Reporter Seems Kind Of Amused By Cop's Collision With Bear

A Tennessee police deputy struck a bear cub with his cruiser on Friday evening, resulting in one of the more baffling bits of local news I’ve seen in some time. There’s a jaunty, lighthearted tone to the whole story, which, lest you forget is about an animal being hit by a car, shows the moment of impact at least three times, like some kind of terrible bear snuff film. The cub quickly fled the scene, or, in the words of our correspondent, went “back in the woods from whence he came, leaving nary a trail to follow.”