"North Slope polar bear dies after hazing shot by guard"

[Arctic Dave]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement is investigating after a guard at BP's Endicott oil field apparently mortally wounded a polar bear by shooting it with a pyrotechnic shotgun shell in a hazing incident.

BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said Wednesday that the security guard, who works for the contractor Purcell Security, was hazing an aggressive polar bear on the night of Aug. 3 in an attempt to stop it from moving toward a housing unit at the North Slope oil field. He said the guard believed he was firing a non-lethal bean bag round from his 12-gauge shotgun.

The wounded bear remained in the area near the Endicott causeway, coming and going a couple of times, before dying on or around Aug. 15.

Rinehart said the Fish and Wildlife Service conducted a necropsy of the bear on Aug. 16, "and during the course of that they discovered that the bear had suffered a projectile wound that is not consistent with the bean bag hazing round the guard had intended to use."

http://www.adn.com/2011/08/24/2030257/hazing-proves-fatal-for-slope.html

[catbyte]

1. assholes. Leave the wildlife alone. They'll be extinct soon enough

:mad:

[amborin]

2. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Shot & Killed a Black Bear at Bonneville Dam in Oregon a couple wks ago..

just b/c it was browsing around the area....not showing any aggression....

[Arctic Dave]

3. The Dam Bear should have stayed in the city were it belongs.

Sorry, had to be done.

[amborin]

6. LOL, but sadly...

[Arctic Dave]

4. The Dam Bear should have stayed in the city were it belongs.

Sorry, had to be done.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. poor bear

[dtexdem]

7. But what fraternity was the bear trying to join?

And I'm sure not going to ask that guard to fix beans for my dinner. ;-)