Posted on 07/30/2018 5:48:28 PM PDT by Simon Green
Norwegian authorities on Monday defended the actions of guards from a German cruise ship that killed a polar bear that had attacked and injured a crew member, saying they at first tried to scare it away. Police spokesman Ole Jakob Malmo said two members of the 12-man crew that set foot on the most northern island of the Svalbard archipelago ahead of tourists on Saturday first tried to ward off the bear "by shouting and making loud noises as well as firing a signal pistol, but to no effect."
A 42-year-old German man who was not identified sustained minor head injuries from the attack, Malmo said.
The incident sparked international outrage, with animal rights activists saying that it was wrong to begin with to let tourists from the MS Bremen cruise ship encroach upon territory known as a habitat for the vulnerable species.
The German cruise ship operator Hapag Lloyd Cruises said on its Facebook page that the purpose of the landing on Svalbard was not "to serve the purpose of polar bear observation, on the contrary: polar bears are only observed from aboard ships, from a safe distance."
British comedian Ricky Gervais took to Twitter to call the tourists "morons," while another user, Jane Roberts, said that if such tourism was banned, guards "wouldn't be needed to protect gawking tourists & polar bears would be left in peace & not shot dead merely to satisfy a photo op."
The archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole is known for its stunning snow-covered mountains, fjords and glaciers, and is a popular cruise ship destination. An estimated 60 percent of the archipelago is covered with ice, and its 3,000 polar bears are said to outnumber the human population, BBC News reports.
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If fat, entitled tourists want to take floating 5-star hotels to the article circle and places that man rarely visited before 25 years ago - then they ought to expect a dead polar bear once in a while. Humans are on their turf.
I’m “outraged!” Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
(pointing) I didn't get a "harumph" outa that guy!
Agreed
There is NO “international outrage”. A few fringe environmental wackos fart and CBS thinks its a tsunami of protests.
To hell with human life says CBS and the wackos. Protect the bears. Save Mars from colonization. Outlaw plastic straws!
Don’t mind us while we drink out coffee-bean slave labor lotte’s.
If there is to be any “international outrage”, it should be against CBS (The Communist Broadcasting System) for hiring leftist creeps like Lying Dan Rather, Morley “The VN Blackmarketeer) Safer, and others and letting them give us anti-American shit for decades.
As I mentioned before, Rather and a few other CBS creeps were lucky to get out of Nam alive. They were not favorites of the Marines and a few wanted to us them for target practice (substituting them for their friends the VC).
#11. The bear was on the ship’s menu for dinner. As Obama said/or his buttboy Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a dead bear go to waste”.
So who gets to keep the bear skin?
Okay. I stand corrected.
Did cruise ship guards have to kill polar bear? Experts say maybe — but blame climate change
They shouldn’t have killed the bear, they should have let the bear kill as many people, as it wanted... (do I really need a sarc. tag for this ?)
The incident sparked international outrage, with animal rights activists saying that it was wrong to begin with to let tourists from the MS Bremen cruise ship encroach upon territory known as a habitat for the vulnerable species.
IOW, it didn't spark international outrage -- I'm not from those nations, and I'm not outraged -- it merely cranked up some virtue-signalling, holier-than-thou, entertainment industry nitwits. It is evident that the cruise line has done this kind of thing before, probably many times in the past, but this time they stepped in the doodoo. Thanks Simon Green.
Looks like someone knows how to shoot - funny how folks say people shouldn’t be allowed in areas where animals generally rule - if they were around and had their way when Man was spreading around the globe, we would live in a very small enclave and the world would be empty of Men.
Ping to a thread from yesterday, just ICYMI.
These idiots are in a constant state of outrage. If it wasn’t for their anger they would shrivel up and disappear. They are always trying to destroy someone or something, or force some sexual perversion on everyone else.
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