No Outer Edge To ‘Stupid’
Did you ever notice how cute polar bears look? They have shiny-white fur, and sort of stroll about unobtrusively. Sometimes they will chase each other about and wrestle playfully.
I can only guess ‘cute and cuddly’ is what a German woman was thinking when she climbed the fence at the Berlin Zoo and jumped into the polar bear exhibit.
She landed in the water. Gosh, polar bears get their own pool!
I guess she wanted to be chummy with the bear, but the bear chose a different interpretation of the word ‘chum.’
Maybe you are able to guess what happened next. Anybody? (Not Graphic)
The bear started to bite and maul her. Who could have anticipated this outcome? Other than anybody over the age of nine?
I am not being judgmental here, but a photo of the occurrence shows the woman in shiny (wet) black clothes, flapping about in the water, looking almost exactly like a seal. You know the relationship between polar bears and seals, right?
The story ends ‘happily’ enough, as zoo officials were able to distract the bear and get the woman out. She was injured severely, and is in a Berlin hospital.
Now the readers of Winkest Link (and this has been scientifically proven) have a higher IQ than the general populous, so the following message is not for you specifically…
Don’t jump in with polar bears. Or grizzly bears. Or black bears. Or lions. Or badgers. Or asps. Or elephants. Or rhinos. Or crocodiles. Or hyenas. Or sharks. There is a big long “et-cetera” that goes here.
No matter how much they look like the beanie-babies on your bed at home, these are wild animals.
To reiterate: Your beanie babies have no appetite, and are not territorial, and probably don’t have razor-sharp teeth. Wild animals do.
There is no outer edge to ‘stupid.’ We promise to keep providing evidence of that.
This video is not graphic.
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wrote on 14 April 2009 at 18:45
What the American media in their sensationilst approach did not report was that this woman has a mental illness, they are not even sure she knew what she was doing.
All you are saying is true enough, but really only for someone who is not mentally ill. Now you might say anybody that would jump into a polar bear enclosure has to be mentally ill, but that is not necessarily true. In this case, though, it is. Really sad. And good she didn’t get killed. Bravo to the animal handlers. They said she survived because the bears had just been fed and were still eating. Only one of them showed interest in her, and they were able to get him away with poles and more food.