Reply #22: This was posted on another thread yesterday. The reason(s) for killing that poor bear are different.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3391479



Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jun-05-08 02:46 PM
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Iceland police kill polar bill, for fun apparently, after it swam 200 miles in search of land

From AmericaBlog
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/iceland-police-kill-polar-bill-for-fun.html

This is a story about global warming - polar bears literally can't find ice to rest on anymore - and about human cruelty. They didn't have to shoot the starving, exhausted bear. They could have easily sent for tranquilizers. They shot the endangered species anyway, apparently for fun, and then posed with the dead bear for glamor shots.



More details from towleroad site:

A Polar Bear that swam 200 miles from either Greenland or a "distant chunk of Arctic ice" finally reached land in Iceland, where it was shot by a group of police, They said they were afraid it posed a threat to humans but couldn't wait 24 hours for a "correct tranquilizer" to be flown in.

Actually: "Sveinbjarnardottir's account was disputed by the chief vet in the town of Blönduó, Egill Steingrímsson, who said he had the drugs necessary to immobilise the bear in the boot of his car. 'If the narcotics gun would have been sent by plane, it would have arrived within an hour,' he said. 'They could keep tabs on the bear for that long.'"

And then the pigs posed smugly behind it like some kind of trophy — a starving, exhausted, (not to mention endangered) animal whose life had just ended

http://www.towleroad.com/2008/06/iceland-police.html



And for those brave souls who have strong stomachs, the link at towleroad has video.