'Bear Haven' owner Charlie Vandergaw at sentencing

Charlie Vandergaw was fined $20,000 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, all suspended, for feeding bears on his property in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

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[Rodrigo Magalhães]

law is just ridiculous.you can kill bears but cannot feed them.they are so stupid beacuse they are made by stupid people.its just retarded that the innocent pay for living his life normally,being happy.government is a big failure because its not democratic.people dont want to participate and government dont want people participating

[william dixpn]

What this guy could do with his bears is totaly amazing. It's sad that the judge threw the book at him. Those bears miss him. So sad.

[radanthem043090]

the first bear that came in me. lol

[Rodrigo Magalhães]

unlikely.first that bears are mostly vegetarian.the meat that they eat is salmon and SMALL mammals so they can have some source of fat to survive the hibernation.they only attack humans if they feel threatened and that is not the case between charlie and his bears.and third, this man loves so much the bears that i doubt he would let them starve and i doubt that the bears would attack him if they were starving.we've pet wolves and turned them into dogs.this man just did the same with the bears

[mosescelica17]

A bear can kill anyone it pleases, feeding bears tells bears that we are a food source. What is a hungry bear going to do when you don't have any food to give it you ask? Eat you.

[rfiji fijian]

Well it seems that the only reason they could punish a man who made us discover something phenomenal between an animal once considered as ferocious and a man, is that they want to give priviledge to evil! Like hunters enjoying killing these animals making them suffer and destroying natural habitats! What the governement has done is criminal! It is dangerous to feed bears and build peace between man and bear but it is safe to hunt them and destroy their forests! How ridiculous!

[Mark Lazenby]

Government (i.e. the beast, i.e. Satan) hates nature and those who embrace and are accepted by it. So long as we, as a species, are STUPID enough to believe we should appoint others to rule us, true human beings, like this man, will always be oppressed so as not to stand out as an example of our true spiritual potential. I would trade the ‘life’ of every government official and government supporter to grant this true soul one moment of peace with his bear friends.

[in2weeed]

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[in2weeed]

Mr Vandergaw peopel cant handle looking at things differently cause they have to see things differently good on ya tho most men dont even venture as far to even live a dream for 25 yrs facist state laws

[ssrider7]

Ahhh shut up!

[ssrider7]

he lived among bears 20 yerars,hes retired school teacher.

here was just pure love,he love those bears.

[armando how]

What a sad and bad ending for a human that shared his love to God given creatures. Charlie is like an angel to me for the bears to know that humans are not that bad to them.

Where is justice here? Laws should be revised and improved when changes happen. A change of perspective to the law creating body should be initialized to adopt certain peculiarities of events.