barbaric canadians

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
That was exactly my point if you read right.

Spec.

Aha.

The problem is they do attack humans, not that we're their primary targets.

[Asher]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I thought you where from California.

1983-1993: Calgary
1994-1997: California
1997-2004: Calgary
May 2004 - September 2005: Toronto
September 2005 - ? : Calgary

[Spec]

Originally posted by Asher

Aha.

The problem is they do attack humans, not that we're their primary targets.

I know they do. I just dont agree with the "ACTIVELY HUNT HUMANS" part, which is bs.


Spec.

[Wezil]

Leaving Toronto Asher? Good for you.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Wezil
Leaving Toronto Asher? Good for you.

I'm driving from Toronto to Calgary at the end of August. I'm only here on my 16-month internship, then I go back for my last year of school.

[Wezil]

will you return when finished or stay out west? Is the tech industry strong enough in Alberta?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Wezil
will you return when finished or stay out west? Is the tech industry strong enough in Alberta?

Maybe, might end up in New York or Austin or Silicon Valley, or even Washington State...

I'm not too picky.

[The Mad Monk]

Spec, YOU said they only attack if we get too near their cubs.

Obviously, we are not their primary food supply, there's not enough of us in the arctic, and we are harder to get. However, it's clear that they WILL hunt , kill, and eat us as the opportunity arises.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Spec, YOU said they only attack if we get too near their cubs.

Obviously, we are not their primary food supply, there's not enough of us in the arctic, and we are harder to get. However, it's clear that they WILL hunt , kill, and eat us as the opportunity arises.

Not as the opportunity arises, but as a last resort, or in self defense - which is what Spec was arguing, I believe.

[The Mad Monk]

You mean like this?

Polar Bear Mauls Man at Arctic Coastal Radar Site
December 1, 1993

A polar bear which had been prowling around an Arctic coast military radar facility crashed through a window of the facility, mauled a worker there, and was killed in the facility library last night. The severely injured man, a nonmilitary construction worker identified as Donald L. Chaffin, was flown to the ARCO Kuparuk medical facility, and later to an Anchorage hospital where he was in intensive care. The incident was reported to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), which has jurisdiction over polar bears, late last night.

The attack occurred at the U.S. Air Force Defense Early Warning (DEW Line) site at Oliktok Point, approximately 30 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. The site was established in the early 1950's and was presently undergoing construction.

According to reports to Service officials, the adult polar bear, approximately eight feet tall, approached the facility living quarters and peered into a ground floor window. Workers saw the bear looking in and swatted the window with a magazine to frighten it away. It returned a short time later, and they swatted the window again. After a third return and window swat, the bear came crashing through the glass and attacked the men inside. It made its way into the facility library before it was shot and killed by fellow worker Alexander Polakoff.

According to Service polar bear biologist Scott Schliebe, that bear and two or three others seen in the Oliktok Point area in recent weeks were probably attracted by the whale meat stored there by Eskimo whalers, who have hunted whales, seals, and polar bears in the Arctic Alaska for 4,000 years. The bear killed in the incident will be flown to Barrow, Alaska. There biologists will perform a necropsy of the bear in an attempt to determine whether it was undernourished, or other factors which may have affected its behavior.

The polar bear attack was the first reported to the Service since December, 1990, when a polar bear attacked and killed a man in Point Lay, Alaska. Under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Service has trust and conservation responsibility for polar bears (Ursus maritimus, "sea bear"), which are not considered an endangered species. Service biologists estimate between 3,500 to 5,000 polar bears occupy U.S. territory around Alaska.

http://www.lswilson.ca/pow2.htm

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
You mean like this?

Yes.

According to Service polar bear biologist Scott Schliebe, that bear and two or three others seen in the Oliktok Point area in recent weeks were probably attracted by the whale meat stored there by Eskimo whalers, who have hunted whales, seals, and polar bears in the Arctic Alaska for 4,000 years. The bear killed in the incident will be flown to Barrow, Alaska. There biologists will perform a necropsy of the bear in an attempt to determine whether it was undernourished, or other factors which may have affected its behavior.

It was looking for whale meat, not human meat.

The polar bear attack was the first reported to the Service since December, 1990, when a polar bear attacked and killed a man in Point Lay, Alaska. Under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Service has trust and conservation responsibility for polar bears (Ursus maritimus, "sea bear"), which are not considered an endangered species. Service biologists estimate between 3,500 to 5,000 polar bears occupy U.S. territory around Alaska.

The first attack in a decade and a half, and they are actively hunting humans. Right.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by General Ludd


Maybe you should read my posts again.

Pffft.

Actually, it's just having a bit of fun, sweetheart. Don't get your panties in a twist.

[Asher]

Originally posted by General Ludd
The first attack in a decade and a half, and they are actively hunting humans. Right.

Less than 3 years actually with a bear population of 5,000 (most of which are not near humans, so the number of polar bears near civilization are substantially less), look at the article date.

[The Mad Monk]

Decade and a half? That report was from 1993.

[KrazyHorse]

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