Darwin award for the day

Letum · 04-13-09, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Frame57

What an immensly stupid human being. If she became bear chow it would have been sad because they would probably put the bears down.

Really?
I doubt it. They already know bears kill people.

kiwi_2005 · 04-13-09, 01:51 AM

Yeah i saw this on tv today i couldn't stop laughing at this idiot, apart of me wished she had got eaten.

Janus · 04-13-09, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Yeah i saw this on tv today i couldn't stop laughing at this idiot, apart of me wished she had got eaten.

And of course in this case anyone would demand to kill all polar bears in Germany or even close all Zoos because it is so dangerous. But with all those reports about morons commiting school shootings these days, everyone talks about abolishing (fire-)arms here, lol.

Schroeder · 04-13-09, 02:53 AM

Actually the woman is mentally deranged. So this has nothing to do with stupidity and definitely does not deserve a Darwin Award (even if she had died). Ann odd thing non the less...

Raptor1 · 04-13-09, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Actually the woman is mentally deranged. So this has nothing to do with stupidity and definitely does not deserve a Darwin Award (even if she had died). Ann odd thing non the less...

I dunno, this seems pretty explainable with the stupidity case

No darwin award because she didn't die (or otherwise got removed from the gene pool) though...

stabiz · 04-13-09, 04:52 AM

I read she did it to "swim with the polar bears".

Schroeder · 04-13-09, 05:25 AM

On German news they said that she is deranged.

Skybird · 04-13-09, 05:28 AM

The woman is psychologically unstable. She has problems, lost her job and lives by lowest social wellfare (Hartz-IV, some 300 Euros).

The bear area is safe as far as the bears trying to get out is concerned. Saving the audience from itself, is something different. Stupid fools should be fed, I think. Ill people like in this example should be helped. however, changing the whole area just because of two incidents (it is already the second time somebody jumps to the bears, I think).

It may have something to do with one of the bears in Berlin having come to fame as a puppy. The pictures of little "Knut" playing with his keeper (who meanwhile died), went around the globe.

Frame57 · 04-13-09, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Letum

Really?
I doubt it. They already know bears kill people.

IMO I would say yes, because it is like when a wild lion in Africa gets the taste for human flesh it becomes a man eater and has to be hunted down and killed. These bears even though in a zoo would be no different. They would see the otherwise pesky people who come to the zoo as being something to eat.

SteamWake · 04-13-09, 10:52 AM

Heres some video on the incident

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video0...w.foxnews.com/

Letum · 04-13-09, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Frame57

IMO I would say yes, because it is like when a wild lion in Africa gets the taste for human flesh it becomes a man eater and has to be hunted down and killed. These bears even though in a zoo would be no different. They would see the otherwise pesky people who come to the zoo as being something to eat.

That bear certainly got a taste!

antikristuseke · 04-13-09, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Frame57

IMO I would say yes, because it is like when a wild lion in Africa gets the taste for human flesh it becomes a man eater and has to be hunted down and killed. These bears even though in a zoo would be no different. They would see the otherwise pesky people who come to the zoo as being something to eat.

Unless you can provide a citation for this, I am going to call shenanigans. I would put my money on geting revenge on said lion more than said lion begining to systematicaly pray on humans.

AVGWarhawk · 04-13-09, 11:32 AM

Whatever the case, I'm betting those bears would have the hersey squirts after eating that woman.

Digital_Trucker · 04-13-09, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Whatever the case, I'm betting those bears would have the hersey squirts after eating that woman.

I bet that drumstick looked awfully appetizing to the the bear.

UnderseaLcpl · 04-13-09, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by antikristuseke

Unless you can provide a citation for this, I am going to call shenanigans. I would put my money on geting revenge on said lion more than said lion begining to systematicaly pray on humans.

Besides the citation of "The Ghost in the Darkness"?

I'm not going to go to too much trouble to research this but wiki indicates a unique tendency amongst lions to become man-eaters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eater

Whether or not polar bears have the same tendency I cannot say. A couple sites I checked out were conservationist sites, which put the average death toll at 2 humans per year or so due to polar bear attacks.
Official statistics cite around 30 bear attacks per year but do not name individual species. The case is hard to compare no matter what methods are used because polar bears live in very sparsely populated areas most of the time.
Polar bears are very territorial and solitary predators, which might make them react violently to intrusive humans, but whether or not they could become compulsive man-eaters is something I do not know.

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stabiz Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 4,224 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	I read she did it to "swim with the polar bears". __________________

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Schroeder Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Banana Republic of Germany Posts: 6,170 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	On German news they said that she is deranged. __________________ Putting Germ back into Germany.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,714 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The woman is psychologically unstable. She has problems, lost her job and lives by lowest social wellfare (Hartz-IV, some 300 Euros). The bear area is safe as far as the bears trying to get out is concerned. Saving the audience from itself, is something different. Stupid fools should be fed, I think. Ill people like in this example should be helped. however, changing the whole area just because of two incidents (it is already the second time somebody jumps to the bears, I think). It may have something to do with one of the bears in Berlin having come to fame as a puppy. The pictures of little "Knut" playing with his keeper (who meanwhile died), went around the globe. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Heres some video on the incident http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video0...w.foxnews.com/ __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

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