"That dead bear in your yard? Keep it, court says"

[kickysnana]

http://www.twincities.com/ci_15354404?source=email
(Note headline is in print edition)

If you find a really big, dead bear on your property, it is a matter of finders keepers.

That is what the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in an intriguing case that weighed the public and private ownership of dead wild animals.

The court ruled that R. James Swenson has a right to keep a trophy bear that likely died of natural causes on his Fifty Lakes farm in northern Minnesota.

The ruling was against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which had confiscated the bear carcass from Swenson....

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I am not so sure this is ruling a good thing (LOL).

[dflprincess]

1. Run TC, run!

Maybe it's only baseball not bears & baseball that do better outside!

[trotsky]

2. LOL

Man, the things that go to court in Minnesota. :)

[happyslug]

3. The Actual Opinion

http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctappub/1006/opa091889-0622.pdf

List of Minnesota Court of Appeals opinions
http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/capdate.html

[Wickerman]

4. I'm hoping it was refrigerated

while awaiting decision.

[becxx]

5. A related issue

A related issue involves protein. Did you know that cockroaches comprise the largest protein mass in the world? Accordingly, if there is ever a famine, keep in mind that if the Appeals Court allows it, we can all eat cockroaches.

I am happy to be able to provide this information as a public service. I am sure it will greatly increase everyone's appetite for dinner.

[krispos42]

6. I don't think I would want a 3-year-old dead bear carcass.

Call me strange...