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2007-08-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-20 08:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 08:28|| Front Page Top

#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">DarthVader 2007-08-20 10:16|| 2007-08-20 10:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Was this guy related to Goldilocks?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-20 10:43|| 2007-08-20 10:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 10:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 10:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 11:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets YOU!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-20 12:10|| 2007-08-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 14:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 14:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-20 14:07|| Front Page Top

#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">Red Dawg 2007-08-20 19:43|| 2007-08-20 19:43|| Front Page Top

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