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Taken from Yahoo News...
My father tipped me off to this story. How bizarre.. and rare.

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Bear Kills 5-Month-Old Girl in N.Y.
Mon Aug 19, 8:06 PM ET

FALLSBURG, N.Y. (AP) - A bear killed a 5-month-old girl Monday after knocking her out of a stroller and trying to drag the infant into the woods, officials said.



The child had been in the stroller in front of the porch of a bungalow with members of her family when the bear grabbed the stroller, said Mike Fraser, a state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman.

Isaac Abraham, a community leader from Williamsburg in Brooklyn, said people desperately tried to save the girl.

"People started chasing the bear, throwing rocks at it," he said.

The girl's father was able to get her away from the bear, and the animal ran away. A short time later, DEC officers and police shot the bear.

Ward Stone, the state's chief pathologist, said it was the first time he could remember a black bear killing a human.

"In all my many years, 34 summers, we've had them eat birdseed, get into trouble eating dog food in people's yards but black bears are just not noted for attacking humans," Stone said.

The attack happened about 70 miles northwest of New York City, in the heart of what is known as the Borscht Belt. Big hotels and bungalows attracted thousands of visitors each summer, many of them Jewish families from New York City. Scattered bungalow colonies still remain.
Artex
7:09:13 PM
8/19/02

When will people learn not to put food in their babies?
bacpac
7:11:15 PM
8/19/02

omigod
Trik1
7:12:23 PM
8/19/02

thats just wrong!
prowler
7:13:42 PM
8/19/02

bacpac
Your a cold, cold person....... But I can't help but laugh at your humor!! LOL
walkindude
7:18:42 PM
8/19/02

Bacpac, you will now need to visit confession.
Catholic Priest
7:20:28 PM
8/19/02

oh yea. he's going to hell.
Trik1
7:32:18 PM
8/19/02

housing area?
do you think it was going for the food scent on the kid, i assume.

canada had a kid mauled to deth when a bear wanted the samlon on the stringer attached to his trousers
Trik1
7:35:41 PM
8/19/02

pants. whatever
Trik1
8:00:28 PM
8/19/02

It's probably the food scent on the kid, plus some urban idiots were probably conditioning the bear with their feeding. Poor kid, poor family and poor bear.
stanlee
8:16:31 PM
8/19/02

New York?
Isn't that up around Tennessee?
gojo
3:43:20 PM
8/20/02

Bacpac, funny but mean, still laughing.
Scary stuff though, man I can't imagine. Maybe it was because the child is small, and did not present any threat at all to the bear. Just some speculation.
tahoe
3:31:21 PM
8/23/02

Yep.
Easy prey.
Poor kid...
gojo
3:34:14 PM
8/23/02

And did you know the Amish eat their dead??













LMAO!! private joke... hehehee
lizs
3:36:26 PM
8/23/02

HOLY WOMBAT SH*T!
gore tex
8:00:35 PM
8/23/02

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