About eight years ago, a bear attacked my chicken coop. Image
I was a bit puzzled about what to do when something like this happens. So I called the county and told them that a bear had attacked my chicken coop.
So they bounced me to the correct department and I described what had happened. They asked me a bunch of basic question -- where I lived, whether anyone had seen the bear, and so on.
Finally, the guy on the other end of the line said, "I think I can issue you a permit". I was puzzled. Did I need a permit to have my chickens eaten by a bear?
He said, "To shoot the bear". I was confused. I said something like, "Me? Shoot the bear? Like with a gun?"
I assured him that there was absolutely no conceivable circumstance under which I would deliberately confront a bear, with or without weapons of any kind. And I politely declined the offer of a permit.
I'm pretty sure that when I said "Me? Shoot the bear? Like with a gun?" it was in a little girl's voice.

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