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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jun 10, 2021, 06:12 PM Jun 2021

Bear found stuck on power pole in southern Arizona city yesterday

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) — A bear in Arizona emerged unscathed from quite the power trip when it became stuck on a utility pole.

Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative, a utility company based in the southern Arizona city of Willcox, was notified Monday morning that a bear was tangled in power pole wires on the outskirts of town.

Werner Neubauer, a company lineman, said they immediately disabled the power so the animal would not get electrocuted. Neubauer then went up in a bucket lift and used an 8-foot (2-meter) fiberglass stick to try to nudge the bear to go down. He even tried talking to it.

“I think I told him I was gonna help him get down the pole,” Neubauer said. “I know he couldn’t understand me. But it did get his attention.”



https://apnews.com/article/arizona-bears-oddities-feedb093bc605aaab3d67d406943890b
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Bear found stuck on power pole in southern Arizona city yesterday (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2021 OP
Wowza super dangerous for the bear soothsayer Jun 2021 #1
It is so dry here Kali Jun 2021 #2
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