Park County teen takes action against invading bear

Just be careful of shooting a bear unless you have rubber buckshot provided by the Division of Wildlife. If you shoot a bear, lion etc you could be fined near $10,000 and they will investigate. If they feel the wildlife did not immently cause you to feel you were in fear of losing your life it could go against you. That is one hefty fine. Call the Division of Wildlife to find have the rubber buckshot sent to you.

Other alternitives is to hang a rag soaked in Ammonia hanging outside your garage, it confuses the Bears sense of smell or pour a couple capfuls of Ammonia in your trash bags,
Put an unwelcome matt outside your garage door, windows or any entrance made up of pieces of board with nails driven through it and placing the board with the nails exposed, like a bed of nails.
They won't come back once they step on it.

The exposed nails would do a pretty good job of scaring off the UPS and Fedex people too....

Nobody that matters wrote: The exposed nails would do a pretty good job of scaring off the UPS and Fedex people too....

And making it difficult to park in the garage.

YOu made me laugh

You only place them outside your garage door at night and make sure to pick them up and put them away so you don't drive over them. Bears seem to be most active at night

Thanks PetParent for this response. I hope DOW, now DPW, investigates. Based on the article, it doesn't look as if she was in danger as the bear was running off. There are much better alternatives. So she runs outside with two guns when she hears a commotion? Different than being in fear for her life. I hope someone teaches her better methods of conducting herself before she kills someone. I am an advocate of owning guns, but there is also responsibility that comes with ownership. We know the bear, we know the location. She could have injured others in her line of sight. It wasn't necessary to shoot it, so many better alternatives.

ThePetParent wrote: Just be careful of shooting a bear unless you have rubber buckshot provided by the Division of Wildlife. If you shoot a bear, lion etc you could be fined near $10,000 and they will investigate. If they feel the wildlife did not immently cause you to feel you were in fear of losing your life it could go against you. That is one hefty fine. Call the Division of Wildlife to find have the rubber buckshot sent to you.

Other alternitives is to hang a rag soaked in Ammonia hanging outside your garage, it confuses the Bears sense of smell or pour a couple capfuls of Ammonia in your trash bags,
Put an unwelcome matt outside your garage door, windows or any entrance made up of pieces of board with nails driven through it and placing the board with the nails exposed, like a bed of nails.
They won't come back once they step on it.

The girl is a minor. Clearly child services should immediately remove her from her home and after her parents are executed, placed in an orphanage.