Don’t hunt bears with blunt blades when drunk!

Police in Massachusetts issued some sage advice: don’t go chasing after bears while drunk and armed with nothing more than a blunt blade.

Black bear sends visitors fleeing in Yellowstone National Park. Image by Todd Ryburn / CC BY 2.0

North Adams police said on their Facebook page that someone did just that. “Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not advised,” the department posted, noting that the man was taken into protective custody “due to his incapacitation from the consumption of alcoholic beverage”.

Officers said anyone who sees a bear should leave it alone and call authorities, adding: “We certainly don’t need anyone going all Davy Crockett.”

(Press Association)