I’ve never understood why a black bear stood for years outside the BP station on the Post Road, near South Maple.
Then again, I’ve never understood gas companies in general.
Yet this late night/early morning vandalism is hard to fathom:
Word on the street is that surveillance cameras caught the toppling — and hand-chopping.
Surveillance helped one night in August 2007 too, when the bear was actually stolen by a guy who’d just bought cigarettes. According to WestportNow, he (the bear, not the vandal) stood 3 to 4 feet tall, weighed 75 to 100 pounds, and was valued at $600.
Moral to anyone else thinking of messing with BP: You can run, but you can’t hide.
From a bear, or a surveillance video.
(Hat tip to Elizabeth Beller)
I think the real criminal activity here (and in 2007) are the prices charged by the station operators (it’s .30¢ cheaper just down the street).
I agree with Matt, however…really…vandalizing in such a malicious way? I think they need to make the person replace it in kind and also pay for a mate! Place on route 7 makes chain saw bears….probably where this one comes from.
As Smokey topped off his Bronco, he took a call from Mrs. Smokey. Suddenly he remembered that talking on your cell phone while pumping gas is really uncool fire safety-wise. Too late. Only you…
Love the Boydisms, too.
… can prevent Mrs. Smokey’s dinner going to waste?
How I adore the Boydisms… they take my mind off of parking issues…
– NHW (thinking black bears are not a common site, and now less so, in Fairfield County)
Hmm. How is it that “tweetiejo” doesn’t have to provide a real name when I do? Should this clique need to notice such mishaps in its management?
– Nancy Hunter Wilson
Nancy, can you cut me a break, please? I can’t monitor comments 24/7/365. I ask people to use real names when I get a chance. Jo Shields Dickison (tweetiejo) signs in with her WordPress account, and sometimes forgets to change it. I change it when I can. Please chill out.
You mean you aren’t fired (yet)?
Chill out? We’re in the midst of a heat wave here in western Canada, with forest fires burning, or about to burn, fires that would make Smokey weep.
– Nancy Hunter Wilson (who has learned not to shoot the messenger)
Stop. Please. Just stop.
– Jerry MacDaid (who hopes he knows when to stop)
Not living directly in Westport, but having an opinion, seems to be unseemly here.
My comments are no different from the others.
– Nancy Hunter Wilson
Dan, I realize now that my comment above may have been misunderstood.
I was reacting to another recent post (one I didn’t have a chance to read because of time change?) by someone not giving their name, a comment that you deleted.
Now I understand. Apologies to both you and Jo.
– Nancy Hunter Wilson
That’s it, Dan!!! You’re fired! 😀