This was a couple hundred yards from my house on Elm st. The DEC got this bear out of Herkimer acouple of weeks ago. It must be hard to know how much stuff to knock out the bear with. . This bear liked the easy pickings in the cities. You can't have a "wild" bear running around in a neighbor hood with grade school kids waiting for the schoolbus. Its to bad the bear died, I feel he would go back to the easy picking in another town if he was released.. The fall didn't look that bad , they caught him in a net so he didn't hit the ground.