Lowlanders. Our word for city folks up here in the North Georgia Mountains. Come up here thinking they're all outdoorsie and shit cause they drive a Subaru and have tents and mountain bikes. Then they get stuck, or bit by coyote pup they thought was cute or do some other stupid shit. My friends are kinder than me and assist. I drive by with windows open telling them to go back from where they came as they won't survive long here.
Or as we call 'em, "flatlanders". I see them parked along a portion of one of our scenic roads in the White Mountains, looking at a moose in the marsh next to the road. I keep waiting from one of them do something incredibly stupid like approach a moose or a moose calf and triggering Mama Moose to come charging towards them and flattening them. Full grown moose can weigh as much as 1200 pounds up here.
Then there's the folks 'playing' with the black bears like the morons in #6. Friggin' idiots.
Very interesting. I've been told, when I'm out in Wyoming fishing and riding horses, that Moose are incredibly dangerous, especially when they have calves with them. I was advised to carry a firearm of some type so I bought and S & W 500. Now the locals tell me I'm good for moose and grizzlies (which they don't have in that part of the state).
+1 My family moved from Massachussetts to Washington state in 1960. Dad drove us across the country with a stop in Yellowstone. We have home movies of idiots parked along the side of the road throwing food to the bears trying to coax them closer. The absolute winner was some lady who was trying to get a couple of cubs to come down out of a tree not realizing that mama bear was walking up behind her. The lady survived the encounter, but I was rooting for Mother Nature.
#6: I'm not big on wishing harm on people, but I'm genuinely disappointed that she didn't get mauled at least a little. Some people just have it coming for being so stupid.
#7: There's a good reason for the saying "let sleeping dogs lie." Also, they're not pillows ffs.
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ReplyDelete#2 Saying his doggie prayers before lunch.
ReplyDelete#5 is a keeper.
ReplyDeleteWrong, she could leave you and carry everything you have with her...
DeleteMaybe, or maybe she'd just carry you away. She's worth keeping.
DeleteWonder if she can make a sammish as well?
DeleteIf she can bring you that much beer, who needs a sammish?
DeleteIf she hit you, you'd know it!
Delete#6. It's all fun and games until the mauling starts.
ReplyDeleteLowlanders. Our word for city folks up here in the North Georgia Mountains. Come up here thinking they're all outdoorsie and shit cause they drive a Subaru and have tents and mountain bikes. Then they get stuck, or bit by coyote pup they thought was cute or do some other stupid shit. My friends are kinder than me and assist. I drive by with windows open telling them to go back from where they came as they won't survive long here.
DeleteOr as we call 'em, "flatlanders". I see them parked along a portion of one of our scenic roads in the White Mountains, looking at a moose in the marsh next to the road. I keep waiting from one of them do something incredibly stupid like approach a moose or a moose calf and triggering Mama Moose to come charging towards them and flattening them. Full grown moose can weigh as much as 1200 pounds up here.
DeleteThen there's the folks 'playing' with the black bears like the morons in #6. Friggin' idiots.
Yeah, that goes for #7, also. She's lucky she didn't lose an ear or a nose.
DeleteVery interesting. I've been told, when I'm out in Wyoming fishing and riding horses, that Moose are incredibly dangerous, especially when they have calves with them. I was advised to carry a firearm of some type so I bought and S & W 500. Now the locals tell me I'm good for moose and grizzlies (which they don't have in that part of the state).
Delete3. When I say off, I mean off.
ReplyDelete#4 Burn the car.
ReplyDelete#6 I've seen this behavior in Yellowstone and here in the Great Smoky Mountains. My conclusion...Life ain't for everybody.
ReplyDelete+1 My family moved from Massachussetts to Washington state in 1960. Dad drove us across the country with a stop in Yellowstone. We have home movies of idiots parked along the side of the road throwing food to the bears trying to coax them closer. The absolute winner was some lady who was trying to get a couple of cubs to come down out of a tree not realizing that mama bear was walking up behind her. The lady survived the encounter, but I was rooting for Mother Nature.
DeleteMy uncle was a game warden in the Smokies. The stories he would tell about idiot Yankees….
Delete#7 looks like she scared the shit out of what looks like an older dog just trying to nap in peace
ReplyDelete#6: I'm not big on wishing harm on people, but I'm genuinely disappointed that she didn't get mauled at least a little. Some people just have it coming for being so stupid.
ReplyDelete#7: There's a good reason for the saying "let sleeping dogs lie." Also, they're not pillows ffs.
#5 So the people that get the beers on the bottom will be putting there mouths on the ones that sat on the dirty counter.
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