The Editor,
Darwin award potential winners are alive and well in Coquitlam.
Evidence: Driver cuts me off on left turn and then sees a bear.
Driver comes to full stop on Thermal Drive. It's a one-lane street either direction.
Driver comes to full stop to watch bear. Bear is not causing traffic problem. Bear is not on road and just bounding off toward ravine.
I stop behind driver who just cut me off, flash high beams. He does nothing. Can see him and passenger watching bear run off into ravine far from road.
As I pull out into oncoming lane and pass driver ahead, see two female teenagers using iPhones to videotape bear running away. They are steps away. I am dumbfounded.
Amazing, bear is no threat but to the driver of the car wanting to gawk at bear - not grounds to clog up a single lane road.
And girls, you could have been dinner, tracked only by the iPhone GPS firing off later inside the bear's guts.
Yes, Darwin award potential winners are still alive and well in Coquitlam.
Peter Bennett, Coquitlam
