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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Makes me angry these people was in the bear's territory polar bear watching. And they making out that the polar bear is a monster. I hope they don't kill him. Polar bears very beautiful but they are dangerous. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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if the kid was on an arctic expedition at 17, i am guessing he didn't attend an inner city comprehensive !
sad just the same, both for him and the bear
they don't attack humans with regularity, but as this case shows, once is enough ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I feel for the family of the young lad killed and those maimed. However, I wouldn't fancy my chances setting up a camp in the middle of the Serengeti, so can't understand why anyone would wish to go into the wild and be surprised if a wild animal attacks! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it. |
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it."
Can you imagine that in the playground?
"Please miss, tommy jenkins ( 8 ) has just attacked me and i'm only 7" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Unfortunate incident but would we not all be baying for blood if it was a shark attack?"
Nope. shouldnt be in the sea ...thats their domain 
so billy connolly says |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunate incident but would we not all be baying for blood if it was a shark attack?
Nope. shouldnt be in the sea ...thats their domain
so billy connolly says "
But when on my hols, I use the sea, to take a pee |
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"Unfortunate incident but would we not all be baying for blood if it was a shark attack?
Nope. shouldnt be in the sea ...thats their domain
so billy connolly says "
kin 'ell, the sharks have their own websites now? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trivia, did you know that polar bears furry hairs are really tubes?
and there fur is not white but translucent (I need to get out more!)
translucent or opaque?
i'll see you by the bus stop?"
Translucent me thinks, maybe the snowy environment plays a part? I'll ask David Attenborough next time he's in the off licence |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it."
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it."
I'm not sure if they had to shoot it to stop the attack when it was unfolding but I disagree with you about having to shoot the bear.
The reason I disagree is that from what I've read sources like the BBC say that polar bears are one of the few species that will actively hunt humans.
Does that mean we have to shoot all of them. They are all a threat.
As I say it's a terrible tragedy what happened to the young man, and if it was shot to stop the attack as it was happening I could see that but these animals are dangerous and there is an argument to say we shouldnt enter their domain. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!"
When you say 'man' who's this 'we'? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I think us humans think we can do what we like, when we like and anywhere we like without taking into account there are WILD animals...and if said wild animal acts accordingly, shoot it.
WRONG, SO WRONG  |
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!
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And another +1 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Where's nottsmale when we need him.
Who would win a fight between a polar bear and a fox? Answers on a glacier mint please.
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Can ya suck it....yes ya can |
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!
+ 1
And another +1 "
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Lucky me, a threesum with Peaches and a DirtyGirl
yum yum
PS i'll post again, if i survive |
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!
+ 1
And another +1
+1
Lucky me, a threesum with Peaches and a DirtyGirl
yum yum
PS i'll post again, if i survive"
Well we were agreeing with Sass so we'll let her start shall we?!
*gets popcorn* |
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"To be hopes the bear shot isnt the one that some poor sod has been adopting for the past few years. What a waste of money that would be."
Why tell 'em. One bear looks pretty much like another. Unless it has bright red translucent fur of course. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'd shoot the parents for being irresponsible enough to put a five year old in harms way!
There's a big difference going to pick up my frozen goods in the Iceland shop on East Dulwich Road and being mauled by a rogue polar bear whist shopping for my baked Alaska, to taking myself off to some frozen tundra, setting up my two man tent in the middle of Polar Bear Drive then be surprised if the neighbours come calling!
Man may be at the top of the food chain but we don't have the biggest teeth!
+ 1
And another +1
+1
Lucky me, a threesum with Peaches and a DirtyGirl
yum yum
PS i'll post again, if i survive
Well we were agreeing with Sass so we'll let her start shall we?!
*gets popcorn* "
Hmmmm I'm open to new things so I'll eat the popcorn and watch! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The authorities can't afford to take any chances once an animal has tasted human flesh and knows it as a food source. How would we all be feeling if it went on to attack another person - an 8y/o girl for example, or a 5y/o boy?
They had to shoot it.
I'm not sure if they had to shoot it to stop the attack when it was unfolding but I disagree with you about having to shoot the bear.
The reason I disagree is that from what I've read sources like the BBC say that polar bears are one of the few species that will actively hunt humans.
Does that mean we have to shoot all of them. They are all a threat.
As I say it's a terrible tragedy what happened to the young man, and if it was shot to stop the attack as it was happening I could see that but these animals are dangerous and there is an argument to say we shouldnt enter their domain."
The young man that died was part of an adventurist group who had been trained on how toi survive in those conditions. They set up flare alerts round the camp specifically to trigger if a polar bear strayed into camp but for some reason this failsafe well, failed.
The two group leaders rushed to help the lad, one of them badly mauled in the process, two of the other members of the group were also mauled before a gun was brought to the scene of the attack and the bear was shot.
This was while the attack was taking place, not as a result of a hunt after the event.
