Massachusetts police forced to remind residents not to drunkenly chase bears

Some advice seems obvious, but just in case, here's a pro tip from the North Adams Police Department: Next time you get drunk, don't pick up a dull hatchet, and definitely don't chase after a bear through the woods while still carrying said dull hatchet.

"Yes, that really did happen tonight," the Massachusetts police department wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

The drunken offender was taken into custody after "going all Davy Crockett," as the post put it, and North Adams police are "still trying to figure out what his end game was."

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