

By: lambkill

lambkill — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:09:25 +0000

No, the bear should not be killed, and as everyone else has said, its a bear being a bear. The trainers themselves said it best, that they know the risk of working with wild animals. Unfortunately, that’s a concept not many people get.

Besides, how is KILLING the bear going to teach it a lesson?

By: WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL

WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:36:54 +0000

I’ve heard people wanting the bear “set free” in the wild. I’ve heard people who want the bear dead.

If those are the only two options, I’d vote for euthanasia because setting a creature free that’s only known captive care all its life is a death sentence in itself albeit a much slower one far more horribly inhumane that results in the bear probably starving and/or getting shot because it just does not know how to function in such a foreign and hostile environment.

Would destroying the creature accomplish anything? (other than make me find irony in the execution of the very animal that’s on our state flag AND extinct in California)?

Stephan Miller’s death is a wholly unfortunate tragedy. Let’s not compound it by killing such a magnificent animal. Find it a protected place be it a zoo or a preserve where it can be properly cared for and live in peace.

By: slackmistress

slackmistress — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:09:53 +0000

We let Mike Tyson live, didn’t we? (Or someone did. Not me.)

I agree with the Wil/ls above me. He’s just being a bear. He should be put in a preserve or a zoo or somewhere really good, but not so he can talk to any other of the trained bears, because they’re all gonna want to take the bite-your-trainer-and-retire plan.

Kidding aside, it’s a tragic event for the trainer, but I am glad that the other trainers agree that the bear shouldn’t be killed.

By: The 8 Track Kid

The 8 Track Kid — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:39:53 +0000

That’s just bears being bears; like Manny Ramirez if he bit people (which he might).

By: Wil Wheaton

Wil Wheaton — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:54 +0000

The bear was just being a bear, and doing the things a bear does. Killing that animal because it was acting naturally is about as wrong as forcing them to perform in movies in the first place.

They should let the bear live out its life in some kind of preserve with other bears.

By: faboomama

faboomama — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:59:44 +0000

If only Michael Bay would get a bite to the neck. Hmmm, my husband is from Transylvania…maybe I should get him into pictures.

Focus! I have no opinion on the bear. I don’t know why people are so ready to kill animals who kill trainers, but it seems to be the done thing. I think the trainers who work with these animals probably know best and everyone outside is just being reactionary. I’ll never understand humanity’s kneejerk revenge killing behavior.