- Experts advise against using tasers on bears because
they are inhumane and potentially harmful, perhaps we should rethink their
use on 6-year-olds, 80-year-olds, and diabetics having seizures.
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- Black Bear Hit With Taser, Dies
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- Refused To Go Back To Woods
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- ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida black bear that visited a
neighborhood and refused to return to the woods, died after it was hit
with a Taser, authorities said.
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- The state is trying to train police and residents to
deal with bears, WESH 2 News reported.
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- Bear encounters are becoming very common. In Tuesday's
incident, the Orlando Police Department went to the Oak Crest neighborhood
and rousted the bear out of a garage and shot it with a Taser two times.
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- After being hit with the Taser, the animal was tied up
around the neck and paws.
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- State officers said the bear most likely died from strangulation
or extreme stress.
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- State bear experts said that a taser is not something
that should be used to drive a bear from a neighborhood, and have new weapons
to keep bears and people apart.
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- The new weapon is called a super sock and is not deadly.
A state bear expert said that super sock is just "a bunch of lead
shot that's encased in a Kelvar bag." The sock is fired from a shotgun
and delivers a sting to a bear.
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- Another weapon used are cracker shells. The noise and
smoke drive bears away.
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- Officers said they had none of these weapons Tuesday
when they encountered a bear and had to use a Taser.
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- A Fish and Wildlife Officer, after looking at a YouTube
video of an Alabama police officer tasing a bear said that tasers should
not be used to deal with the animals.
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- "We've got the Feds, the State, local and county
all on board to use these detterent methods," Mike Orlando with the
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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- Experts said that people should keep their garbage in
their garage to try and keep bears from being attracted to their homes.
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- Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND
- Founder and Director
- Creating Health Institute and The Oak Centre for natural
health education
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