Quote of the Day

Posted by Chris Spags on November 24th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

A hunter in Pennsylvania killed a bear that’s officially the heaviest one ever bagged in the state. Small problem: Townspeople loved the bear and are now really upset. And it gets even crazier from there.

Dubbed Bozo, the black bear was a fixture in the area around Fernwood Resorts, eating from restaurant trash bins and sometimes letting people pet him. But the 879-pound bear was killed by a hunter Nov. 15 on the first day of archery season.

“I’m devastated. I’m just devastated,” said Leroy Lewis, 71, the former resort groundskeeper who began feeding the then-cub more than a decade ago. “I mean I feel like I lost a friend.”

Lewis said the bear would come knock on the door when he was hungry.

“I fed him for 17 years, and I raised him from a cub,” Lewis told the Stroudsburg Pocono Record. “He loved doughnuts and anything sweet. I was never scared of him.”

Record-setting bear was community ‘mascot’ before being killed by hunter [PennLive]

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