Police Disperse Group of Hunters Hunting Too Close To Homes

A group of about fifteen hunters were dispersed by Lakewood Police this morning after hunting too close to residential homes, area residents tell TLS.

The residents say at about 8 AM the group of approximately 15 hunters converged in the woods off of the Brook Sports Complex – which backs up to homes off of East County Line Road. Area residents say they were frightened to see a group of men with loaded rifles in the woods behind their homes. Not knowing who they were and what they were doing, the residents phone police.

Multiple officers responded and sent away the group, saying they were too close

It’s unknown if they were hunting just for deer, but today is the first day of 6-day bear hunt held concurrently with the state’s six-day firearm deer hunting season. Saturday, December 8, is the last day of the hunt.

DEP officials say they are working to stabilize and reduce the state’s black bear population, to eventually be maintained at a density that minimizes human/bear conflicts, provides for a sustainable population within suitable bear habitat, and minimizes movement of bears to unsuitable habitat in suburban and urban areas. TLS.

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29 COMMENTS

  1. If the bear population gets out of hand, and we begin to have bears roaming the streets of Lakewood, we will all be blaming the police, right?

    But the police won’t do a thing, because they can’t. Bears have more rights than humans in liberal states like New Jersey and New York. So if a pack of big black bears comes down your street while your kids are playing in your front yard…… there is nothing you will be able to do. You can sit there with a rifle and be prepared…… but wait! — You don’t have a rifle because you are against guns.

    So it makes the most sense to allow the hunters to hunt those bears now before their population grows so much that they will be roaming the streets of Lakewood.

    But don’t bother explaining this to a liberal. He just cares much more about those poor bears, than he cares about your kids in your front yard. He won’t understand what you’re talking about. Remember, he’s a liberal.

  2. Its not overpopulated with deer or bears… its these trigger happy (mdoerated) that got nothing better to do with there time then go out and shoot poor defenseless Animals!!!

  3. You got more reason to be scared of hunters killing your family members .. Ten you do the Animals they want to shoot so bad they dont care where the bullets fly high powered weapons cant miss!!!

  4. I think they were really hunting street lights and telephone poles – those nasty critters always seem to jump out at vehicles when you least expect them. And until the pole problem goes away there should be a law permitting the removal of up to 3,500 poles a years.

  5. liberals cant think far enough into any topic…… they always think with their heart, instead of their brains. i agree, that some topics require you to use your heart – but what liberals dont understand is some topics require you to use ONLY your brain.

    if we allow bears to simply grow in population:
    1. will it be humane for them to end up starving due to not enough food?
    2. will it be humane for them to end up hit by a car?
    3. will it be humane for them to end up attacking one another to death for whatever little land is left to be claimed “their own” territory?

    its easy for simple minded fools to say “save the bears”. but what are we to do with them? they will fight for territory, starve, get hit by cars, attack children playing, etc. USE YOUR HEADS FOR ONCE, INSTEAD OF YOUR BLEEDING-HEARTS!

  6. How in the world could someone bring hunting into a liberal vs conservative argument? Hunters come in all shapes, sizes and ideologies. Conservatives tend to be more pro gun than liberals. Hunting is a sport enjoyed by Americans for centuries. Right now it’s deer season. Deer are overpopulated in our state and will starve to death or be killed by vehicles if the herd is not thinned. Hunters use the meat for food. It’s legal. Hunters should not hunt too close to residences. The police solved the problem. End of discussion.

  7. Those hunters were not using rifles , they are shotguns. Due to the recent development in lakewood in the past few years which has been taking away the wildlife habitat ,this is a necessary method of deer population control to minimize deer car collision,deer starvation ,because of all the building. The next time you dont hit a deer with your car or your family is not injured you should thank a hunter. All hunters must take a state certfied gun safety course and pass a test in order to get a license to hunt. it is not even legal in New Jersey to hunt with a high powered rifle so maybe in addition to learning all the state laws regarding hunting, and taking a gun safety course certified by the state and being required to pass a test pertaining to all this information, like the hunters do in order to even be allowed to get their licenses, these people should also learn the difference between a shotgun and a rifle REMEMBER WHO BROUGHT THIS DEVELOPING OF THE FOREST TO LAKEWOOD

  8. Most of you spend too much time watching tv or if you can, reading news papers but Don’t pay attention or too ignorant to learn the facts. Hunting on this planet goes back before time was recorded. It fed our ancestors and some of your incestors. Deer hunting is done only with a shotgun which can only hold a maximum of three shells. No not sea shells. They can only hunt within 450 feet of a building with written permission. Black bears are not legally hunted in central Jersey. You probably take better care of your pet then you do your children.

  9. omg is there still some forest left! chop it down please then we wont have any problems with deer, hunters, and those nasty trees which knock down out power and communication cables! take out the trees please! call the township committee

  10. I’ve been trying to contact Mr. Conservative for years. If you know who he is, please notify me through TLS, I would like very much to meet him.

    To think that he is really me would require that I see a psychologist, which I cannot afford right now due to the new taxes from ObamaCare.

  11. Are there any trees left in Lakewood??? The bigest thret to wildlife is the loss of habitat (take note : Lakewood) OH I forgot the few have decided to make this a CITY , funny everyone moved here to get away from the “CITY”

  12. everyone acts like hunters are just running around the woods shooting at anything that moves . these are trained hunters and shooters. they are far from reckless and dangerous ! i am willing to bet these hunters are more in danger of someone hitting them with a car as they cross a street as you are of them shooting a innocent person !!

  13. So Yid, you are saying that if we do not cull the enormous black bear population of 2,900 in the entire state, they will overrun Lakewood? My opinion has nothing to do with being a liberal or conservative- I thought it had to do with common sense. 2,900 bears in the entire state of New Jersey is by no means a large number that needs a hunt to bring down. Deer, yes. I fully support a deer hunt every year as the population has exploded. But bears, really?

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