Spain Sets Up Ranger Patrol To Protect Villages From Massive Bears That Were Once Nearly Extinct
New York Post | Feb. 10, 2024 | Angela BarbutiSpain’s Iberian brown bear population, which was once almost extinct, has made such a strong recovery that a ranger patrol was set up to deter them from roaming into small villages in the country’s north.
The regional government of Castile and Leon arranged for the patrol, which consists of nine rangers, to guard residents and their crops in the mining town of Villablino and the surrounding area, in the province of Palencia . . .
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Each bear can weigh from 330 to 550 pounds and stand over 6.5 feet tall . . .
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Angeles Orallo, 73, has been attempting to keep the bears away from her vegetable garden.
“We are older people… the fact that we can’t go out for a quiet walk is sad,” she lamented. . .
[Got news for you, Angeles: it ain’t your vegetables or your quiet walk they’re interested in.]
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Thirty years ago, there were only 60 bears left in Spain, but today, the country is home to 400.
Hey, bears: do you want to go extinct? Because this is how you go extinct.
“What you talkin’ ’bout, Juallis?”
“You look like a Big Macarena.”
Has anyone ever given a good reason why Spanish isn’t spelled Spainish?
My theory is that the Norse stole vowels from all over the continent and added them to their own words. They dropped some in Germany, where they mark them with umlauts… Gdansk is a typical victim…
I knew they raped and pillaged the Villagers and all but I never knew those scumbags could dip that low.
More bears in Spain? Probably due to gloabal warming.
Too many bears in your neighbourhood?
We have a vaccine for that…but everyone has to have the vaccine or it doesnt work.
Even though you have received the vaccine, you could still get attacked by a bear because your neighbour isnt vaccinated…
Ha!
I just found this comment — sidelined in “Moderation.”
So . . . moderation is now putting comments that refer to vaccines into “time out”?
Nice going, Brandon!
That’s what happens when we start letting all these “Definitly not FBI Agents” in here.
I’ll trade you 200 formerly nearly extinct alligators for 1 formerly nearly extinct Iberian brown bear.
The gleischaltung is knoocking at the door, let it in.
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“Some warrant’s knocking at the door
Some warrant’s ringing the bell
Some warrant’s knocking at the door
Some warrant’s ringing the bell
Do me a favor
Ignore the Fourth
And let ’em in . . .”
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We need a Right to Bear Vaccines…
Sure thang, coming up… but remember, you can only administer them in their arms, cuz that’s the only thing covered by the 2nd.