A BEAR cub was shot in the head and dumped, draped in Barack Obama campaign posters, on the grounds of a US university.
Police at Western Carolina University said maintenance workers found the carcass of the 34kg bakc bear cub yesterday morning, the Asheville Citizen-Times website reported.
“It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” said university police chief Tom Johnson.
“Someone evidently was wanting to draw attention to the election. If we find out who they are, we'll make sure they'll get some attention themselves,” Mr Johnson told the paper.
The university called the incident deplorable and troubling.
“We cannot speculate on the motives of the people involved nor who those people might be, said associate vice-chancellor Leila Tvedt.
Paul Cox, a spokesman for the Obama campaign in North Carolina, would not comment.
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