When I was a kid, my shit/mean cousin (he was 12, I was 10) dared me to pee on an electrical fence which held the cows in a limited pasture. You can imagine how THAT turned out!
(I can hardly understand why he was so mean... nor can I understand how I was so stupid... we used to wake up in the morning and see who could fill up the most pop bottles with pee... and we used to slosh around in the creek and grab frogs and put them on the girls and make them scream... kids!)
~ 5 years ago,l I remember my wife saying something got into the sweet corn.
So I went out there.
It looked like a small car/ATV had been driving around and in the rows of sweet corn.
But the corn that was laying on the ground
had half ears bitten off and eaten, like eating apples.
It was a black bear that climbed over the electric fence.
Turns out the GFCI outlet had been tripped, and the fence was off, all night.
Also turns out, black bears can hear in the range that high voltage runs.
So the bear knew the electric fence was off.
Dumb animals, yeah right.
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Also, for you city folks out there, bears don't feel paiin (not the way people do)
I once had a nest of yellowjackets just behind the house.
It was mid-August. The stinging insects would be gone soon.
But then I saw a very strange sight.
A large black bear walked right past the house.
Less than 50 feet away.
When the bear left, I ran back to where the yellowjacket nest was (in the ground).
The nest was dug up, most of the stinging insects were eaten by the bear.
Pieces of honeycomb were strewn over the back lawn.
Yikes.
Those bears are not for petting.
