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Man mauled after trying to have picnic with bear in Swiss zoo
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Posted on 11/25/2009 11:22:48 AM PST by marthemaria

A man was just moments away from death as he hung in the jaws of a bear he tried to have a picnic with in a Swiss zoo. But in the end it was the bear who ended up fighting for his life after police shot it in order to save the life of the uninvited intruder into his enclosure.

These dramatic photographs were taken by a visitor to the Bern Park, Switzerland, on Sunday when Finn, a European brown bear aged four, suddenly realised the unwanted human guest in his home.

The 25-year-old man's bid to party with Finn mirrors a similar escapade in Berlin Zoo in Germany on Good Friday this year when Mandy Knobloch, 32, jumped in to swim with the polar bears.

She was severely mauled but rescued before keepers had to open fire on the bears.

Finn was not so lucky. As his massive jaws – capable of crushing steel – and eight-inch fangs that can rip flesh like paper sank into his prey, police had to act fast to save the life of his prey.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: napl
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1 posted on 11/25/2009 11:22:48 AM PST by marthemaria
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To: marthemaria

Never feed a bear a marshmallow like this


2 posted on 11/25/2009 11:24:09 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: marthemaria

Darwin Award winner?


3 posted on 11/25/2009 11:24:35 AM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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To: marthemaria

Are they sure this wasn’t Obama? He thinks we can picnic with our enemies around the world.


4 posted on 11/25/2009 11:25:30 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A MELTING POT not a potters wheel. Join us. Don't try to turn this nation into the one you fled.)
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To: marthemaria

It wasn’t his pray, the bear was just having pervert on a platter.


5 posted on 11/25/2009 11:25:48 AM PST by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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To: marthemaria

It is liberalism/environmentalism that is trying to turn our natural and healthy view of wild animals as predators into seeing them as loving, caring, sympathetic and gentle teddy bears we can cuddle and hug.

And, at this point, I have to agree with Savage. Liberalism IS a mental disorder.


6 posted on 11/25/2009 11:25:58 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: marthemaria

Yogi hosts a new game show - Are You Smarter Than The Average Bear?


7 posted on 11/25/2009 11:25:58 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: marthemaria

Stupid is as stupid does.


8 posted on 11/25/2009 11:26:28 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: marthemaria
DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!..........
9 posted on 11/25/2009 11:26:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: marthemaria

They shot the bear to save the worthless life of a lunatic...


10 posted on 11/25/2009 11:26:45 AM PST by max americana (i)
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To: marthemaria

The nitwit antagonizes the bear and the bear gets shot?


11 posted on 11/25/2009 11:26:54 AM PST by fortunate sun (Newt who?)
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To: marthemaria

Here’s ur sign!


12 posted on 11/25/2009 11:27:10 AM PST by CholeraJoe (I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter.)
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To: marthemaria

How it was supposed to be.

13 posted on 11/25/2009 11:27:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: marthemaria

i like the end of the story “Police and zoo officials say there has been an outpouring of public sympathy after the incident – for the bear.”


14 posted on 11/25/2009 11:27:47 AM PST by darkside321
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To: Hegemony Cricket

15 posted on 11/25/2009 11:27:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: marthemaria

I love this paragraph:

Police and zoo officials say there has been an outpouring of public sympathy after the incident – for the bear.


16 posted on 11/25/2009 11:28:12 AM PST by BuckyKat
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” As his massive jaws – capable of crushing steel – and eight-inch fangs that can rip flesh like paper ....”

Is that a bear, or the t-rex from Jurassic Park? Idiot reporter.

17 posted on 11/25/2009 11:28:26 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: marthemaria

When there's Wild Turkey in the picnic basket, stay clear of Yogi!

18 posted on 11/25/2009 11:28:33 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: fortunate sun

If you go out in the ZOO today,
You’d better not go alone.
It’s lovely out in the ZOO today,
But safer to stay at home.

For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic


19 posted on 11/25/2009 11:29:52 AM PST by catman67
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“Police and zoo officials say there has been an outpouring of public sympathy after the incident – for the bear.”

In this case I have to agree, I feel bad for the bear.


20 posted on 11/25/2009 11:29:54 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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