"I'm going to chase it off with a broom."

Half-cocked said:

What valuable lessons can we learn from this, boys and girls?

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The son-in-law of Donna Munson told 7NEWS that Munson was trying to help a smaller bear that had gotten into a fight with an older bear on Aug 7. The smaller bear suffered broken teeth in the brawl, Munson told her family.

Munson told her brother by telephone that she was putting out hard-boiled eggs and milk for the younger bear to eat, said the victim's son-in-law, Bruce Milne.

Munson told her brother Thursday night that the older bear was back and said, "I'm going to chase it off with a broom."

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When deputies arrived to investigate the report of a mauling on Friday, they were approached by a 250-pound bear, which was actively sniffing the body. A deputy with the Ouray Sheriff's Office fired six rounds and killed the bear. A necropsy on that bear showed that it neither attacked nor fed on Munson.

On Saturday about 3 a.m., a second bear was acting aggressively towards investigators who were still at the house. A Division of Wildlife investigator shot and killed that bear -- a 400-pound male bear.

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kstone803 said:

The wire she put up around her house looked better suited to stop raccoons not bears. Crazy people do crazy things. Remember grizzly man???

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The coroner said her official cause of death was multiple trauma due to a bear attack. The manner of death was ruled to be accidental.

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Punchabearinnamouf said:

That the only good way to deal with a bear problem is to punch it in da mouf?

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Punchabearinnamouf said:

That the only good way to deal with a bear problem is to punch it in da mouf?

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vette97 said:

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Rough_Rider said:

In related news, the family of the 250 lb bear are now suing the Ouray Sherrif's Office and the Town of Ouray, Colorado for wrongful death.

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