"Pennyaline" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I never did hear why that German woman jumped in with the polar
>> bears or how badly she was injured. I'm pretty sure they didn't
>> feel the need to kill the innocent bear.
>
> She didn't jump in. Apparently she felt the bear needed a friend or a
> hug or was trying to talk to it or something and leaned into the
> enclosure, and fell in.

Maybe she confused real polar bears with stuffed animal polar bears.
Or maybe she's just crazy.

> They didn't have to kill the bears to get her
> out, but it was coming pretty close to it and she was being pawed and
> nipped and mauled all the way out.

I saw them trying to pull her out with ropes and life preservers
of some sort. Then I heard them start with the "are zoos safe
enough" and I changed the channel.

Of course, I have to wonder about a zoo where you could lean
right over the bear exhibit, enough to fall in, they might have a
point. But some people will just find a way to get hurt, one way
or another.

> They killed the tiger 1) because it was out of its enclosure and 2)
> because it was still with one of its victims, who was alive at the time.
> To get the victim, they had to dispatch the cat. What a shame to kill a
> beautiful animal for being itself.

Very sad.

> I hope they sent the dumb ass woman from the polar bear incident to get
> her head shrunk. How ignorant, self-centered and disturbed is it to
> think that a wild animal needs a scratch behind the ears or whatever she
> thought she was doing. It's incredibly obvious that these animals aren't
> teddy bears, yet people still forget or overlook that they are predators
> in the wild, and one of many wild animals that will run down and kill a
> human being if they want to.

I think some people have no idea of the strength and speed of wild
animals in general. Too many cartoons in their youth, maybe.

nancy