On 8/22/2022 8:57 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:57:33 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd never heard of a publication called Pique before but assumed it was
>> some kind of local/regional thing. I'm a little surprised a free
>> publication made it into Google News but, come to think of it, at least
>> a couple of free newspapers for my area show up there too. I suppose
>> anything with a web edition could appear in Google.
>>
> Whistler isn't your average small town (which in BC usually means a
> mine or logging operation) and as a major ski resort that's trying to
> position itself as a top tier resort (think Vail or Sun Valley) I'm
> not at all surprised Pique would market itself online that way.
>

Heck, our weekly free paper is online and so is the one out of Spokane,
though it's about twice as large.

On 2022-08-22 16:01:30 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
> On 8/21/2022 11:40 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2022-08-22 03:24:52 +0000, The Horny Goat said:
>>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:59:01 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That staircase was hinged so it could be swung up to prevent outside
>>>>> access to our deck (otherwise only accessible from their bedroom or
>>>>> the kitchen) so the stairs were the only way for the bear to get onto
>>>>> our deck. Dad was a LOT more careful about leaving the stairs in the
>>>>> up position thereafter!
>>>>
>>>> I bet!
>>>
>>> Nothing like waking up in the middle of the night seeing a bear on the
>>> other side of your window!
>>
>> Could be worse ... you could wake up to find the bear on your side of
>> your window!  ;-)
>
> Probably after you were woken by the sound of the window being broken.

Of course, the bear would probably be far more scared ... afterall,
it's seeing you with 'bed head', no make-up, sleep-drool hanging off
your lip, ... ;-)

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> On 2022-08-21 9:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 20 August 2022 at 19:18:12 UTC-4, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> Rhino <no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
>>>>> Stories about bears going after food, even close to humans, are pretty
>>>>> routine in this country but this story claims that the bears around
>>>>> Whistler (a BC ski resort) are apparently entering people's houses
>>>>> through SECOND STOREY WINDOWS! I've never heard of THAT before!
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/bear-killed-after-entering-occupied-whistler-home-5698850?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAQxJCpuOLHgdpMGNrV0Njww47KsAEqEAgAKgcICjDWlacLMK-gvwM&utm_content=rundown
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, they had a rear staircase that lead from the ground up to an open
>>>> window or door. I am not real surprised that bears can navigate stairs. :-)
>>>>
>>>> What the article doesn’t say is where the bear was when they killed it,
>>>> just that they couldn’t drive it out of the peoples home.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.
>>>
>>> Cities don't even want you to relocate the animals which means they just
>>> keep coming back only to end up killed.
>>>
>>> https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/scrap-trap-when-evicting-wildlife
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why doesn’t PETA do something about that instead of stealing and murdering
>> people’s pets from their homes?
>>
> Because they are a cult of psychopaths?
>

That’s fair

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The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.