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[oakenguy]

Newsweek has a little article this week on bear hunters in North Carolina, and how they've been luring bears using half-ton blocks of candy. Game wardens have been coming across gorging, blissed-out bears in sugar comas.

Half-ton.

Blocks.

Of candy.

For apparently candy factories compress their discarded product into huge cubes, and sell the cubes at a discount.

The factories say they're shocked, and will no longer sell these blocks to anyone suspected of being a bear hunter. Leaving who else for a customer base, exactly? Fairytale witches who want to build a two-story brownstone to lure Hansel and Gretel?

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

The idea of blissed out bears makes me grin a lot, but honestly, how someone could /shoot/ a blissed out bear is so beyond me. I honestly believe that virtually everyone I know, confronted with a blissed out bear, would drop their hands to their sides and stagger back, dazzled by the cute rays. Hunters are clearly a different species.

I like the idea of a half-ton block of candy, because one could make sculptures by strategic applications of hot water. You could make little candy cave formations, or model castles, or - bears! It would take a lot of practice to get it good, of course, and you'd have a lot of rejected efforts to dispose of in the process, but...