Seriously? Bears and Bureaucracy: A Comedy of Errors
You know, I thought California wildlife management couldnt possibly get more absurd. Apparently, I was wrong. Let’s recap this masterpiece of incompetence, shall we? An Altadena man has a bear living under his house – because, of course he does. What else is new in the land of sunshine and existential dread? Instead of, you know, advising him to maybe not leave out piles of tempting garbage, these experts decide the solution is to lure the bear out with…what? A gourmet picnic basket? An engraved invitation?
Because thats clearly going to end well.
And guess what happened? They caught the wrong bear! Seriously! The animal they tranquilized and hauled away wasn’t even the problematic ursine resident of the man’s foundation. It was just some innocent, presumably hungry, bear minding its own business. I can practically hear the collective groan of the local ecosystem.
Its a perfect encapsulation of everything that’s wrong with government intervention – well-intentioned, utterly clueless, and ultimately making things worse. You want to solve a problem? Maybe try understanding why it exists in the first place. But no, lets just spend taxpayer dollars chasing bears around like Keystone Cops, only to capture a completely innocent bystander. Bravo, California. Truly impressive.
