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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida lawmaker says bill to loosen rules on killing bears is aimed at ‘the ones that are on crack’

a black bear sits in a tree
A presumably sober black bear in a tree in Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida, on 4 June 2023. Photograph: Roger Simmons/Orlando Sentinel via Getty Images

A Florida lawmaker seeking looser regulations on the killing of wildlife has claimed that black bears high on crack are breaking into people’s homes and “tearing them apart”.

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 cocaine sharks and marauding herpes-ridden monkeys.

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