Setting Free the Bear

An alternately sad, then wonderful, yet potentially tragic story about nature’s greatest animal: “Boo”, a grizzly bear living in a wildlife refuge in British Columbia, has escaped for a second time in order to pick up chicks. To do so, he broke through a 180kg (about 400 lbs) steel door and stormed over a 4m (over 12 ft) high electrified fence, an enclosure that was thought to be escape-proof. The 480kg (over 1000 lbs) bear is certainly determined to get some action, as he was recently spotted from a helicopter in the company of another bear (who is undoubtedly a female).

How many times did something wrong happen here?

1. Somebody illegally shoots Boo’s mother, making him an orphan. (Incidentally, if I knew who did this, I’d put them in an “enclosure” with Boo, no guns allowed.)
2. They take Boo and put him in captivity, and keep him there indefinitely.
3. After escaping one time, the capture him and put him back in captivity.
4. They say stupid things like “Boo didn’t know how good he had it.” Like they know what’s good for a bear. I imagine if he wanted to get out so badly, it wasn’t that great living in an enclosure without any females. This is like telling a convict “you don’t know how good you’ve got it here in prison.”
5. They propose castrating the bear if they catch him to remove his temptation to escape.

I hope they never find him.