I, having not always been the most upstanding of youths, have made up many stories to protect my hide. CYA is something learned at a very young age.
But I was taken aback when I read the lame excuse that was provided for the bear cub story.
From Huffington Post
The students told authorities they took political signs at random to cover the bear's wound and prevent blood from spilling into the bed of the truck they were driving.
They discovered a carcass of the cub, which had been shot in the head, while camping over the weekend and brought it back to a gathering at an apartment near campus Sunday night, according to a statement from the school.
These guys are making this up. The notion that while camping in western North Carolina 7 college kids grabbed random signs to protect the bed of their truck and all those signs happened to be Obama signs defies imagination. I am not from the area, but I am intimately familiar with the south. The notion that the random signs that were readily available in western NC were Obama signs is hard enough to believe, but did they not have garbage bags while camping? Was the campsite, that was far enough from civilization to have a dead bear laying around, actually have Obama signs?
Why was the cub still bleeding if not a fresh kill. This whole story stinks.
I am not wishing these kids any hardship because I did many stupid things in college as well, but can we all agree that we just got served and okeydoke.
BTW, I am going to see Obama in Leesburg, VA today. I'll take some pics and get a flickr account and have my wife post them since my diary for the day is done.
From the comments:
That Crazy Mom Over There
I was reading this and went down through the comments a bit after asking myself a few questions. Now I've never been out camping for more than a night, but I don't recall EVER taking a stapler with me. What am I gonna do, staple bark together for a bed?
The point of the bleeding was also another one that ran through my head.
And as someone else pointed out on the comment, when you go camping you're carrying packs of about 40-50 lbs, along with a cub bear of 75lb?!
And it JUST so happened that they found this dead bear cub?
No, this whole story reeks, but the police obviously don't want to really get to the truth of the matter so will let it go. I'm guessing it's due to pressure from the college, and they do not want the mark on their record, rather than taking a stand and saying this is not acceptable.
From jiordan
Not damn thing makes me believe this story.
I'm from "those parts" as it were. Obama signs are a rare bird--the ones that appear usually get stolen.
Still bleeding? Then the people that found it killed it.
Don't buy it.