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As I recall, it was very clear from the context that the guys who left the rocks knew who they were leaving them for. I fail to see how this wasn't creepy.

Also, I think you are giving the hunters way too much benefit of the doubt. I've heard of staying out of the way of bear cubs, but attacking them? This seems like being on the far side of probable responses from people who give a darn. I didn't get a good vibe from those guys at all. If there is any guessing as to their motivations to be done, I think you're doing at least as much as anyone could. Which leaves less than firm ground to criticize on anyone else's extrapolations, including Treadwell's.

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Just rewatched the relevant footage. Yes the message leavers knew who Treadwell was. The 3 things he showed that they left were:

A message on a broken tree branch that appeared to read, "Hi Timothy. see you summer 2002" He reads it aloud twice as 'see you in summer of 2001" and calls it "a warning of a sorts" "obviously here to upset me" "some sort of a warning"

Some rocks stacked up that he calls, "a bit of trouble"

Then closer to his camp he finds some more rocks stacked and one has the happy face drawn on it. He calls this "very frightening" "a warning" "better than 'you're dead'" "Freddy Kruger creepy"

I think all 3 of these "warnings" could easily have been left by innocent "fans". That Treadwell interpretted them all as death threats says a lot about his state of mind.

The "hunters" that "attacked" the bear were armed with, in Treadwell's own words, "pepper spray and rocks". There are 6 of them and they appeared to have arrived in 2 boats. One guy is fishing and 2 of them are taking photographs. The bear is coming towards them. Two guys wave their arms in an apparent attempt to frighten it away. The bear is not afraid of them though, probably because it has gotten used to Treadwell's unthreating presence. So one guy throws some rocks at the bear to scare it back. He does not wind up and pitch them like a baseball in an attempt to hurt the bear. He just lightly throws them towards the bear.

Meanwhile Treadwell, who tells us over and over again in the video how he is there to protect the bears, does absolutely nothing. He almost comes to tears and says, "I don't want to expose myself to them"