Tourists. Bloody tourists. Literally.
He said it's dangerous to approach a bear, with or without a camera phone for protection.
Well, yes.
Didja hear the one about the tourist who saw a bear by the side of the road, gave his kid a piece of bread with honey on it, and told him to feed it to the bear so Daddy could take a picture? I guess the poor kid did eventually learn to write left-handed, but the bigger handicap in this case is his gene pool.
A new report of tourist idiocy; in this case, a bear walked into a grocery store in Peace River, Alberta, made itself at home in the pastry case, and began sampling the goodies. No report on its opinion of the bear claws, but it did appear to favour the strawberry mousse, and who among us cannot say the same, eh?
Because the place was filled with not only Albertans but Peace Rivierans, the bear was unmolested and peace did indeed reign. Until.
"When (the bear) was sitting in the bakery case, this guy came up with a camera phone and he was sticking it right in his face," Allen said.
"The bear … didn't like that much."
The man received a "superficial wound" to his hand when the bear bit him, said Lyle Fullerton, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife service in Peace River. He said it's dangerous to approach a bear, with or without a camera phone for protection.
Since it injured a person, the bear will have to be killed when it's caught, Fullerton said.
What about the tourist, is what I want to know.
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Can we hire some of these bears to reduce the numbers of dumb tourists (is that tautology?) over here?
There have been no reported fatalities by incidents with Trafalgar Square pigeons for a number of years, although an Hungarian visitor to Denbighshire was savaged by a hedgehog.
It’s not a tautology, it’s just repetitious. I have often thought that the people who are tourists are in fact travelling because they are so stupid and obnoxious that they have actually been thrown out of their home countries, and are sort of refugees in Sta-Prest chino shorts and Hard Rock tees.
Vicus, I asked, but the bears won’t go to England. They said, “it’s full of damn foreigners,” which your words also confirm. Just send them over here one at a time.
There’s a shirt that sells very well to locals. It has a bear picture and the legend “Send more tourists. The last ones were delicious.”