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Polar bear kills last villager
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 10.16.03

Posted on 10/16/2003 7:11:29 PM PDT by mhking

A polar bear has killed the last villager on Russia's Vrangel island off the northern Chukotka peninsula, scientists at a local reserve said today.

The reserve's workers attempted to save Vasilina Alpaun, who was attacked on her own doorstep, but were too late.

The Ushakovskoye village had been abandoned since 1997, when its inhabitants were moved to the peninsula to make way for the bear reserve, but Alpaun, 25, returned to her old home shortly afterwards.

Bears roam free on the island and are rarely aggressive, the reserve's director Leonid Bove said, adding that the woman most likely provoked the animal.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; leftbehind; polarbear; russia; stoptheinsanity; wildlife; wrangellisland
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To: Batrachian
No, she sang to it dummy, same thing happened here in the States. Check out other FReep threads regarding bears.
61 posted on 10/16/2003 9:11:41 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: TopQuark
No the bear read the Farside cartoon when the two bears were talking about pushing the door bell and out would pop a meal. They thought her house was a vending machine.
62 posted on 10/16/2003 9:13:56 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: Judith Anne
I found a web site of a bear attacking a nuke sub. It is chewing on the aft fin. They have pictures of it. Pretty neat.
63 posted on 10/16/2003 9:16:33 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Bull crap, reread the other thread. We are ahead 2 to 1 on the Russians. Our bear hit a double.
64 posted on 10/16/2003 9:21:02 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: jrp
Food?



65 posted on 10/16/2003 9:22:21 PM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
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To: HamiltonJay
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/151/HR-0294.jpg
66 posted on 10/16/2003 9:25:50 PM PDT by gg188
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To: SevenDaysInMay
When I was drunk, I also mounted a large female bear. I got love letters from her while I was in the hospital for three weeks begging me to do it again.
67 posted on 10/16/2003 9:25:59 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: FreedomPoster
I put in a few of my normal comments.
68 posted on 10/16/2003 9:27:34 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Nuke the gay,black, feminist, whales for Jesus)
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To: mhking
the woman most likely provoked the animal.

Bull%$#.  

She grew up there.  Her people had lived there for Lord-knows how many generations and she didn't know how to act around the indigenous wildlife?

Do environmentalists have to lie about everything?  Just freaking admit that polar bears are polar bears you piece of liberal crap "biologist".

69 posted on 10/16/2003 9:32:46 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Kenny Bunk
That Alaskan bear didn't understand the weekly media cycle for animal attacks.

He attacked during Tiger Week. Maybe he understood, but the opportunity was too good to pass up...
70 posted on 10/16/2003 9:40:42 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: null and void; Darksheare; Chad Fairbanks
Bear feasts on human ping....don't know why these weird threads always make me think of y'all).
71 posted on 10/16/2003 9:44:55 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: GeronL
"They're wrong but they have too much power and she was alone"

They just wanted to have a bearbecue.

72 posted on 10/16/2003 9:46:25 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty

Bear on fire??

73 posted on 10/16/2003 9:51:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Please visit www.geocities.com/geronl and http://freestateparty.50megs.com)
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To: mhking
If my memory is correct did not the US discover and claim the Wrangel Islands? Did not the Soviets invade and take control of the Islands under Stalin's rule? Can we blame this on bush? So many questions, so little time!
74 posted on 10/16/2003 9:52:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Life is hell. Learn to live with it!)
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To: U S Army EOD
LOL! Oh that is bad!
75 posted on 10/16/2003 9:56:11 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: mhking
"Vasilina Alpaun, suffering from laryngitis, was set upon by an angry mob of Ursine-Vrangellians who demanded a pound of flesh when she wouldn't sing to them...
76 posted on 10/16/2003 9:56:43 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: U S Army EOD
"No the bear read the Farside cartoon when the two bears were talking about pushing the door bell and out would pop a meal. They thought her house was a vending machine."

ROTFL!

77 posted on 10/16/2003 9:57:57 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: mhking
Wonder what's really going on on that island that they need to replace the native population with wild animals.
78 posted on 10/16/2003 10:08:15 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Mmmm...White Castles...
79 posted on 10/16/2003 10:09:57 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: dark_lord
"....eaten humans for millennia."

Tastes like chicken morons.

80 posted on 10/16/2003 10:11:34 PM PDT by stboz
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