Bro, what a shock I got! I was sitting quietly with a beer at Fane's on the terrace when I hear someone say a tragedy happened in Brașov. An 11-year-old she-bear was shot on Sunday on Jepilor Street after she entered the city and refused to listen to those acoustic signals the authorities use to chase away the beasts. I mean, dude, she didn't react to anything, she just stood there like a rock. And just like that, she got the bullet.
Now, listen to how it went down. The Brașov City Hall said in a statement that they were alerted by several reports from locals. At first, people said it was a she-bear with two cubs, but when the team got there, they actually found two she-bears: one with three cubs and one alone, without cubs. The other one, with the cubs, was smarter: she heard the signal and retreated nicely into the forest. But this one, the 11-year-old female, didn't want to know. She stayed there, probably scared or stubborn, and then the team was "forced" to extract her. Meaning shoot her, bro. That's what they call it, "extraction."
Now, let's be serious: this isn't the first time bears have come down to Brașov. In recent weeks, authorities have repeatedly intervened to remove or extract bears that came into neighborhoods looking for food. But every time I hear about something like this, I think of Mioara, who complains that too many bears enter the city, but she also says it's a shame to shoot an animal just because it's hungry. And she's right, bro. After all, we invaded their habitat, not the other way around.
City Hall representatives explained that the she-bear with cubs reacted to the signals and retreated, but the other one "did not react and continued to stay in the area," so they decided on extraction. Really, man, it seemed like a simple solution, but I don't know, still... I think of Tyson, my dog, who runs from the vacuum cleaner. If it had been a scared she-bear, maybe she wouldn't have reacted to an acoustic signal either.
The conclusion? Brașov, the city at the foot of Tâmpa, is increasingly visited by bears. And I look at Brian, who dreams of moving there, and I wonder: what do we do, bro? Shoot everything that moves or find a more humane solution? For now, I'm going to feed Tyson and tell him to behave, because I don't want him to end up "extracted" too.
