Posted on 08/20/2007 1:04:04 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Hundreds of thousands of students had their first day of school on Monday. Some of them had to learn to carry guns and be prepared to shoot -- polar bears.
Students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren't allowed to leave their village without a shotgun and ammunition. That's because hungry polar bears can be behind every swing on the island.
(Excerpt) Read more at aftenposten.no ...
Now there seems to be a big surplus.
Interesting article.....It is a good thing there is still a place in America where good sense still survives.
Marlin guide gun in 45/70. But someting tells me the play ground will be real polite.
Hey Monk do you think Looter guy would show up with Polar bear
I call BS on this story, the polar bears all drowned when the ice melted.
That ain’t America. Svalbard belongs to Norway....
Yeah, but we can’t trust college students with guns for the next Cho, who killed more of them than polar bears ever did.
TC
This is in Norway, not the US!
It is a good thing there is still a place in America where good sense still survives.
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The Norwegians will be surprised to learn that we have annexed Svalbard.
Except that that isn’t in America. It’s Svalbard, part of Norway, in the Arctic Ocean.
>>Students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard aren’t allowed to leave their village without a shotgun and ammunition. That’s because hungry polar bears can be behind every swing on the island.<<
I bet nobody takes their milk money.
OOPS, sorry.....I had a real early start to the day and I am tired, yawn,......my brain is thinking Alaska and who knows where I got that from.....
Hey Svalbard could be in Minnesota !!!!!
signed,
red in the face
sort of like they do in east LA
With neighbors like polar bears and the Russians, you really can’t afford to be caught off guard in our part of the world.
On the other hand, I actually think the Ruskies are rather sensible today.
They will remember this for a long time coming;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
Could be....we got Finland dontcha know! (google it)
“sort of like they do in east LA”
- East LA is actually very famous in Europe, in part this is due to Cheech Marin;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiFGr51ubV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eiq8z4cxLo
“without a shotgun and ammunition”
Tackling a polar bear with a shotgun is a good way to commit suicide. You might get very lucky, but the odds are badly against it.
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