Bears Guard Marijuana Grow Op

[Jim Finnel]

Conservation officers and police in the Boundary region have discovered a bizarre security system - unlike anything they've ever seen before. A marijuana grow op is using bears to defend thousands of pot plants.

Police regularly monitor several drug sites in the hills above Christina Lake. But a recent raid on one marijuana grow operation had an unexpected defense system.

Police found at least ten bears patrolling the grounds around thousands of pot plants. The bears were fed dog food and vegetables to keep them in the area. Police say the bears were so docile the animals were actually playful as they approached.

Two people have been arrested, and are facing charges.


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[VistaCruiser]

Since this bust happened in British Columbia, I have to break out my parody of "O Canada", which I wrote back in 1998 when members of the Canadian snowboarding team tested positive for weed:

O Cannabis
Our smoke and favourite grass
True pothead love in all thy smoke we blast
With glowing joints, the smoke will rise
The true hemp, strong-ass weed
From far and wide, O Cannabis
We stand on guard for thee
God keep our herb...glorious and free
O Cannabis, we stand in line for thee
O Cannabis, we stand in line for weed!

 

[SnowBender]

Smokey The Bear moved his whole famdamily to Canada, eh?

 

[SpectateSwamp]

Be good to those bears

There is bound to be a reality show about this. The fish cops better not kill our bears or they will be deamonized forever.

 

[G-Dog]

I have thought of using bees before

 

[SpectateSwamp]

Human fed bears are dead bears. What a stupid stupid statement.

Many years ago I worked on a forestry bridge crew. The camp cook made 6 or 8 pies a day. There were only 4 of us on the crew. He would put all the extra food in 5 gal buckets to feed his bears.

One day his favorite old black bear got in a big fight with a 4 or 5 year old Grizzly. Old Irish waded into the battle with a broom to break it up. Irish got a couple broken ribs from his fav bear.

Now if the FishCops had a guy like Irish working for them, he would build a trail of pies deeper and deeper into the bush to save those bears. But not so with the highly educated game wardens of today; their answer is to shoot them. Anything that takes away from their budget for jetboats atv's and the latest fancy truck is dealt with that way.

A similar story (from 5 or 5 years back) was the killing of 8 or 10 M-oose (some with calfs) that wandered into town during a winter with more than usual snow. A couple cowboys with ropes and a large pen with a few bails would have saved those animals but NO a bullet is better and the FishCops know "best". That year a bullet ended up in a balcony after it passed through or missed the M-oose. They then started shooting them with marbles until they got the poor animal in a less public place to kill them. Most of these university trained biology students are afraid of wildlife. These guys and gals are chicken shit, scared what ever you want to call them. Protectors of wildlife they are not.

This issue is bound to be made in to a reality show. So beware FC's you will be demonized if you kill all these animals.

Maybe get a couple of those bear dogs to put the run on them if you can't find a pie man to lead them away to safety. Wildlife officials don't care about the wildlife if their answers are always Shoot Shoot.

My trapper friends would do a better job. They released cougar and wolf from their snares by putting a blanket over them then slipping their hand under to cut the cord with snips. These guys are brave. The cougar was a protected species and the wolf had hair rubbed off its back and was worthless. Boo FishCops boo.

For the life of me I can't figure out why M-oose is a prohibited word. What's up?