'Psycho' Polar Bear Knut 'Addicted to Fame'

FoxNews.com ^ | March 27, 2008

[ShadowDancer]

'Psycho' Polar Bear Knut 'Addicted to Fame'

Thursday, March 27, 2008

BERLIN — Knut the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub into a publicity-addicted psycho, one of his keepers has claimed.

Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo's celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience.

"Knut must go and the sooner the better," he said, insisting that the bear should be sent to an animal park where he received less attention

"He is addicted to the whole show, the human adulation. It is not healthy.

"He actually cries out or whimpers if he sees that there is not a spectator outside his enclosure ready to ooh and aah at him.

"When the zoo had to shut because of black ice everywhere he howled until staff members stood before him and calmed him down."

Knut was rejected by his mother after he was born in December 2006, prompting some animal activists to say it would be better for him to die than to be weaned by man.

[mtbopfuyn]

Here’s an idea. How about putting him with some other polar bears.

[Eroteme]

"He is addicted to the whole show, the human adulation. It is not healthy.

"He actually cries out or whimpers if he sees that there is not a spectator outside his enclosure ready to ooh and aah at him.

For a second there I thought this was about Bill Clinton.

[decimon]

He is too unpredictable to play with now.

I predict that Knut would eventually being playing with the liver of his human playmate.

[SlowBoat407]

Put him here for a while.

[CarrotAndStick]

Something similar happens with tigers... you put a new member into an existing group, the whole group will tear the newbie to shreds.

[armymarinemom]

"He is addicted to the whole show, the human adulation. It is not healthy.

This guy has been working at a zoo way too long. Knut's a bear Markus, not child celebrity.

[AlbertWang]

Attention is probably the least harmful choice of all the things a 2,000 pound bear can be addicted to.

Can you imagine this how unpleasant it would be if this bear was addicted to cheap whiskey? A drunked up bear is not fun, at least after the first half hour or so.

What if Knute was a crack addict? The zoo would go broke buying him rock. Plus they would need to hire a couple of people to work the lighter for him.

[Puppage]

'Psycho' Polar Bear Knut

German, Psycho, crowds.

The only think missing is the balcony

[CholeraJoe]

And the Torchlight parades.

[norraad]

...The only think missing ..., that’s what I fear about Obama (his real name is Barry, we really should start calling him by his real name).

[LIConFem]

"Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo's celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience. "

Won't be long before he has several DWIs and a stint in rehab under his belt.

[Jonah Hex]

The answer is simple... let him share an apartment with Danny Bonaduce. These two former child stars should bond well together.

[Matchett-PI]

LOL

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Isn’t he fairly conservative?

I saw a clip of him slamming some leftist documentatarian-wannabe on the boardwalk.

[garbanzo]

you put a new member into an existing group, the whole group will tear the newbie to shreds.

This frequently happens with humans too - a lot of first-time posters here will testify to that.

[jimmyo57]

“was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an audience.”

I was thinking more of Chuck Shumer!

[decimon]

Psycho bears in training.

[Jonah Hex]

Yep, and Knut can be fairly bearish as well! :-)

[Charles Henrickson]

'Psycho'

He's bipolar.