Petersburg Police Chief James Kerr presents images to the borough assembly of damage caused to garbage cans by black bears defeating the ratchet straps meant to deter bears from the containers.
The Petersburg Borough Assembly narrowly rejected a resolution Monday that would have authorized police to dispatch approximately four black bears that Petersburg Police Chief James Kerr says his officers have identified through repeated unsuccessful attempts at non-lethal deterrence.
The resolution failed by a single vote after Kerr presented evidence of what he described as "learned behavior" by specific bears.
"We've tried paintballs, pepper balls," Kerr told the Pilot. "Pepper balls is like pepper spray, but the powder. We'll shoot the bears with it, they breathe it in, they sneeze, they h...
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