Observations From Hadleyville: VICIOUS POLAR BEAR MAULING!

Monday, April 13, 2009

VICIOUS POLAR BEAR MAULING!

Sheesh, can journalism get any worse? Apparently reporters are still in breathless, overblown, overinflated reporting mode, and the election was months ago.

Video of a woman who jumped into a German zoo's polar bear pen was released today. Since you'd HAVE to be crazy to jump into a pen of polar bears--I mean, come on, they were definitely NOT going to share a Coke with her--lets be charitable and guess the woman was a raving loon. The reporting called it a vicious polar bear attack.

Vicious. Hah.

Got news for you fellas; a polar bear attack does not result in a few scratches. 4 out of 5 arctic seals would attest that the normal result looks a lot more like 18-wheeler road kill. Far from an attack, it looked like these bears were trying to help the zoo authorities get the nutcake out of their pen.

2 comments:

Kathleen Flynn said...: SEALS? The ones with guns?; April 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Don the Baptist said...: AND HALOs!; April 14, 2009 at 6:51 AM

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