March of the idiots

[johnridley]

What the heck is up with all the morons jumping fences to get some face time with bears and such lately? Seems like every month some moron decides to go on in and get a chunk of flesh removed.

Apparently the latest is a woman in Berlin who decided to go say hi to a polar bear.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/11/polar.bear.attack/index.html

I mean, OK, you wanna go pet something, fine, I don't think my first choice would be an 800 pound, 9 foot tall carnivore. Especially since the encounter would take place in the water, where IT is at home and humans definitely are not.

Do these people think if something is "cute" that it doesn't behave just like any other animal? That somehow they're exempt from the food chain or from territorial aggression? Or are they just morons?

Comments

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

You forgot the part where she did this during feeding time, when the bears would be at their hungriest and their most territorial.