Cuddlefail Earns Stoner Workers Comp

A stoned volunteer at the Great Bears Adventure Park in Montana, feeding the bears just before closing when a bear mauled his ass is now earning workers compensation.

From KRTV here:

A state judge has extended workers compensation to Brock Hopkins, who was mauled while feeding the bears at the Great Bear Adventures Park in West Glacier three years ago. The judge said Hopkins’ decision to use marijuana before feeding grizzly bears was “ill advised”.

The issue centered over the question of whether Hopkins was an actual employee and also in question was Hopkins smoking of marijuana – not for medicinal purposes – before he tried to feed the bears.

Judge James Jeremiah Shea, however, ruled that Hopkins was an employee who had been compensated and was “within the scope of his employment” while working at the park.

While the judge said it was “mind-bogglingly stupid” for Hopkins to have smoked pot and then entered the bear pen, he didn’t find his impairment was a “major factor” in his mauling.

If bears eat stoners, they get the munch and then they just can’t stop eating squirrels. Its a growing problem in the northwest.