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Locals, biologists free polar bear caught in fishing net in Arctic Alaska
Alasja Dispatch News ^
| September 6, 2015
| Michelle Theriault Boots
Posted on 09/07/2015 5:09:45 PM PDT by skeptoid
Kaktovik residents and visiting biologists worked together to free a large polar bear that became entangled in a fishing net near a Beaufort Sea barrier island Saturday night.
The “large male” polar bear got stuck in a net near the North Slope village of about 300 people Saturday evening, the U.S. Geological
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alaska; polarbears; sss
(Kaktovik = Cack TOE vik)
And yes, they did sedate the bear while freeing him.
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:09:46 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
To: skeptoid
Good idea to dart him....
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:12:03 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
To: skeptoid; cracker45; Tainan; Jet Jaguar; SENTINEL; redpoll; ArmyTeach; Eska; hattend; hosepipe; ...
Alaska Ping!
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:14:57 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(This Millennial is for Cruz!)
To: skeptoid
Sounds very dangerous
good job to them
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:20:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Ted Cruz is for real, 100%)
To: skeptoid
Mmm. Drugs!
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:22:27 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: skeptoid
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:22:28 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I want to live my cat's life.)
To: Bratch
Looks like he has a huge hangover!!
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:24:12 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: Tax-chick
Remings me of one of my favorite Larson cartoons.
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posted on
09/07/2015 5:51:05 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(I'm a sucker for pulchritude)
To: null and void
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posted on
09/07/2015 6:23:09 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(I need another tagline. sigh)
To: skeptoid
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posted on
09/07/2015 6:25:43 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Shimmer1
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posted on
09/07/2015 6:28:50 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Actions have consequences. Especially stupid actions.)
To: skeptoid
"Nothin' to do,
nowhere to go,
I wanna be sedated..."
--Ramones
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posted on
09/07/2015 6:36:28 PM PDT
by
W.
(Get a rope. Now.)
To: null and void
Poor baby. Are you just fried? One more day. Maybe not even one whole day
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posted on
09/07/2015 9:06:26 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(I need another tagline. sigh)
To: skeptoid
Thanks for reminding me of how much I miss his warped humor. I periodically go through my Far Side books for laughs. We sure could use him today.
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posted on
09/08/2015 4:43:49 AM PDT
by
Boomer One
( ToUses)
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