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| Eco-Follies: Iceland cops shoot polar bear that tries to eat journalists |
| 2008-06-18 |
| Police in Iceland were forced to shoot a polar bear that had apparently travelled several hundred kilometres from Greenland atop an ice floe when the animal charged a group of journalists. A 12-year-old girl on a farm near the town of Saudarkrokur, on the Skaga fjord, spotted the bear and alerted the authorities. The bear was the second known to have made the trip across the north Atlantic in just two weeks, broadcaster RUV reported. They were the first such incidents in 20 years in Iceland, which lies just below the Arctic Circle and where polar bears are not native. In the earlier case, authorities permitted police marksmen to kill the polar bear, sparking protests from environmentalists and animal rights' groups. After the protests, authorities had vowed to capture the second bear and have it shipped in a cage back to Greenland or give it to a zoo. But after the bear charged a group of reporters "in a panic," a police spokesman said they had "no other choice" but to kill it. It's not clear from that last sentence if the bear was in a panic ("Rrrraawwrrrr!") or the reporters were panicking ("It's gonna eat me! Screw conservation; SHOOT IT!") |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #17 Prolly seeking passage to Wall Street. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-06-18 14:57 |
| #16 That's the problem with living out here on the Left Coast; by the time lunch rolls around so I can get to the Burg, all the good snark is taken..... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-06-18 14:57 |
| #15 But after the bear charged a group of reporters 'in a panic,' a police spokesman said they had 'no other choice' but to kill it. Usually, when I'm in a panic, I run the other way. Maybe the bear was panicked about the possibility of lunch getting away. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2008-06-18 13:30 |
| #14 Are they sure it wasn't Man-Bear-Pig? |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2008-06-18 13:20 |
| #13 Know your bears! if you see a bear, climb a tree and... the bear climbs up after you, it's a black bear the bear shakes the tree until you fall out, it's a grizzly bear the bear ignores you in favor of nearby bamboo, it's a panda bear the bear climbs up with you, says "G'day mate", and offers you a fistful of eucalyptus leaves, it's a koala bear the nearest tree is 100 miles to the south, it's a polar bear |
| Posted by: Querent 2008-06-18 13:13 |
| #12 I hates the man Who sez all bears sh*t in the woods Cause I don't Cause I'm a polar bear raaahhh! I don't put my rump down on no stump..... from Jim Pepper's "Polar Bear Stomp" |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-06-18 11:09 |
| #11 In the earlier case, authorities permitted police marksmen to kill the polar bear, sparking protests from environmentalists and animal rights' groups. I think a good compromise would be to shoot the environmentalists and animal rights activists and feed them to the polar bears. Works out for everybody... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-18 10:57 |
| #10 John Frum: That was my first thought too. I was shocked they didn't let them at least get bitten first. |
| Posted by: Charles 2008-06-18 10:56 |
| #9 I'd like to purchase two and send them to the NYT with "love" |
| Posted by: James Carville 2008-06-18 10:54 |
| #8 We find a journo-eating polar bear and somebody shoots it? Appalling. We should be trying to breed these adorable creatures. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-18 09:47 |
| #7 polar bear that tries to eat journalists. And the problem is? After eating the drug, alcohol, bus_derangement_sydrom, BS and chomkism laden flesh of a journalist the bear would have become crazy and gone in a murderous rampage. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-06-18 09:44 |
| #6 Quagmire! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-06-18 09:31 |
| #5 Writing bad journalism aggroes every bears. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-18 09:27 |
| #4 Since when are journalist listed on the endangered list* and deserve protection? * Yeah, I know we're trying our best on the internet, but we still have a long way to go till they are reduced to special enclaves like Media and Journalism Departments at universities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-06-18 09:01 |
| #3 polar bear that tries to eat journalists And the problem is? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-06-18 08:19 |
| #2 They had a choice between a polar bear and a group of journalists and choose the journalists? |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-06-18 07:00 |
| #1 Is Ned from South-Park (He's coming right for us!) now a Journalist? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-06-18 06:37 |