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Police: Don’t Chase Bears While Drunk And Wielding A Hatchet

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05.12.15 | 12:53 pm

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts have some sage advice: Don’t go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a dull hatchet.

North Adams police said on their Facebook page that someone did just that on Monday.

“Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not advised,” the department posted, noting that the man was taken into protective custody “due to his incapacitation from the consumption of alcoholic beverage.”

No name was released.

Police said anyone who sees a bear should leave it alone and call authorities.

“We certainly don’t need anyone going all Davy Crockett …” police wrote.

Bears are not unusual in the largely rural western part of the state.

A dispatcher said Tuesday said no one was available to handle media calls.

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nickdanger says:

May 12, 2015

Kinda short on details here. What happened?
boidster says:

May 12, 2015

Welp, there go my plans for Saturday night…
mantan says:

May 12, 2015

no one was available to handle media calls

The bear’s gone catatonic…
ncsteve says:

May 12, 2015

Even if you didn’t know it was Massachusetts, you’d know it was a ~~brown~~ black bear rather than a grizzly, because the guy’s still alive.
srfromgr says:

May 12, 2015

Aww…look at that cute bear. Honestly, if someone’s dumb enough to run around drunk chasing bears with a hatchet, they deserve to get what’s coming to them. I just came to this thread because of the photo. Dumb article with a bunch of empty calories though.

OK…done now. Catch y’all on the flip side.

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