A bear story with a moral

Bear1This bridge is on the Old Donner Pass Highway, near  Truckee in north California.  It has a spectacular view of Donner Lake and Donner Pass on Route  80.

A bear was  walking across Rainbow Bridge, Old Hwy 40 at  Donner Summit, on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. 

Somehow the bear caught the ledge and pulled itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done  to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge.

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After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked  out of the net.

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There is a moral to this story, you  know.  This bear made a wrong move and found he was hanging by his nails.
Somehow he was able to pull himself up onto the ledge where he saw he was in a very bad, impossible situation and what did he do?

Yep, he took a nap and sure enough the situation took care of itself while he was asleep.

The moral is that when confronted with a bad situation sometimes  the best solution is . . . take a nap.

Thanks Bryant W

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