1:21:01
Here's where the sign was, here.
Which is where my tent is.
1:21:05
And then we go over where
my bear-proof barrels would be.
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And we find boulders piled up...
1:21:13
Boulders piled up
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and a happy face indelibly
painted into the rock,
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like looking at me.
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Very, very frickin' frightening, huh?
1:21:28
Whoever put it there,
1:21:32
knew what they were doing.
1:21:36
It's a warning.
1:21:37
And the thing is, it's better
than a warning, than...
1:21:42
It's better than like,
"You're fucking dead" type of thing.
1:21:45
It's creepy, baby!
It's creepy.
1:21:48
It's Freddy Krueger creepy.
1:21:52
There were visitors
every now and then.
1:21:54
But for Treadwell,
they were just intruders.
1:21:57
An encroaching threat upon what
he considered his Eden.
1:22:04
Even the Park Service itself
became an enemy
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because of its restrictions.
1:22:11
I have decided to violate
a federal rule
1:22:15
which states
I must camp one mile...
1:22:18
Every week I must move one mile after
staying for seven consecutive days.
1:22:22
If I was to do that,
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I would not be able to study these bears,
not be able to protect them.
1:22:27
I'd have to move out of the bay
to get a mile out.
1:22:31
Therefore I have decided to protest
the United States government
1:22:35
and guard these bears anyway
and stay, and I have...
1:22:38
In order to get around the rule of not
camping permanently in one spot,
1:22:43
he would camouflage and hide
his tent from the Park Service.
1:22:48
But more than that,
he was in constant violation
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of another very reasonable
park rule:
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That you have to maintain at least 100 yards
distance from the bears.
1:22:59
Ding.