How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?

Ah, but they're so cute and cuddly. Al Gore says so.....

People that stupid put their lives in mortal danger just by getting up in the morning.

Guy from down east went up to a buffalo in Elk Island Park by Edmonton and tried to pet it.

When he woke up in the hospital........

Funny how they aren't always like the ones in the movies, eh?

She must be a Liberal

How ironic that, in the enclosure, there was a bear named Knut.

I always thought hippos wore tutu's and frolicked in the river, just like they do in Fantasia, but it turns out that they're one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. I saw a group (gaggle, gang) of them up close on the Chobe River in Botswana and realized that they're huge, have very sharp teeth and could over-turn a boat and kill everyone in it if it felt threatened. One had done just that a few weeks prior to my visit.
NeilD

Compare/contrast Islam's Sudden Jihad Syndrome with Gaia's Sudden AGW-Eco-Gore Syndrome.

Same difference:

Martyrdom for Allah-Mo; martyrdom for Gaia-Gore.

"But I just wanted to give it a Coke and a smile!"

Culling the herd.

I saw footage of this on the news last night. Just as she was finally being pulled to safety one of the bears bit her in the ass. Rather fitting if you ask me....

This is the second time in a year or so that someone has gone for a swim with the bears?

Now, I could not care less about the idiots that jump in, but come now, I think it is time for a real fence. Honest working folk have to risk their lives to get these idiots out.

To say nothing of the danger to the animals. All them nasty trans fats.

And others risked their lifes to save her from her own stupidity.

Same deal as responsible, hard working types risking their tax money on the flakes and their scams.

"But I just wanted to give it a Coke and a smile!"

Posted by: grok at April 13, 2009 9:56 AM

No doubt there will be a youtube postting of this video with Beach Boys background music.

True story - a few years ago I while visiting my parents who were living in Toronto, we met a young couple at church who had recently moved to TO from Venezuela. We had lunch with them and learned they were both highly educated (one was an engineer the other was an architect). When I mentioned I lived in Manitoba, they told that they had always wanted to visit Churchill for a polar bear tour. They went on to tell me how playful polar bears were and how wonderful it would be to go to Churchill and play with them.

Walt Disney definitely has alot to answer for.

No that is just not you Kate,

I agree with you.

And I have been saying for decades that liberalism/leftism/nanny-statism etc... are reversing the process of natural selection by saving every idiot who can then transmit their idiot genes to their offspring...

and this is slowly turning mankind into a dumber species.

You know, given the size and power of those bears, they were probably just fooling around with her. Nibbling, like.

Guess they weren't hungry, eh? Pity.

Ron in Kelowna: Our people in the armed forces volunteered to perform similiar services almost every day.

Yuppers...from the lady taliban'er, to the mental midgets measuring ice in the arctic, to the morons who ski/snowmobile in avalanche zones and now this latest example of complete retardation(yes, I said retardation, cuz even my brother with down's syndrome is smart enough to know that it would be wrong to try to pet the polar bears)....just another idiot requiring rescue.

Right you are, tower !! It must be so frustrating.

They should leave a rope dangling over the wall on a permanent basis. Next time when someone deliberately jumps in if they get out on their own fine, if not, well that's the way she goes.

Phantom I agree they seemed to be playing with her. If the report I read was true she swam right over. If the bears had been mad she wouldn't have made it back to the wall.

the sad fact is that people who do these stupid things, they have a total disconnect from reality, also get to vote in a democracy, using their same disconnected thinking to make their choice!!!

Climbing through pricker bushes probably tenderized her nicely, and was a thoughtful gesture; but climbing a fence sounds impossible for most "Animals-Are-People-Too" types.

Coming to a zoo near you "Knute Chute" (patent pending), no more difficult fences, and awkward tumbles.
Donations out back.
"Look who's sliding to dinner"

This Knute is a maladjusted polar bear. His mother rejected him and he was hand-raised by German hippies (shudder); there's a very scary photograph of him from about a year ago trying to bite the head off a toddler.
They're all rotten, though, polar bears.

I must agree with our gracious hostess. This twit should have been left to the bears' devices, and removed from the gene pool. Sadly, as it stands, she will only receive a Darwin honourable mention.

"She had to climb over a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall to get in."

Followed by:

"The woman has proved herself to be careless by jumping into the enclosure," a police spokesman said afterwards.

Try reconciling those two parts of the story. Geez.

Things are shaping up for a black bear spring in Coquitlam B.C.. The bears will come to us and God help any Police or Wildlife officer who has to shoot one. Last year one attacked a lady working in her garden. It did the usual bear thingy; it held her down and began to eat her arm. Likely because it was not covered by that bad tasting heavy skin we humans all seem to ware. Good thing she did not have on bare mid-rift fashion designers. A neighbor had to employ his car to get it off her. Very powerful animal pound for pound compared to a human or an other animal of similar size. Can open a car like a can opener.

NeilD wrote:
"I always thought hippos wore tutu's and frolicked in the river, just like they do in Fantasia, but it turns out that they're one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. I saw a group (gaggle, gang) of them up close on the Chobe River in Botswana and realized that they're huge, have very sharp teeth and could over-turn a boat and kill everyone in it if it felt threatened. One had done just that a few weeks prior to my visit."
According to an associate, who guarded the NGO water well crews,---Hippos often go ashore to "forage".......destroying crops and villages (and residents). They have been known to attack and destroy vehicles

I feel sorry for the bear. Who needs a nut invading your home?

