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Tourist in Svalbard during solar eclipse mauled by polar bear
telegraph.co.uk ^
| 19 Mar 2015
| Our Foreign Staff
Posted on 03/19/2015 10:39:34 AM PDT by Gamecock
A tourist visiting Svalbard in Norway's Arctic during the solar eclipse has been mauled by a polar bear, said police.
The Czech man, who has not been identified, suffered minor injuries when a bear attacked the tent he was sleeping in on the remote archipelago.
Some 3,000 polar bears live in the region, outnumbering the 2,500 inhabitants.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bear; polarbear
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:39:34 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
Pretty lame mauling if the victim only suffered minor injuries.
And what's with polar bears outnumbering humans? I thought they were endangered because of Globull warming?
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:41:05 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval officer.)
To: Gamecock
From the article:
“A person in the group shot at the bear with a handgun, prompting the animal to flee. “
That is why nobody got eaten.
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:43:38 AM PDT
by
thorvaldr
To: Gamecock
Lucky guy. They usually eat you. Unlike the black and brown bear they are not after your twinkies they are after you. :-)
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:44:45 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Gamecock
Polar bears look for tourists who were in Svalbard during the solar eclipse. They’re like a delicacy.
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:47:13 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Gamecock
To: Gamecock
I wonder if the mauling was triggered by the tourist telling the bear; “I love you bear.” The bear was simply enraged by the smarmy liberal mouthing.
To: Gamecock
It was a minor mauling. It made the man mildly enraged about the slightly appalling safety conditions. Everyone should have just a titch of outrage or at least negligible panic about it.
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:53:49 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Gamecock
Guess the bear didn’t like the amount of the Czech................
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posted on
03/19/2015 10:56:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
Yeah.. the Czech was completely eclipsed by the bear.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:00:22 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: Red Badger
“Um... yeah... forget the eclipse. I’ve spotted Ursa Major!”
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:01:48 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: Gamecock
Knut
Grew Up !!
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:02:05 AM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: Gamecock
The bear didn’t want the whole Czech, just a tip.
To: Gamecock
Good thing, or the guy would have ended up a cancelled Czech.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:08:36 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: b4its2late
Good thing, or the guy would have ended up a cancelled Czech.
Oh my what a stinker ,LOL
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:20:20 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: molson209
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:23:51 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
When I was a kid my friend had a polar bear rug in the family room that was killed in Norway by a local doctor.
It was huge and the head, teeth and claws were massive. Overall length was probably 10-12 feet.
To: Second Amendment First
Why did the doctor kill the family room in Norway? Couldn’t he’ve done it right there? :-)
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:38:33 AM PDT
by
Moltke
("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
To: Second Amendment First
Those things are truly scary. I read a story a long time ago about how in the old days sometimes an Inuit village would lose a lot of people to a Polar bear as it would come back every night and dig out one igloo. Frightening.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:45:52 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Gamecock
There is a solar eclipse here in the USA on April 4th.
Beware of Grizzly bears!
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