Bear Down On Crime

I was watching a " Yellow Pages.Com " commercial that I know derived from this same trend of thought. Plus what happened last week in Horn Lake Miss. with the renegade bear wreaking havoc on the residents. Both of which make me think I'm not the only one who has had this idea. I would love to know what the crime statistics were in Horn Lake while there was a black bear on the loose. I haven't researched the question myself, but I bet some of my readers know. I'm sure there isn't a crime wave going on in Horn Lake anyway, but for sure there wasn't one the past couple of weeks. I bet residents were hanging around their houses like gutters the past couple of weeks. The original sighting was eleven days ago, but nobody believed it then. After the first confirmed sighting, it made the news. People were calling in everyday. With claims of sightings that caused the residents to be alarmed. Luckily it turned out to weigh 160 to 170 lbs., instead of the 400 to 800 lbs. that was claimed in earlier reports. I was expecting something like a Grizzly bear.

I know it won't happen , but I've been toying with the idea a couple of years now. When I visited Gatlinburgh, Tennessee a few years back, they warned residents not to feed the bears because they would become unruly. It appears the bears were coming into the neighborhoods at night looking for food.What if they let bears roam the city and make hunting or shooting them without provocation, a crime. We have to say without provocation. That last part would cause people to avoid them. Otherwise you would have people shooting them on sight. Even the lowest of criminals wouldn't want to be running back and forth to court for assaulting a bear. Black bears tend to avoid people and dogs, unless you bother them. Which include littering the streets wih remnants of fast food. What if you threw some litter out the window of your car somewhere else, only to lookup and find that a bear had followed you home? It could put an end to loitering and hanging out on the corners. A bear showing up would make the spot hot. It was just a passing thought. What would happen if we were to bear down on crime?


http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/05/state-officials-capture-bear-desoto/