Motorcyclist Stops To Feed Bears, Ends Up On The Menu

One logic motorcyclists emotion doing what we do is that we are riding through quality alternatively than watching it spell by from wrong an air-conditioned cage. But location are limits to really adjacent we should get to said nature. One Italian rider sewage a spot excessively adjacent to a carnivore and mislaid his life arsenic a result.

The incident occurred connected nan celebrated Transfagarasan Highway. This upland roadworthy is for illustration a roller coaster pinch its turns and elevation changes, making it a well-known favourite of Jeremy Clarkson and a bucket database roadworthy of our ain Andy Kalmowitz. According to Observator News, a 48-year-old motorcyclist stopped to provender nan bears respective times on his journey; The Independent has identified him as Omar Farang Zin. His astir caller Facebook station from July 2, 2025, has respective photos of bears along the adjacent Transalpina highway, including a selfie pinch one. Observator News reports that Zin was actively taking pictures and video of nan carnivore that killed him adjacent the Vidraru Dam, and that he offered nan carnivore food. Authorities recovered his telephone nearby.

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The Transfagarasan area has go rather celebrated pinch bears arsenic good arsenic humans, starring to inevitable clashes. Overpopulation has go a problem, starring to nan bears depleting earthy nutrient sources and turning to humans who voluntarily provender them instead. Feeding nan bears has go a celebrated activity, contempt informing signs, fines, and it being a mostly bad idea. The bears person gotten rather utilized to group and locomotion correct up to them fearlessly. The Romanian authorities already doubled nan number of yearly permitted carnivore kills past year, and is considering removing their protected position altogether to effort and get nan organization nether control.

These measures wouldn't beryllium basal if group would conscionable extremity feeding nan bears. The organization would people driblet backmost to a sustainable level, and nan bears that stay would person nary logic to attack and onslaught humans for food, making nan area safer for everyone. Bears may look cute, but they're still chaotic animals, and chaotic animals of immoderate type whitethorn onslaught astatine immoderate clip without warning. Just ask Boris Johnson. As the National Park Service says, "Don't pet nan fluffy cows."