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"The North Adams Police Department is urging everyone to not
chase bears through the woods with a dull hatchet, drunk. Yes
that really did happen tonight," police in the city of 13,500
people in a mountainous area near the Massachusetts-Vermont
border requested on Facebook late on Monday.
The post, which was confirmed as authentic by a police
dispatcher on Tuesday, came after officers responded to a call
reporting a disturbance and found an inebriated man who had set
out to drive bears away from his property, the dispatcher said.
The man was taken into protective custody due to his
intoxication and later released without charges, the dispatcher
said.
"We understand there are bears in the area," the police
department urged. "If you see a bear, leave it alone."
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Lisa Lambert)
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