[slackfan]

I love this article being quoted and requoted over the years, yet considering I live not one town over from there, it never fails to amuse at how much of that article is made up whole-cloth. To a rural NH native, this is basically somebody who has never actually lived in rural NH freaking out about rural NH.

- Bears are a problem everywhere, (town police doesn't deal with bears, Fish & Game does generally, and that's not the town's business. Having dealt with problem bears and Fish & Game - their response is usually "You got a gun?")

- somehow the Grafton dump is still operational, despite libertarians existing;

- ignore the appalachian trail that has long been a route for various forest squatting through-hikers that have been shitty about their trash, ignore the multiple camps of people living in the national forest around these parts due to various reasons (seasonal work, just squatting, getting away from life...)...

etc, etc.

It honestly was the first article in any news source that made me really question the journalistic profession. But we'll forever disregard the reality on the ground in favor of sensationalist bullshit.