Barney amidst the carnage.
Posted on 08/03/2006 1:59:49 AM PDT by vimto
BARNEY, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog. You just ate Elvis’s teddy bear.
It was a scene of carnage at a teddy bear display in Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, Somerset, when a dog employed to guard the collection went berserk and inflicted fatal injuries on some of the prized exhibits.
Barney is a Doberman Pinscher, a dog first bred by a German tax collector around 1890 to protect him from his clients. Mabel is German, too, having been made in 1909 by the famed toymakers Steiff and is therefore an aristocrat among teddy bears.
What made Mabel really special, however, was that she was once owned by the King of rock’n’roll. But neither her pedigree nor her Germanic roots saved her from Barney’s jaws on Tuesday evening.
He bit a 2in lump of fur from her stomach and all but severed her head. She was lucky to escape with her moveable limbs intact, but exhibition staff say that her injuries are probably terminal.
Sir Benjamin Slade, the eccentric Somerset landowner and Mabel’s owner, was said yesterday to be incensed at the fate of his bear, and declined to answer his telephone. He had lent her to the exhibition after buying her for £40,000 at an auction in Memphis, Tennessee, believing her to have been the property of the singer, who counted Teddy Bear among his greatest hits.
“We have contacted Sir Benjamin. He is taking this very, very badly,” Daniel Medley, the general manager of Wookey Hole Caves, said yesterday.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2296789,00.html
Heard this on the radio last night. Giggle. Hope Elvis and Teddy Bear fans wont be too disressed!
Barney amidst the carnage.
Thanks for the photo -it's a gem isn't it!?
That it is! I can hear Barney thinking, "Bad bear; Bad bear."
Wallace and Gromit have been dispatched to investigate.
You aint nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
You aint nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
Well, you aint never caught a rabbit
And you aint no friend of mine.
When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
You aint never caught a rabbit
And you aint no friend of mine.
BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP.
Peanut butter/banana sammich please...
I don't wanna eat a tiger
Cause tigers taste too tough
I don't wanna eat a lion
cause lions ain't the kind
that taste good enough
Just wanna eat, your teddy bear
Put a chain around my neck
And lead me anywhere
Oh let me eat
Your teddy bear
It was called Grisly Bear Attack in the P I.
"Won't you be...my Teddy Bear?"
LOL! I didn't think of that one.
Could be a case of Mabel said 'No'...or, I'm thinking, Mabel said 'Yes' and things got a little ruff.
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