Posted on 04/03/2023 4:33:48 AM PDT by marktwain
A bit after noon on February 27 at Vestpynten in the Svalbard Archipelago (administered by Norway), far north of the arctic circle, a polar bear was shot during a conflict with people and dogs. Vestpynten is a small village in the Archipelago roughly 90 miles North and a bit West of Longyerbyen.
The incident report was uncovered with a Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request by AmmoLand. Individual names have been redacted. The report was translated into English, so it has been edited for readability, and fictitious names have been substituted. From the FOIA account, incident 162:
The bear was observed around 12-13 hours by Joan and Jill at the first cabin on Vestpynten after the camping place. The next cabin is Ralph. They saw the bear on the shore, walking towards Ralph’s cabin. The dogs (8) Ralph had with him had warned him about the bear and he started taking them inside. To the witnesses on the other cabin it looked like the bear was smelling the dogs and getting interested. Ralph said he had 3 dogs left outside when the bear arrived at the cabin. The witnesses only saw 1. Ralph tells that the bear had a dark spot on the belly, maybe from oil spill and that it was very aggressive. He went to get a special weapon, “rubber-bullet-gun”. At about 1m distance he fired one shot at the bear. He think it hit the bear in the side. Joan couldn’t see the weapon properly, but she thought it was a pistol because he was holding it with one hand. She could not see it if the bear reacted after the first shot, but she said that he fired one more shot and that the bear then jumped and ran away towards the sea. Ralph himself claims he
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Rubber bullets...
Bear had a latex allergy?
One meter? Couldn't he have waited a little longer and just pistol whipped the bear?
Very weird story, equally reported.
If the data will reflect ‘unknown’, why lead off with rubber bullets?
So there’s nowhere any animals are safe from humans? Polar Bears are to be shot in the arctic circle because humans just have to be there? I’m sick to death how many of you think it’s always so cool to read about animals getting shot in their own habitats, like anywhere any human treads is our space and we need to just start shooting because we are god kings of all the land.
No other creatures deserve or belong anywhere in a human presence? Dogs are ok I guess, especially for their hunting ability. Animals are good when they can assist in the killing of other less cute animals.
The headlines are determined by the editor.
Your question implies there should be spaces where humans are not safe from animals.
The polar bear in question went after humans. It was protected by law until it did so.
There are enormous, growing areas where animals are protected from hunting.
Are you saying animals should have a legal right to prey on humans?
The post is an outlier; it smacks of clickbait.
Chastise the editor.
If you can’t be with the one you love,
love the one your with.
No bear alive today has been in the artic longer then man.
Humans living out in the wild should have the same self defense and self preservation a wild animal has, which is the weapons you are born with your bare hands and teeth. If you are living among polar bears, fight them on their terms . Animals have a right to this land the same as us, and many species were here first.
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” [Gen 1:26–28].
Who would forget the infamous rioter shot in his groin with a pepper ball?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBJSFkAS8U
Good times... good times...
That should not be interpreted as carte blanche to overtake and overrun, or kill all of God’s creatures. Holding dominion implies showing grace to the animals we must live with, and general good stewardship.
That's true. But it does provide the reason why we have the right to go into places where animals live. And it does provide the reason why we can defend ourselves when we do.
A little Comic Relief on a Monday...cool!
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Now tell us how you wrestle Bears
In Stillettos and Under Roos !
Damn right it is!!! The whole friggin' planet is our habitat.
Hilarious!
Either cut your meds in Half
Or Double it Brudda!
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Are you on TIK TOC?
Bullshit. We humans fight on OUR terms, in OUR habitat, which (again) is the whole friggin' planet.
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