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Another fatal wolf attack - time to remove them?

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gturner

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There's been another fatal wolf attack, this time in Alaska.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects.

The body of Candice Berner, 32, was found Monday off the road a mile outside the village of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, which is about 474 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Authorities said the body had been dragged off the road to the village's lagoon and was surrounded by wolf tracks.

In an autopsy report Thursday, the Alaska State Medical Examiner listed "multiple injuries due to animal mauling" as the cause of death for Berner, a special education teacher originally from Slippery Rock, Pa., who began working in Alaska in August.

The autopsy could not say which animals, said Col. Audie Holloway, head of the Alaska State Troopers, but wolves are the chief suspect.

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"If we're able to actually prove which animal, it will be through some kind of DNA analysis or through some expert that can maybe testify or explain how they know that it's a wolf," he said.

Troopers have plenty of circumstantial evidence leading them to point the finger at wolves.

"There were wolf tracks all around the body, and drag marks associated with those wolf tracks," Holloway said.

Tracks indicated more than one wolf was involved.

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Under 5 feet tall, Berner had boxed and lately had been training for long-distance running.

"She was a gymnast by early training and was in very good physical condition," Luthi said.
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Fox News link

Perhaps the wolves were framed, but let's assume they carried out this grizzly murder. Just ask yourself, "how many more petite gymnasts have to die before people realize that wolves are deadly killers, that they need to be exterminated or put in prisons?"

They can attack without warning, working in groups or "packs" to bring down and murder innocent people. Will one of us be next? This latest incident brings the death toll from wolf attacks in North America to two, and that toll will keep on rising unless someone takes action.
 
I think many more wolves have been killed by humans than men/women have been killed by wolves.
 
Think of how many people have been killed or maimed by dogs; still no-one is suggesting eliminating all dogs.
 
Miss Chicken said:
I think many more wolves have been killed by humans than men/women have been killed by wolves.
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There have been some incidents in India and Russia, but North America has only had two fatal wolf attacks in recorded history (depending on which list you trust), assuming this latest case does turn out to be a wolf attack (perhaps the teacher had a brain aneurysm while jogging - etc).

The previous fatal attack was five years ago in Saskatchewan, but it took them two years to rule out bear involvement.

Still, we wiped out wolves in the lower 48 states of the US without needing a fatal wolf attack as an excuse. Perhaps we were being overprotective, but our gymnasts were safe - except for the occassional attack by a mountain lion.
 
I don't think a gymnast has ever been killed while jogging in Tasmania. It looks like our devils are letting the wildlife side down.
 
Miss Chicken said:
I don't think a gymnast has ever been killed while jogging in Tasmania. It looks like our devils are letting the wildlife side down.
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Yeah, Google said:

No results found for "tasmanian gymnast deaths".

Could there be a link between the extinction of thylacines and the noted lack of gymnast jogging deaths?
 
gturner said:
Miss Chicken said:
I don't think a gymnast has ever been killed while jogging in Tasmania. It looks like our devils are letting the wildlife side down.
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Yeah, Google said:

No results found for "tasmanian gymnast deaths".

Could there be a link between the extinction of thylacines and the noted lack of gymnast jogging deaths?
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Some say that the thylacine isn't extinct. However, if it isn't than it doesn't seem to a suspect in any mysterious deaths/disappearances.

We do have the world's deadliest ants in Tasmania. Luckily, they aren't that big (though they are large for an ant). If they were as big as say a rat Tasmanians would have to barricade their houses.
 
Everyone thought that! But now the body is missing.

*cue spooky music*

Can you imagine how scary it will be when a partially decomposed James Brown zombie jumps out at you, emitting his signature grunt?
 
Much scarier, too. If Michael Jackson jumped out at you, you'd, um, look at him funny and hide the children.

James Brown, on the other hand.

Wo! I feel dead, I knew that I wouldn't of
I feel dead, I knew that I wouldn't of
So dead, so dead, I eat you!
Yo! I eat brains, with sugar and spice
So nice, so nice, I eat you
When I hold you in my arms
I know that I can gnaw your face

etc. etc.


So did James Brown make a pact with Wolfman Jack for eternal life?
 
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