Creek Running North

I could inhale that picture.

Guess that’s why the bear took the train.

Should have, anyway. This is a sign the Park Service puts up where a bear gets roadkilled. Sort of like those roadside crosses. We now await the cross i’d bear jokes.

Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear.

If we respected the second amendment in this country, the bears would have been armed.  No more problem speeding by disrespectful drivers when they see the 600-lb. bear holding a double-barreled shotgun.

And now we have photographic proof that the speeding pope-mobile scared the shit out of some bear in the woods.  Or something.

Oh, poor bear!

We now await the cross i’d bear jokes

It’s a grizzly prospect.

>We now await the cross i’d bear jokes

>It’s a grizzly prospect.

This is going to be unbearable.

>We now await the cross i’d bear jokes

>It’s a grizzly prospect.

>This is going to be unbearable.

it has barely begun

I barely know you all, so I wish you’d stop baring it all.

To expand upon what omegapet wrote:

If we truly honored the Second Amendment (the right to arm bears), then perhaps the sign would read:
“Bears kill speeders”.

I’m not hooked up right. That’s the cross I bear.

Come on, punsters. It was just a Kodiak moment. No need to get so Polarized.

Speeders should be forced to kiss ursine behinds. That would be very embearassing.

I thought bears were supposed to cross mountains, not roads.

I love the sign, and the sentiment that caused someone to think of putting them up.

Not long back, I saw a dead beaver on the road near where I live. My friend best expressed the anger I felt—“Dammit, it’s not as if a beaver DASHES into the road!”

I can imagine hitting a deer that bounds out onto the road. And recently, I myself almost hit a cat that practically blurred as it rocketed out into the road in front of me.

But most of the critters struck on roads are killed by people just too unaware to notice what’s happening on the roadside.

Hitting a bear is hard for me to forgive. They CAN run fast, but they usually don’t. Park bears are notorious for their deliberate gait, and are usually plenty big enough to notice.

Bears should be ursine, and not hurt.

It IS an ur-sign, isn’t it.

There’s trouble bruin in these comments.

There’s trouble bruin in these comments.

I prefer to think of it as Caniformia Dreamin’, which could be an alternate name for this blog, come to think of it.

Er, sign me up if there’s brewin’ goin’ on…

Dammit, it’s not as if a beaver DASHES into the road!

I saw a dead turtle on the street just down from our house the other day.  I thought of putting up a sign of my own.

Oh, right on, Hank!  Thank you for saying that.

The naturalist Archie Fairly Carr wrote of people who intentionally swerve to run over road-crossing turtles: “there is probably nothing much that can be done about these people except to hope they skid.”