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Governor doesn\u2019t specify whether his desired bear-fighting drones would drop anvils or some other, less cartoony payload<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s common for politicians to make promises about what they\u2019re going to provide their constituents with. Prosperity, Safety. Or, in the case of Norihisa Satake, governor of Japan\u2019s northern Akita Prefecture, his offer\/threat to provide people with bears<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s back up a step. Early in the morning on November 30, a bear broke into a supermarket in Akita City, attacking an employee who suffered injuries to the head and face<\/strong>. After the store was evacuated and sealed off, live-capture cage traps were set up on December 1, and the following day the bear was caught, tranquilized, and culled by electric shock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Since then, the Akita Prefectural government has received 56 phone calls about the incident, with 24 of them expressing disagreement with killing the animal. When the subject of the phone complaints came up during a prefectural assembly budget committee meeting on Tuesday, the governor was asked how he would reply to the complaints, to which the 77-year-old politician answered \u201cIf I received a phone call complaining about that, I would go into full intimidation mode, and say to the person \u2018Tell me your address, because I\u2019m going to ship a bear to you. If you\u2019re worried about them, I\u2019ll send one to your house.\u2019 Do that, and I think they\u2019ll hang up,\u201d<\/strong> adding \u201cThere\u2019s no need to talk with someone who won\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25bc The Japanese language has many words for \u201cyou,\u201d but Satake chose to go with omae<\/em>, one of the ruder ones that\u2019s used when talking to someone who\u2019s beneath you.<\/p>\n Bear attacks have become an increasing concern in rural parts of Japan in recent years, with dwindling numbers of hunters coinciding with more frequent attacks. However, it\u2019s also true that when bears aren\u2019t attacking people, they tend to look really cute, and their occasionally playful sides often earn them even more sympathy, especially from residents of communities where wild animal attacks are unlikely (many of the complaint calls the Akita government received came from outside the prefecture, reportedly). The supermarket incident comes just a few months after an Akita public awareness poster about the danger of wild bear encounters drew reactions that the illustrated creature was too cute to properly convey the safety risks they represent<\/a>.<\/p>\n The question of what to do with wild animals that enter human spaces, especially those that have attacked people, is a complex one, most likely with no single absolutely correct answer. For Satake\u2019s preferred solution, though, he thinks it\u2019d be great if someone developed some new bear-fighting weapons for him<\/strong>. Continuing the ursine discussion at the assembly meeting, Satake spoke on the difficulties of having hunters use rifles to cull bears in populated areas where stray bullets could injure people. \u201cWe could do things like have unmanned drones drop objects from above, or have the bears eat small explosive devices that we could detonate remotely once they\u2019re inside the bears\u2019 stomachs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether Satake didn\u2019t also suggest painting pictures of tunnels on brick walls for bears to run into because the committee had to get back to discussing budget matters, or if it\u2019s just that the governor hasn\u2019t watched those Looney Tunes episodes yet.<\/p>\n Source: Yomiuri Shimbun<\/a>, Sankei Shimbun<\/a><\/em> Governor doesn\u2019t specify whether his desired bear-fighting drones would drop anvils or some other, less cartoony payload. 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