Bears!
People keep telling me that it is futile to prep in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey, but I keep on doing it anyhow. You might wonder why since New Jersey is a socialist mecca. The answer is pretty simple. I live here and have both family and career reasons for staying. While there are things I don’t care for, they don’t compare to being where my family and work opportunities happen to be.
Living in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey has a lot of similarity to living in Russia. I spent a year in Russia, so I can make that comparison first hand. In Russia everything is government controlled, but nothing works well, and it certainly isn’t being done as a service for you.
The Peoples Republic of New Jersey is much like that. New Jersey is the only state that will not allow you to pump your own gas. There are people here who like having the service of having their gas pumped and their solution is make it illegal to pump your own gas, like everyone else in the country does. We don’t even need to get into the topic of gun control to see that you can’t do much of anything in New Jersey without a government permit, and you don’t have a permit to pump your own gas.
How is your experience with the Division of Motor Vehicles? Let me assure you it is worse in New Jersey. ☹
New Jersey Bears Playing Golf
On top of being a socialist mecca the Peoples Republic of New Jersey is the most urban state in the country, which is a big no-no for most preppers. Despite that, I have concluded that prepping in such an environment is entirely possible, due to the presence of Black Bears. Black Bears have been sighted in every county in New Jersey. Last year’s bear hunt yielded a record number of bears harvested. If 400 years of being hunted haven’t wiped out the Black Bears, I can surely learn a few things from them and survive as well. Of course, everyone has heard of “the Russian Bear”, so bears are a symbol of the communist state, which is very much what we have here in New Jersey. You’d think New Jersey was somewhere in the Urals.
While everyone knows that bears are associated with Russia, but not everyone knows that here in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey, we have the Newark Bears baseball team.
One of the other prepper myths is that all the wild game will be gone in no time, due to hunting after SHTF. Really? We haven’t slowed down the bear population growth. New Jersey has an 11% gun ownership rate. 89% of households don’t own guns. Of the 11% that do, many are handgun owners only. How many deer will be taken by a .38 special? Did I forget to mention we have an over-population of deer too? I have counted as many as 21 deer in my suburban yard at one time. Maybe the .38 special is adequate? 😊
I like shrubbery! 😊
Then there are raccoons, squirrels, and other nuisance animals. Raccoons love trash cans. Squirrels, on the other hand, love bird feeders. My wife decided to do some gardening this spring and all of sudden we have rabbits. Given the rocks, the garden isn’t very large. There isn’t going to be an immediate problem with hunters wiping out the game. That is unless my neighbors figure out that the local game is so used to people, you could take out a deer with a baseball bat.
That wouldn’t work with raccoons though. I’ve managed to nail raccoons with things like ball-peen hammers, and even went after them with some cherry bombs at one point. (Fortunately, the statute of limitations has run out on that one.) 😊 These efforts chased them off until the next evening. Once, I came home after dark to find a raccoon, standing on its hind legs, holding my garage door open with his front paws. Other raccoons were then running in and out of my garage, thanks to the physical prowess of the raccoon holding the door. You don’t need to worry about finding raccoons. They’ll find you!
Raccoons are hard to kill, except for this one. 😊
Okay, so once per post I go over the line on politics. Stuff happens. 😊
Estimates are there will be a 90% mortality rate (among humans, not raccoons) during the first year after an EMP. In New Jersey we can identify 89% of those folks right now. They are unarmed, so they won’t be bothering me, or the bears. A bunch of them work at DMV, so they won’t be missed either.
Bears enjoying a PRNJ swimming pool!
The next time you are on some prepper forum and ready to tell someone to get out of his urban or suburban environment, think of this. As a Peoples Republic of New Jersey prepper, you have access to game you might not see in the countryside. There are few other gun owners competing for that game. Socialist governments will insure that the gun ownership rate remains low, and the wildlife remains plentiful. If this is such a hard place to survive, how come all this wildlife is here?
BTW: If you’re thinking all the untrained “Jersey Boys” will prevent all this wildlife from appearing in my vicinity.
I think I’ll do fine here, and so will the bears, but I’m not so sure about my non-prepper neighbors.
You crack me up, PP. Funny stuff.
We have a TON of black bears in Utah, they are all over the palace.
I think here they just like the views of the New York City skyline. 🙂