Wednesday, 17 February 2021

If Only There'd Been Some Warning...

Dramatic pictures captured the moment terrified spectators fled for their lives after a group of bears launched an unexpected attack on their rescuers while being released back into the wild in Iraq.
Six Syrian brown bears that were saved from captivity in people's homes were being freed during a wildlife conservation project in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq yesterday.
But moments after the cages were opened, the raging bears charged towards the crowd of onlookers and journalists as the ceremony descended into chaos.

Sounds like the typical sort of operation carried out by third world organisations. 

This was the third such release by the organisation over the past few years.
In 2018, reporters were attacked by three bears after they were released in the same mountain range, according to Mr Prevkani.
He said the bears had been panicked by the surroundings with a large group of people including media crews.

So on future occasions, you make sure you...have a large group of people around?! 

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7 comments:

  1. Ian J17 February 2021 at 12:33

    and still they don't realise why the locals used to shoot bears!

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  2. DAD17 February 2021 at 12:36

    Oh dear. Did not the bears know that they must 'social distance'?

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  3. Hector Drummond17 February 2021 at 13:14

    If you watch the footage fully, especially the Sun footage, the locals don't even seem that scared or bothered, most of them are grinning and laughing, some taking mobile phone footage. If the same thing had happened here people would be deeply traumatised.

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  4. Robert the Biker17 February 2021 at 14:54

    So...here's all these bears living in houses, warm, dry, fed and probably looked after to an extent. Some smug interfering twats decide to shove their noses in and lob the bears out in the middle of nowhere, no food, peeing with rain and no one to scratch that bit between the ears that you cant reach. World is astounded that bears are pissed off and try to eat do gooders.

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  5. Mudplugger17 February 2021 at 21:33

    The poor bears were just desperately trying to find some woods to crap in.

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  6. Sgt Albert Hall19 February 2021 at 07:34

    If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise.......

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  7. JuliaM21 February 2021 at 07:04

    "Oh dear. Did not the bears know that they must 'social distance'?"

    And none are wearing masks!

    "....the locals don't even seem that scared or bothered, most of them are grinning and laughing..."

    That Third World fatalism again!

    "If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise......."

    🤣

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