{"id":3460,"date":"2024-02-05T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/florida-lawmaker-says-bill-to-loosen-rules-on-killing-bears-is-aimed-at-the-ones-that-are-on-crack\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:04:12","slug":"florida-lawmaker-says-bill-to-loosen-rules-on-killing-bears-is-aimed-at-the-ones-that-are-on-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/florida-lawmaker-says-bill-to-loosen-rules-on-killing-bears-is-aimed-at-the-ones-that-are-on-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawmaker says bill to loosen rules on killing bears is aimed at \u2018the ones that are on crack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No evidence backs up Jason Shoaf\u2019s claims bears on crack are breaking into homes and opponents say bill will allow people to kill bears without threat<\/p>\n<p>A Florida lawmaker seeking looser regulations on the killing of wildlife has claimed that black bears high on crack are breaking into people\u2019s homes and \u201ctearing them apart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation from Republican state congressman Jason Shoaf, whose biography reveals a passion for hunting, is bizarre even by the already unorthodox standards of Florida, which in recent times has boasted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jul\/22\/cocaine-sharks-drugs-florida-coast\">cocaine sharks<\/a> and marauding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/dec\/30\/florida-monkeys-herpes-macaques\">herpes-ridden monkeys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/05\/florida-bears-crack-jason-shoaf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No evidence backs up Jason Shoaf\u2019s claims bears on crack are breaking into homes and opponents say bill will allow people to kill bears without threat A Florida lawmaker seeking looser regulations on the killing of wildlife has claimed that black bears high on crack are breaking into people\u2019s homes and \u201ctearing them apart\u201d. The &#8230; <a title=\"Florida lawmaker says bill to loosen rules on killing bears is aimed at \u2018the ones that are on crack\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/florida-lawmaker-says-bill-to-loosen-rules-on-killing-bears-is-aimed-at-the-ones-that-are-on-crack\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida lawmaker says bill to loosen rules on killing bears is aimed at \u2018the ones that are on crack\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}