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mindwok on Nov 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Mont...

Yeah, agree. The article takes "bears killed by trains each year" and then "one guy said sometimes they are drunk on spilled grain" and then interpolated for hyperbole.

AnimalMuppet on Nov 6, 2023 [–]

No, some of them are objectively drunk on spilled grain. It happens. Railroad maintenance-of-way workers run into them sometimes.

I don't know what fraction of bears killed by trains are drunk, though. I don't know if anyone knows. At least, I have not seen any sources.

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