'I tried telling them to stop': Video shows people yank bear cubs from tree for selfie
State officials in North Carolina are investigating after a group of people were captured on video yanking black bear cubs from a tree to take a selfie.
The unsettling scene took place outside an Asheville apartment complex about 3 p.m. Tuesday, the Citizen Times, part of the USA TODAY Network reported. The city is in the western portion of the state near the Tennessee state line.
It is illegal to disturb a bear den in North Carolina under state law.
If a den is disturbed by people, bears can be inadvertently exposed from their den and cubs can become orphaned or die, according to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, which is investigating this incident.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tried-telling-them-stop-video-144639818.html
Fucking assholes, they're lucky momma bear wasn't nearby. She'd probably rip their heads off.
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My grandmother moved to a retirement community near Asheville and we often visited the Western North Carolina Nature Center which was for animals who could no longer live in the wild. It was a lovely place which was populated by animals ranging from deer and otters to big cats that people had adopted until they got too large. 
