[pct-l] Yogi & Booboo

["Brooks Hull" <bhull@CA-F1.umd.umich.edu>]

I was at Yosemite early this summer.  The bears easily cause 
$500,000,000 in losses (not actual damage).  It works like this.  The 
bears pose as valet parking attendants at the lodge--which only 
attracts the richest visitors with the nicest cars.  The bears steal 
the cars (which causes insurances losses).  The bears do not damage 
the cars, however.  The bears trade the cars for pick-a-nick 
baskets (Yogi pronunciation) to unscrupulous chipmunks who sell them 
to unsuspecting foreigners.  By the way, only black bears engage in 
this practice . . . thus the origin of the term "black market."

Next week:  the role of mosquitos in global warming.

Brooks

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