I never blame Disney for this sort of crap but then again I don't have to read that "Professional driver on a closed course" or "Do't try this at home" either. If people are too stupid then they deserve whatever they bring upon themselves. I just pity the animal that is put down because of some idiot.

I can imagine the first European settler or even native that came across a buffalo for the first time. Lesson was learned fast, if not by the early curious, then by their survivors.

Bill O'Reilly actually showed video footage of the woman being rescued. I'm no expert, but I'd agree with those above who suggest the bears were just playing. There were two or three of them right there in the water next to her, while she was trying to haul herself up the rope. If they wanted to take her out, they easily could have.

In the O'Reilly coverage, it was implied her jumping into the pool was a suicide attempt due to the recent loss of her teaching job. I guess she had second thoughts.

Moron.

Amazing how a number of posters used this as an excuse to attack liberals and environmentalists. My guess is that any news story would set them off in that direction...just about anything would do. These are monomaniacs.

And to the poster who said he "could not care less," as opposed to legions who say they "could care less" when they really mean they "couldn't care less:" THANKS!

My sympathies are for the bears.

This woman is fairly obviously mentally ill--or maybe just incredibly stupid. But what in the world does her mauling have to do with liberalism? If I wanted to, I could construct an anti-capitalist argument based on this incident (not that I'm anti-capitalist in the least)--but that would be STUPID, and would only prove my (non-existent, in this case) bias. A PETA-style argument about the cruelty of zoos seems as easy to construct here as an anti-Gore one. (Personally, I like zoos and eating meat, but I don't dismiss the argument that there are associated problems and CONSEQUENCES. Hello, consequences?)

If any of you call yourselves Christian or otherwise religious, you should be especially ashamed. This is a horrifying and sad incident. I don't blame the bear, or the zoo, or anyone other than the woman herself. But why take such obvious GLEE in the story? Please take a moment to ask yourself about the morality of such a reaction.

Y'all are pretty heartless 5:28AM -
The point is that wildlife is dangerous. People used to know this. Now, thanks to civilization-hating environmentalists and spoilt twits who think the world was designed to be a harmless playground for them and Disney (with it's stupid happy endings and singing lions and adenoidal voice-work and ruining of perfectly good malevolent fairy-tales etc.) -
... where was I? Yes; these all leads to people thinking they should make friends with things that want to eat or otherwise dismember them - Islamofascists, for example. Like everything else, this is the fault of Liberalism.
For the record, I'm not in favour of feeding crazy Germans to polar bears. And my cat says I'm a pushover.

Sure. Nor should we clean up or care for the IDIOTS who wipe out on motorcycles (80% of motorcycle accidents cause injury or death and are 15 times more likely to be in accidents) or the snowmobilers or off-road idiots.It's the neo-con version of the nanny-state-I can be reckless-healthcare is FREE."

See, neo-cons are stupid too. Are all these individuals neo-cons? Was the lady who jumped into the polar enclusure a "liberal." She is if you say so.

>Posted by: a different bob at April 13, 2009 9:28 >People that stupid put their lives in mortal >danger just by getting up in the morning.

Bob read "Origion of the Species" by Charles Darwin. You will then understand.

Dear Charles, Y'all are pretty heartless and True Alberta Conservative.

My sympathies lie with the poor bastards who had to rescue that fool, and with the bears. Can you imagine what that much fat would do to their poor widdle tummies?

What this has to do with Liberalism? She thought it would be a good idea to go in the bear enclosure, and YOU think I'm a b@st@rd for writing her off. That's what it has to do with Liberalism. Her I don't care about, but you lot are getting on my nerves.

Go hug a prickle bush. Naked, if possible. Blame me when it hurts.

True Alberta Conservative -
Motorbikes are bloody dangerous. Most fun things are. I think ER doctors call them "organ-donors". But no real "Neo-Con" (If I understand what that even means) thinks that the socialist gravy-train should pick up the whole bill for bike-realted injuries.
Some of us believe in being reckless on our own dime.

"Donor cycles", Black Mamba.

Incidentally, TAC has his statistics wrong too. Bikes are involved in fewer accidents per 100,000 than cars. Like, a lot fewer. Its just that bike accidents cause more and worse injuries than car accidents for obvious reasons.

Interesting to note that the vast majority of car/bike accidents are caused by -car- drivers, not bike riders. Because bike riders know pain hurts, car drivers don't seem to.

These inexorable statistical relationships are the reason I parked my ragin' race bike in the 1980's and now only ride dirt bikes. On the street I drive a giant pick-up truck, because there are so many liberal morons like TAC who don't look before they turn left at an intersection.

My only regret at t-boning such a moron would be hitting the passenger side door. Liberals should all be issued right-hand-drive SmartCars, so I can spare the passenger while delivering the driver's Darwin Award. That would be a worthy social program.

On a happier note, if things in the health care biz continue as they are now, on glide path as it were, we should have private care and private insurance here in the Demented Dominion within another 5 years. Due to the utter bankruptcy of the Ontario and Quebec governments, not because Toronto and Montreal liberals finally grew a functioning brain cell.

If I have private health insurance can I ride without a helmet TAC? Pwetty pweeeeese?

"Donor cycles". Ah so.

My friend who teaches motorbiking insists it's very safe if you aren't an idiot. I don't know from bikes but I make the analogy with scuba diving, something I do know something about. No competent diver has ever gotten a serious case of the bends.
When I can afford to I will buy and learn to opperate a Cesna and a Harley, in that order. And when I wind up as a pancake, I'll pay for my own damn funeral.

You go Mamba! Grab onto that train ride we call life.

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