First polar bear to swim to Iceland in 15 years is shot dead...iceberg alert!

mail online ^ | 1/11/2009 | daily mail reporter

[gigster]

Where’s the squirrel?

[ricks_place]

"...and their favorite food is Irishmen!"

[Republic of Texas]

I say we bring the guy that shot the bear to the US to head up the Border Patrol.

[Ben Mugged]

one of the species most endangered by climate change

How do they explain their numbers being 10 times more than 50 years ago?

[Mobties]

There was a post here yesterday that spoke of a substantial increase in the polar bear population over recent years. Putting that story together with this, it seems we have something similar to the infestation of deer, foraging for food, in the suburbs around New York City.

I expect to read more stories about polar bears wandering south in search of food, warmth, Carbon dioxide .... or publicity.

[PeteB570]

June 2008 story.

Are you sure it’s Breaking News?

[Uncle Miltie]

"In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it's 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent."

http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/ask-the-experts/population/

[BallyBill]

That metro-sexual guy from E.R. is inconsolable today.

[Double Tap]

Illegal alien. Sounds like a good shoot...

[proud_yank]

Man, I would love to have a polar bear rug in my living room.

Me too!! It'd go great next to my grizzly rug:)

[Vigilanteman]

LOL! I had to look twice to get the joke.

[Vigilanteman]

LOL! I had to look twice to get the joke.

[Klondike]

I agree that this story is an old one.

[Second Amendment First]

When I was a kid, a friend had a Polar bear rug in the rec room from a bear that a local doctor had taken in Norway. It was huge, like ten feet long, with a massive head and paws. The claws were the size of my fingers.

[NonValueAdded]

The receeding ice at the North Pole is jeopardising their future existence. As the ice breaks up, so their hunting and mating grounds go with it.

Hold on now ... that bear was adapting just fine. Sounds like it found some new hunting grounds and if the Icelanders don't like being prey well, too bad.

[Hot Tabasco]

First polar bear to swim to Iceland in 15 years is shot dead...

Wow, that sucks! Its like reading about the winner of the NYC marathon getting hit and killed by a bus after he crosses the finish line....

...or the winner of the Tour De France losing a wheel and crashing head first into a paparazzi car just after he crosses the finish line...

...or watching Obama fall off the podium at his inauguration and.....wait, thats no so bad.

[Oztrich Boy]

[SaraJohnson]

Now they are shooting bear refugees from Algore warming land? This is a crime against humanity..er, bearity.

[TonyfromOz]

...or watching Obama fall off the podium at his inauguration and.....

Being sliced up by the teleprompter.