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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bears eat man at beer festival
2007-08-20

BELGRADE, Serbia (Rooters) -- A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival.

The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the body to their feeding corner and reacted angrily when keepers tried to recover it.

"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage," zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.

Local media reported that police found several mobile phones inside the cage, as well as bricks, stones and beer cans.
So it was a Legitimate Right To Resistance™ from the harassed bears, after all, or this guy's drunken pals were not very good at rescue missions...
Posted by:anonymous5089

#11  #9: The first and only verifiable time you can use the excuse that "..the Czech is in the male..."

Your membership can be revoked ukno!

--->Good Gawd that was awful!

~:)
Posted by: Red Dawg   2007-08-20 19:43  

#10  My easy guess is they were last ressort weapons thrown at the bears by the drunk Darwin award nominee, when the big furry critters started chewing on him. I wonder if the bricks and beer cans were thrown then, or before the attack to molest those Moderate bears?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-08-20 14:07  

#9  The first and only verifiable time you can use the excuse that "..the Czech is in the male..."
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-08-20 14:07  

#8  Local media reported that police found several mobile phones inside the cage...

Were they in the bears' scat?
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2007-08-20 14:04  

#7  Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets YOU!
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-08-20 12:10  

#6  ...with his clothes lying intact inside the cage TIP: If your drunken buddies dare you to go in the cage and screw a bear, don't count on them to come to your rescue if when things go wrong.
Posted by: GK   2007-08-20 11:28  

#5  #y Is that the same polar bear in the pen with a grizzly? I saw them 7 years ago on a vacation..
Posted by: Beavis   2007-08-20 10:56  

#4  Binky, the late polar bear at the Anchorage, AK zoo, was a crowd favorite, because not once, but twice, drunks got into his cage with the idea of fighting him.

Binky, remarkably personable for a polar bear, didn't attack and kill either. The first drunk suddenly realized where he was, sobered up and got out of there the way he came. But the second one actually walked up to Binky and punched him in the nose.

This was impolite, so Binky swatted him with his paw, knocking him backwards a good 25 feet. This likewise had a profoundly sobering effect on said drunk, who in his haste to depart, left behind a tennis shoe.

A picture of Binky gnawing on said tennis shoe soon became popular on local t-shirts, with the caption:

"Binky 2 - Drunks 0".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-08-20 10:45  

#3  Was this guy related to Goldilocks?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-08-20 10:43  

#2  Bear #1: "How do you like the new dinner they brought us?"

Bear #2: "A little too pickled for my taste."
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-08-20 10:16  

#1  "There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage," zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.












Posted by: Mike   2007-08-20 08:28  

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