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Lonely man jumps into polar bear’s cage in Berlin (Knut the polar bear)
bostonherald.com via AP ^ | December 22, 2008 | AP

Posted on 12/22/2008 8:42:18 AM PST by GQuagmire

BERLIN — A man jumped into the Berlin zoo enclosure of famed polar bear Knut today, but officials were able to keep the animal away from the intruder by distracting him with a leg of beef, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dumbass; knut
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To: Titan Magroyne; Lady Jag

I have a feeling that C.D. will catch this one on the rebound.


21 posted on 12/22/2008 10:24:39 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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To: GQuagmire

Maybe he loves the bear. In a more just society, he and the bear would be able to legally wed.


22 posted on 12/22/2008 10:26:18 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Stay tuned.


23 posted on 12/22/2008 10:28:24 AM PST by Lady Jag (DONATE NOW at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: LucyT

He’s still cute, even though his jaws can crush bones these days.


24 posted on 12/22/2008 10:32:52 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: Slings and Arrows; All
This is the same bear that the animal rights wackos wanted dead last year

 

Abandoned baby polar bear is 'better off dead' than raised in zoo ('Animal rights' activists)

25 posted on 12/22/2008 10:36:43 AM PST by Stoat (Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Mr. Silverback; nw_arizona_granny; Fred Nerks
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26 posted on 12/22/2008 10:40:30 AM PST by LucyT
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To: Lady Jag

For an event like that, I can easily believe that Ronnie Barker would come back from the dead to host.


27 posted on 12/22/2008 10:50:11 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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To: Stoat

< nitpick>Two years ago< /nitpick>, yes. Maybe they could climb into the enclosure to explain their position to Knut.


28 posted on 12/22/2008 10:51:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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To: LucyT

Yep, looks like he already knows how to pose.


29 posted on 12/22/2008 10:58:48 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: LucyT

Looks like Liberace, sitting at the piano, looking for his brother George.


30 posted on 12/22/2008 10:59:40 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: Stoat; Mr. Silverback; JimSEA; BerryDingle; GQuagmire; Lady Jag; Daffynition; Rushmore Rocks; ...

THE KNUT DISPUTE
Zoos Face Off in Polar Bear Brouhaha
12/17/2008
By Wiebke Hollersen

He’s the world’s most popular polar bear, and he’s brought thousands together. But for two German zoo directors he’s the focus of a simmering dispute about who really owns the once “Cute Knut.”

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A lawyer on the board of directors is currently familiarizing himself with Knut’s legal status.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596834,00.html


31 posted on 12/22/2008 11:20:03 AM PST by LucyT
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To: Slings and Arrows

He may already have come back. Some say they spotted him in the audience at Wimbledon this year.


32 posted on 12/22/2008 11:20:22 AM PST by Lady Jag (DONATE NOW at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: GQuagmire

Getting yourself put in a critical care unit will cure your loneliness alright. Since he didn’t get mauled I suppose jail will be second best.


33 posted on 12/22/2008 11:25:47 AM PST by TigersEye (I threw my shoe at Mohammed and hit Allah in the butt.)
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To: LucyT
distracting him with a leg of beef...

Him the man or the bear....

Depends on what the definition of him is?.....

Were her legs that good looking?

34 posted on 12/22/2008 11:53:34 AM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: KellyM37; AmericanGirlRising; LongIslandConservative; Fred Nerks; LucyT

Bear-ach for a good laugh!


35 posted on 12/22/2008 12:00:45 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: LucyT
A Polar Bear Lover
36 posted on 12/22/2008 1:57:33 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

Thanks.

Stupid woman. No sympathy here. Wonder if she is related to Timothy Treadwell.

The caged Bear was killed for acting like a Bear.


37 posted on 12/22/2008 2:06:08 PM PST by LucyT
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To: mikrofon; martin_fierro

Ich bin ein Bipolar . . . Bypolar?


38 posted on 12/22/2008 2:23:55 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (". . . the man told them that he felt lonely and the bear appeared lonely, too.")
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To: LucyT

Many thanks, LucyT

Ping.


39 posted on 12/22/2008 7:40:12 PM PST by Iowan
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To: Slings and Arrows

Lordy, I hope!

We really won’t miss one more idiot in this great wide world, will we? Shoot, even maggots gotta eat.


40 posted on 12/22/2008 8:29:48 PM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Drill now drill hard drill often and give old Gaia a cigarette afterwards she deserves it." HerrBlu)
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