Polar bears do not have exclusive rights to the polar regions even though it isn't an environment that man is indiginous to, but, if man and beast are to share domains then one has to accept that there will be casualties on both sides. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Its like everything humans encroaching on the wildlife's territory, Polar bear, The beautiful tiger, elephants destruction of natural habitat and rainforests its about time the animals fought back. And wonders why they are all becoming extinct its the humans bloody fault. Makes my blood boil. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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i was actually bloody disgusted about the whole story
Ok it was terrible for the lad and my heart goes out to hiis family but at the end of the day they was invading the bears back yard and it was defending its territory maybe its young but they dont think 'oh we best not go there again' no they bloody kill it in its own home so they can take more people there in safty!! im sorry but if someone came trotting thro my home id attack them too
its just disgusting
why do humans think they can kill what they like, to the point of extinction at times, but any animal that attaks us its labeled a monster and killed? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i was actually bloody disgusted about the whole story
Ok it was terrible for the lad and my heart goes out to hiis family but at the end of the day they was invading the bears back yard and it was defending its territory maybe its young but they dont think 'oh we best not go there again' no they bloody kill it in its own home so they can take more people there in safty!! im sorry but if someone came trotting thro my home id attack them too
its just disgusting
why do humans think they can kill what they like, to the point of extinction at times, but any animal that attaks us its labeled a monster and killed?"
They didn't go there to kill, they went to experience arctic life. Polar bears don't own the fookin arctic you know, it's a geological part of nature that anything can enter, man or beast, but if they are both there at the same time then bloodshed is inevitable evenutally.
This bear wasn't defending its young, it looking for food and bears are known to enter human camps when hungry. The human group had every right to defend itself, as it had every right to be in that location. They didn't go out an hunt the bear down in vengeance, they shot it while it was still mauling other people.
Animal rights campaigners need to remember that they are human beings too.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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So by that logic presumably you'd go swimming off Seal Island in South africa and then be indignant when the sharks tried to eat you?
The answer presumably then is to get rid of the sharks.
So that's the sharks and the bears you want rid of. How many other species? Tigers in India, Piranha in the Amazon?
When will man learn to respect nature and leave it alone. Probably when it's too late.
Terrible for the young lad and his family but why is it always the animal that is the bad guy for doing what it normally does? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i was actually bloody disgusted about the whole story
Ok it was terrible for the lad and my heart goes out to hiis family but at the end of the day they was invading the bears back yard and it was defending its territory maybe its young but they dont think 'oh we best not go there again' no they bloody kill it in its own home so they can take more people there in safty!! im sorry but if someone came trotting thro my home id attack them too
its just disgusting
why do humans think they can kill what they like, to the point of extinction at times, but any animal that attaks us its labeled a monster and killed?
They didn't go there to kill, they went to experience arctic life. Polar bears don't own the fookin arctic you know, it's a geological part of nature that anything can enter, man or beast, but if they are both there at the same time then bloodshed is inevitable evenutally.
This bear wasn't defending its young, it looking for food and bears are known to enter human camps when hungry. The human group had every right to defend itself, as it had every right to be in that location. They didn't go out an hunt the bear down in vengeance, they shot it while it was still mauling other people.
Animal rights campaigners need to remember that they are human beings too. "
blimey, bit passionate arnt we? no need to swear just cause you dont agree with my view on the subject which im entitled to have by the way  and i still stand by them weather you fooking agree or not |
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"So by that logic presumably you'd go swimming off Seal Island in South africa and then be indignant when the sharks tried to eat you?
The answer presumably then is to get rid of the sharks.
So that's the sharks and the bears you want rid of. How many other species? Tigers in India, Piranha in the Amazon?
When will man learn to respect nature and leave it alone. Probably when it's too late.
Terrible for the young lad and his family but why is it always the animal that is the bad guy for doing what it normally does?"
Rightie ho, didn't realise we were discussing the extinction of sharks, tigers, piranha etc all because one bear got shot, and nobody has said the polar bear was the bad guy in all this. The very reason they had guns was to defend themselves in case of a bear attack (the 3,000 local human inhabitants carry a gun as a matter of fact in that region for that reason, yet live happily side by side with bears on the whole).
Still, now that it has been shot they shouldn't waste it, there's a nice fur jacket to be had out of all this.  |
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"So by that logic presumably you'd go swimming off Seal Island in South africa and then be indignant when the sharks tried to eat you?
The answer presumably then is to get rid of the sharks.
So that's the sharks and the bears you want rid of. How many other species? Tigers in India, Piranha in the Amazon?
When will man learn to respect nature and leave it alone. Probably when it's too late.
Terrible for the young lad and his family but why is it always the animal that is the bad guy for doing what it normally does?
Rightie ho, didn't realise we were discussing the extinction of sharks, tigers, piranha etc all because one bear got shot, and nobody has said the polar bear was the bad guy in all this. The very reason they had guns was to defend themselves in case of a bear attack (the 3,000 local human inhabitants carry a gun as a matter of fact in that region for that reason, yet live happily side by side with bears on the whole).
Still, now that it has been shot they shouldn't waste it, there's a nice fur jacket to be had out of all this. "
Pretty sure the folks with guns, know where Not to go in the first place. |
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