Timothy Birdnow

Stupidity always carries the death penalty, be it for humans or animals.

I feel sorry for the bear but it had no earthly reason to climb up the pole in the first place. (BTW the fact a bear can get up a pole like that should scare the bejeebers out of us - there is no place to hide from such a critter if you get on it's bad side.)

The interesting part of the story is that 911 was rude to the first caller and never dispatched Fish and Wildlife to rescue the unbearable creature.

I suspect this bear was a stripper in a previous life. It certainly was attracted to a tall pole for SOME reason!

In a different world this would have made all the late night comedy shows, but in our glum, industrial modern age with political correctness stalking our every thought we won't have anyone making jokes about this, even though it is ripe for comedy. Humor often covers sadness and this is a bit sad. But it's also ripe for jokes.

So in that spirit I reintroduce a bit of old ethnic humor and say this was a "pole-ish bear". (Please no angry remarks - note I use the small p. And of course some of history's smartest people were Polish. Copernicus. Hilary Koprowski who invented the polio vaccine at the same time as Salk, Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the Kerosene lamp, , Jan Szczepanik, the "Austian Edison" as Mark Twain called him - inventor of the first bulletproof vest as well as a precursor to television, Rudolf Weigl - inventor of the typhus vaccine, Madam Curie, who needs no commentary, and a host of others.)

If a bear wants to pole sit any rational society would remove him. But of course Fish and Wildlige no doubt didn't have a clue as to how to get a bear down from a pole and didn't really want to try (can't blame them). But that's what they are paid the big bucks to do. As the old Jay Ward cartoon character Superchicken used to tell his sidekick "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred". It's hard to believe but it's bearly possible. 

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