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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 31 2020, @11:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-to-make-things-a-little-more-bearable dept.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/28/bored-kids-are-going-on-a-bear-hunt-and-its-adorable/:

Neighborhoods across the globe are putting stuffed bears in their windows and front lawns to give kids a safe game. As the book says, "We're not scared."

We're going on a bear hunt.

We're going to catch a big one.

What a beautiful day! We're not scared.

So begins the beloved award-winning children's picture book We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen[1] and illustrator Helen Oxenbury[2] that has inspired people across the world to put stuffed bears in their windows to create a "bear hunt" for families out on a walk or a drive through the neighborhood.

It's a great activity for little ones during scary times of social distancing because of the coronavirus.

Matthew Berry, 41, first saw the idea posted by Meghan Harrigan in the neighborhood Facebook page for Woodgate, a suburb not far from Countryside Mall in Clearwater. She had posted a Bear Hunt as an event on Friday afternoon and pretty soon the neighborhood exploded with bears in the windows, the trees, in the backs of cars and under fences, he said.

[...] And there's a new Facebook group that was started this week called Pinellas County's Wild Animal Safari that was formed to allow families to organize and publicize where to find "wild animal safaris" of all kinds of stuffed animals throughout the area. Inspired by the bear hunts, organizer Krystal French chose a wild animal safari, "because it will add a little variety to the search."

[1] Michael Rosen on Wikipedia
[2] Helen Oxenbury on Wikipedia.

Are any Soylentils going to give this a try in their area?

https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article241538566.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/briarwood-neighborhood-keeps-high-spirits-with-teddy-bear-hunt/ar-BB11QXjC


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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 01 2020, @02:31AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 01 2020, @02:31AM (#977898) Journal

    Exercise. Get out of the house, and let the wind blow the stench off of you. Hunt for bears along the way. And, watch out for those Australian bears dropping from above.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:19AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:19AM (#977946)

    Disagree all you want. But Microsoft is not malicious, and Edge was designed specifically to protect your privacy, not invade it. But the same cannot be said for Google Chrome. Chrome is very clearly the least private mainstream browser, since the product exists almost solely to track its users across the Internet and provide that infrastructure and the data it yields to advertisers, its primary source of income.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:28AM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:28AM (#977948) Journal
      And you don't need to back up your data, if you spread high quality pixie dust on the hard drive.
      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 01 2020, @03:54PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 01 2020, @03:54PM (#978072) Journal

        I don't need no backups.

        I use a RAID array.

        All of the zero bits on one drive, and the one bits on the other drive.

        If a drive fails, it is easily and quickfully replaced with a drive filled with the appropriate bit.

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        People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.