We're awfully fond of bears. Maybe it's that we were born under the Bear Flag, maybe it's our affinity for envisioning Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill in a Gentle Ben costume during idle moments, or maybe it's all the time we spent down on Folsom Street when we lived in the Bay Area, but regardless, the fact that car-versus-bear accidents have doubled in South Carolina in the last year really has us bummed. It's an unfortunate and sad by-product of human encroachment into the animals' natural habitat. And it sure must leave a nasty dent.
Cars killing more coastal area black bears [Myrtle Beach Online]
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