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Bear Hit and Run · Scott & Ally on Demand

• 0:00
  Well, I got some great news.
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  What is that?
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  Well, today's garbage day and I didn't have a bear attack the garbage.
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  They're everywhere now.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Yes.
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  I think I so I took I went over the hill today, took Coleman up and over.
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  Oh, I got a funny bear story to tell you, too.
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  So many bear things.
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  So uh the theme.
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  Right?
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  Well, tis the season.
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  So I looked over at one point because you know you're driving up and it gets kind of fieldy in spots.
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  Swear to God, there was one in somebody's backyard I saw.
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  Oh gosh, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  They're just hanging, hanging out.
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  They're on the front porch sipping coffee this morning.
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  Somebody was telling me a story.
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  Can't remember who the heck told me this story.
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  This happened, I think, within within the past week, this happened.
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  Okay.
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  That West Elmira Police Department got called out.
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  Okay.
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  Somebody hit a bear, took off, but their bumper was left behind.
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  And I'm thinking about- Wait, wait, with their driver's license?
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  Well, that's what I thought.
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  I'm like, of all the things to leave, I mean, okay, I understand you don't want to jump out of the car if there's a bear there, because you don't know.
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  I mean, you kind of ticked off the bear, probably, right?
• 0:58
  Exactly.
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  Um, but yeah, they took off.
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  They didn't wait uh for the cops.
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  Well, but I'm like, there's you have a license plate on usually on your bumper.
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  But I don't think this is such a good question.
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  I don't think I would wait either, though.
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  Because I don't want to-of an offense to that, though.
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  Okay, but um, my life?
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  Okay, I'll give you that.
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  Okay, you can have your life.
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  So then maybe I should just go over like a couple streets over and then call the police.
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  But it's a crowd.
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  Or do you just sit in your car?
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  Well, the bear doesn't have opposable thumbs to open your car together.
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  No, but we've seen- Although the way they get into garbage cans, I don't know about that.
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  And we've seen stories where like bears will be like racking a car.
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  They try to get in.
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  No way, no way, I'm not sure.
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  So you're taking off.
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  I'm taking off.
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  Yeah.
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  And okay, yeah, I'll call the police when I get home.
• 1:44
  Okay, maybe that's the way.
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  Maybe I won't.
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  But anyway, maybe I won't.
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  Well, I'm gonna have to because my my bumper fell off.
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  But still, I'm gonna call the police and say I did not feel safe, so I wasn't staying there.
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  They can't, they cannot do it.
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  It cannot be a hit and run.
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  I don't know if there's an offense to hitting a bear.
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  Like, I mean, they're certainly not endangered because they're everywhere.
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  Well, and now I I know that we can hunt bear certain times of the year.
• 2:08
  Sure.
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  It's not like I was trying to.
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  No, you weren't aiming for it.
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  Okay, what's the charge for hitting a bear?
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  This is a great question.
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  I don't know, but that's the story that is hanging around.
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  Now that's the story I heard, mind you.
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  You know, you you always wonder, but I mean, that I I laughed when I heard it because I'm thinking to myself, what your your bumper, unless you're in Pennsylvania, where I no, I think Pennsylvania, aren't you supposed to have a front plate too?
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  Um I don't know.
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  Who cares?
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  I don't know.
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  But hold on a second.
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  I don't think there's a charge.
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  Oh, really?
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  There is no penalty or criminal charge for accidentally hitting a bear with your car in New York.
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  Okay, what about a bear hit and run?
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  Okay.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like it I'm with you.
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  I I'm certainly not getting out and checking on the bear.
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  Right.
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  Okay, so here's a couple things.
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  It says hitting a wild animal is viewed legally as a quote act of nature.
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  Oh, yeah, and you will not be deemed at fault by law enforcement for the accident itself.
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  Now, if the bear is killed or seriously injured, this is where it comes to reporting it.
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  Or if your vehicle sustained significant damage, you should report the collision to an environmental conservation officer, the state police, or local law.
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  Now, under New York Environmental Conservation Law, 11-0915.
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  Thank you.
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  A New York motorist can legally keep the bear carcass.
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  Okay, don't need that.
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  What am I gonna do with that?
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  Make a rug?
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  No, it says to do this, you must have an officer inspect the scene and issue a free possession tag within 24 hours of the crash.
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  Oh.
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  Oh man.
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  Well, there really is no crime here.
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  Okay, I I didn't know.
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  Me neither.
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  So the whole thing, but when you said like, oh, it's a hit and run, it feels crimey, right?
• 3:45
  Oh, well, sure, especially when you're like, wow, I left my bumper.
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  Right, right, right.
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  And no.
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  Um, do you want to know about the insurance coverage?
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  Yeah, actually, I are they gonna deny me?
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  Well, no.
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  Damage to your vehicle caused by hitting a bear is covered under your auto insurance policy's comprehensive coverage minus your deductible.
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  Well, of course, yeah.
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  If you swerved to avoid the bear and hit an object like, I don't know, a guardrail or a tree, the claim must be filed under collision coverage, which could impact your insurance rates differently.
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  This is really interesting, actually.
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  It got me captivated because I had no idea.
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  I thought there was some like, you know, DEA crime or something.
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  Me too.
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  Crime of passion.
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  Just kidding.
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  Okay, not really.
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  Don't passionately love the bears.
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  No, but I'm saying, like, passionately hate the bears.
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  Yeah.
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  I wasn't saying passionately love, I was saying passionately hate.
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  Well, you know, when you hear passionate, you're like, Well, there's the bearskin rug again.
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  Anyway, that's that.
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  That is so cool.
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  I mean, kind of.
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  Now, what's I now I need to know.
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  You need to remember who told you the story.
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  I cannot remember.
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  I'm sure it was on the soccer field.
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  Oh, probably.
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  And I want to know if they kept it for meat or if they kept it for a bearskin rug.
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  Um with the amount of ticks that are going on right now.
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  Yeah, that's gonna be gross.
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  Right, because are you gonna fumigate the thing?
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  Even yesterday, um Oh no.
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  Oh, I just can't stop myself.
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  I just can't stop myself.
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  No, what'd you do?
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  So remember how I stole my neighbor's wheelbarrow who's dead?
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  Yes.
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  And there he has no family to unfortunately like claim him.
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  Right.
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  Or they haven't.
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  So he has a couple rocks in his front yard and I kind of want them.
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  And so Zach's like, no, because this is uh this man never tells me no.
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  He's like, well, he doesn't even say no.
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  He goes, honey.
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  Absolutely not.
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  Absolutely not.
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  Yes, and I'm like, and why is that?
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  And he's like, because there's probably ticks all over them because the grass, the guy's dead, so the grass is like up to our waist.
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  And I was thinking more that people might realize, wait, those rocks look familiar and now they've moved four stri four houses out.
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  Who cares?
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  Who cares about a dead man's rocks?
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  Oh my god.
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  I mean, it really is that much of a crime.
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  I stole some rocks.
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  What are the Corning Police?
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  Please call me and tell me.
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  What is uh rocks?
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  Well, there's no charge for hitting a bear.
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  So what could rocks be?
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  You know?