Yeah,
don't chase bears with hatchets;
Police in North Adams are urging residents to refrain from chasing bears through the woods in the Western Massachusetts community while wielding a blade — in case it wasn’t already obvious.
“We certainly don’t need anyone going all Davy Crockett chasing it through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet. It is just a bad idea and not going to end well. It will, however, certainly end you up in jail … which it did,” police said in a notice posted to the department’s Facebook page Monday night.
Two dispatchers who answered the phone at police headquarters Tuesday morning confirmed that the notice on the department’s Facebook page was legitimate, but could not comment on the incident. The post was shared more than 1,000 times.
North Adams police sergant James Burdick said the report about the bear-chasing man was a first for him.
