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Monday, December 22, 2008

Chow More News from the Animal Kingdom

Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:04 AM

And in Berlin...

A man jumped into the Berlin zoo enclosure of famed polar bear Knut on Monday, but officials were able to keep the animal away from the intruder by distracting him with a leg of beef, police said.

It was the polar bear that was distracted with the leg of beef, not the man—who claimed he did jumped into Knut's enclosure because he, the man, was lonely, and he thought Knut looked lonely too.

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People like that should just be fed to bears and other wildlife.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on December 22, 2008 at 11:09 AM

"I immediately regret this decision!"

Posted by Ron Burgundy on December 22, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Jesus. Might as well jump into a wood chipper. It'd be faster anyway.

"The wood chipper looks lonely!"

Posted by flamingbanjo on December 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM

I'm working on my empathy, but that's giving "i feel your pain (and lonlieness)" a little too much 110%. "Grizzly Man" best movie evah! or at least up there

Posted by grymklask on December 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM

The really should build a fence around the enclosures of man-eating zoo animals to prevent this kind of thing.

Hey, wait a minute ...

Posted by Mahtli69 on December 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM

Germans are both lonely AND delicious!

Posted by Emil Sarcasian on December 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM

It's like the Madagascar penguins Christmas Caper where the Private Penguin thinks the polar bear looks lonely and decides to go out and buy him something for Christmas but almost gets eaten by a psycho poodle instead.
But the Berlin jumper must not know much about reality I'm guessing.

Posted by fosterParentofAPenguin on December 22, 2008 at 12:11 PM

You know another animal that gets awfully lonely?

Great White Sharks.

Posted by Jim on December 22, 2008 at 5:28 PM