Opinion
A black bear wandered into the Dollar General in Vernon, Sussex County, startling shoppers. Local real estate agent Sean Clarkin quickly stepped in, guiding the bear through the aisles and out the front door of the store
Guess he was hungry https://t.co/s3RoygQave pic.twitter.com/iBCQnUCgxX
— Wake Up NJ New Jersey (@wakeupnj) September 17, 2025
“They mostly come at night” ~ Rebecca “Newt” Jorden (played by Carrie Henn) in the 1986 feature film, “Aliens II,” staring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn.
An adult black bear wandered into a Dollar General store in Vernon, NJ, last month and promptly bit a woman. She had to be evacuated and hospitalized.
The bear wandered around the store for a few more minutes but eventually exited. However, once outside, she continued to act aggressively and was ultimately shot and killed by local police.
Such “negative interactions” between humans and large predators are occurring in increasing numbers across the nation, no doubt!
“Experts” say that attacks upon humans by bears are “rare”
… that is, until you’re the one attacked. Then, the chances of “being attacked by a bear” instantly become one-hundred percent. “Experts” often overlook this!
Hunting bans, trapping bans, hunter harassment, predator reintroduction, and persecution of citizens who shoot threatening animals in legitimate self-defense are all predictably combining to manufacture this dangerous setting.
The forced “reintroduction” of apex predators (wolves, mountain lions, bears) into areas where they have long been eradicated means populations will grow, and citizens will encounter those same predators with increasing frequency.
Yet today, any citizen who dares “euthanatize” an overtly dangerous predator runs the very real risk of ending-up in prison, particularly in NJ!
My comment:
Ignorance may be bliss, but it’s not a “strategy” one can live by!
Instead of exiting immediately and getting away, many in that NJ Dollar General store started filming the bear at very close range! What kind of people intentionally get that close to a wild bear that “is acting strangely?”
When confronting such imminent lethal threats, “communicate” (also taking videos) should be way down on your priority list!
First on your priority list is either
- (1) immediately neutralize the threat (via gunfire), or
- (2) straightaway disengage and separate. Either way, you can communicate (and take photos) after you’ve withdrawn to a relatively safe place.
With regard to the first option, our liberal media has cynically manufactured the myth that serviceable “smart-gun” technology actually exists. A simple device, which can be added to any firearm, will prevent anyone but the legal, adult owner from discharging it, and mandating that this “simple device” be incorporated into every firearm will instantly reduce gun violence.
Rubbish!
Useable “smart-gun technology” does not exist (despite billions squandered to “invent” it). It has never existed. All attempts to create it have failed so completely that no sane person would ever bet his life on some future gun that will claim to incorporate it.
Curiously, in 2002, when NJ’s Democratic “leadership” abortively attempted to mandate “smart guns” for all NJ citizens, the governor’s bodyguard detail was conspicuously exempted, because the whole thing would be “impractical” for them.
Imagine that!
/John
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That entire exchange was predicated on two irrational assumptions: One, that the bear understood the English language; and two, that the bear would follow orders. The idiot is lucky he’s not a pile of beat sh!t.
that guy was a extremely lucky moron, thinking he was leading the bear out of the store. that bear was doing a slow pursuit and waiting for his moment to strike.
This bear was just looking for the charmin.
People getting close to aggressive bears is merely part of the valued gene pool cleansing process…..
The only thing that makes a gun “smart” is the intelligence and training of the person holding it. These days the presence of those two factors in the population is increasingly in doubt.
One of the craziest phenomenon in America besides the “selfie” insanity is the anthropomorphism (assigning human traits to animals) many, many people are afflicted with. Damn Walt Disney, LOL. Seriously though, these folks are unthinking. I see it daily in my little town. We are a small beach town with big tourism and Snowbird features. We have an out of proportion Deer/Black Bear situation. In the Winter months the Deer out number the full time residents 2 or 3 to 1. The Bears are relatively new but they are growing in numbers fast. Tourists and locals too, shut their brains… Read more »
I saw a bear cub barreling down a city sidewalk in Gatlinburg one morning with 2 bags of Doritos.
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