Police Shoot Bear That Wanders Into Hospital

[matcom]

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ROCKY MOUNT, Va. -- Perhaps visiting hours were over.

Police shot and killed a full-grown black bear that wandered into a hospital Tuesday. The 300-pound male bear wandered in front of Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital at about 9:10 p.m. and activated a sensor that opens the hospital's doors, police said.

The bear wandered down a few hallways and into a computer room, said Lt. Karl Martin of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Two police officers yanked the door shut behind it.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3424560/detail.html

[JohnLocke]

1. Did the bear go to medical school?

:D

[Solly Mack]

2. aahhhhh...couldn't they have just tranquilized it?

poor bear :(

hospital full or not..they could have knocked it out, carried it out, and set it free elsewhere.

[Zorra]

3. Hope they gave the meat and the hide to some family that

could use it.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Rocky Mount. When I went to school in VA

one of my friends was from Rocky Mount. He used to keep us well stocked in moonshine. He would go home on the weekend and come back with about 10 gallons of the stuff. One for us and the rest to sell.
Honeydew vinewater.

[ugarte]

5. Probably didn't have health insurance

That's what they do to you in this country.

[XNASA]

6. Yogi!!!!!!!

"Heeeeeyyy Boo-Boo! I wonder which way it is to the cafeteri-ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!"

Poor thing.

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. He probably didn't see the sign...

No bear feet.

[dr.strangelove]

8. A bear went into My father-in-laws house in April

My father-in-law lives in Northern NJ. A bear broke open his back door and ate all his cereal. He appeared to like frosted flakes the best. Anyway, dad was in the basement at the time. He called the state police, who were resonding in the neighborhood already to other calls about the bear. They cornered him in the backyard and shot him with a few darts. State animal control took him and released him.

These bears, first they want free food, then they want free healthcare at hospitals.