[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

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[BiffWondercat]

"Just sing softly to it, it's harmless...."

[Batrachian]

"...the woman most likely provoked the animal."

What did she do, give it the middle finger?

[Leo Carpathian]

Where are all the envirowakos when we need them? Any volunteers to move there to live in harmony with nature - bears?

[dark_lord]

Bears roam free on the island and are rarely aggressive, the reserve's director Leonid Bove said, adding that the woman most likely provoked the animal.

What an idiot. Polar bears have hunted, killed, and eaten humans for millennia.

[GeronL]

If an island becomes a bear reserve... stay away

[HamiltonJay]

Provoked? Not known to be agressive? BULL POOP! Polar Bears are known to actively HUNT HUMAN BEINGS!!!! These tree huggers are such lying sacks of crap.

Polar bears are not cuddly little Coca Cola mascots.

[4mycountry]

Say it with me now... IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!! ;)

[lawdude]

Don't you just hate it when this happens. Another needless polar bear crime.

Perhaps if they gave the bear prozac, he would not be polar?

[Malacoda]

Wait. I sense that we've found the location for the next PETA convention!

[Waco]

"Sing softly to it." I suggest "Swing low, sweet chariot."

[RightWhale]

the woman most likely provoked the animal.

They killed a polar bear on the North Slope a couple years that was just minding its own business smashing into the cabin through the side wall approximately where the window was.

[GeorgiaYankee]

Hey! Why wasn't that villager on the endangered species list?

[jwalburg]

Quincy's cousin

[Verginius Rufus]

Wrangel Island is off the north coast of Siberia, very far east--further east than some of the Aleutian Islands. I saw a program once about pygmy mammoths that survived there long after mammoths had become extinct elsewhere. I don't know if polar bears had anything to do with their demise.

[hedgetrimmer]

Environmentalists stink! They kick people off their land for "preserves", they have no right to do that. They are trying to kick a rancher off his ranch in New Mexico right now so it can become part of a "preserve". No wonder this person wanted to go back, it was her home.

[Reaganesque]

Had she recently gotten back from a trip to Las Vegas? Did she have big hair?

[F.J. Mitchell]

"the woman most likely provoked the animal."

Right! Blame the victem.

[thegreatbeast]

Well now she knows. You don't poke the bear!

[ChemistCat]

I don't have time to do a Google search to make sure, but I seem to remember that polar bears aren't actually bears at all, but related to minks and weasels.

Imagine a weasel THAT BIG!

And when we're all bundled up warmly, we look a LOT like seals!

That's PROVOCATIVE!