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2008-06-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Eco-Follies: Iceland cops shoot polar bear that tries to eat journalists

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-18 06:18|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Is Ned from South-Park (He's coming right for us!) now a Journalist?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-18 06:37|| 2008-06-18 06:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 polar bear that tries to eat journalists
And the problem is?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-06-18 08:19|| 2008-06-18 08:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Writing bad journalism aggroes every bears.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-18 09:27|| 2008-06-18 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-06-18 09:31|| 2008-06-18 09:31|| Front Page Top

#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">JFM 2008-06-18 09:44|| 2008-06-18 09:44|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd like to purchase two and send them to the NYT with "love"

Posted by James Carville 2008-06-18 10:54|| 2008-06-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 10:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 10:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Are they sure it wasn't Man-Bear-Pig?

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-06-18 13:20|| 2008-06-18 13:20|| Front Page Top

#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">Zhang Fei 2008-06-18 13:30|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-06-18 13:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-18 14:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Prolly seeking passage to Wall Street.

Posted by wxjames 2008-06-18 14:57|| 2008-06-18 14:57|| Front Page Top

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