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

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

Most people only have frequent contact with dogs, cats, and squirrels in the Mammal category, and various forms of mostly vegetarian birds in the avian category, and little or no experience with anything actually trying to eat a human. They get stuffed animals from WWF and thus think they're all *cuddly*.

Some fall into the category of "Determined Moron" - they know that the world isn't how they want it, but by Ghu they're going to act as though it was. All sorts of "believers" fall into this category; it's not limited to thinking that wild animals should be friendly and cuddly, but also wild humans, with a side dish of The Universe being on their side.