HOW ABOUT A HUNGRY BEAR?

When I first saw the above sign at a rest stop along Blue Ridge Parkway, I thought it reads a "federal" bear is a dead bear (so to be a live bear, it has to be a "state" bear)!  Usually the sign would read, "Danger - Don't Feed the Bears!" warning people not to make any contact with the wild animal.  Somehow each year there would be one person who managed to get killed while visiting a national park and thought the bear was cute and irresistible.  

We did not see any bears and did not try looking for any bearpen either.  Besides, we already got Mitchell and he is definitely cute and very harmless!