Well in all honesty, if a panda went on a rampage and destroyed downtown Toronto with its laser-beam eyes, all we in the West would say is “Cool! Is it up on YouTube yet?”

As it is, all we have to report is that a panda has eaten a small piece of an American. To which we say, “Cool! Is it up on YouTube yet?”

A panda cub bit off part of the thumb of an American visitor who was feeding the animal at a reserve in southwest China, state media reported Thursday.

The 50-year-old woman, identified only as Lisa, had registered in the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan province as a volunteer, according to the official Xinhua News Agency…

Last month, a drunken Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it.

That’ll teach those damn huggers a lesson!