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Surely to fuck if they could shoot it dead they could get a clear shot to tranquillise the poor bugger.
I suppose being shot dead was a better way to go than seeing food and water but having no way to consume it, but still.
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I suppose you can shoot an animal from anything up to two hundred yards away with a bullet, when you don't care about plate-sized exit wounds, but to get a tranquilizer dart to stick without harming the animal you need to be a lot closer.
Stories like this always remind me of that great "conservation" chestnut that's sure to upset any dinner party in deepest wildest Putney: would you put up with a bear/tiger/jaguar living in your back garden, or would you be straight on the phone to "the authorities" demanding they come and get rid of the fucking thing before it ate one of your kids?
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Rogin the Armchair Fan wrote:
Stories like this always remind me of that great "conservation" chestnut that's sure to upset any dinner party in deepest wildest Putney: would you put up with a bear/tiger/jaguar living in your back garden, or would you be straight on the phone to "the authorities" demanding they come and get rid of the fucking thing before it ate one of your kids?
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I am currently in real-life Pooh land. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winnie-the-Pooh was named after Winnipeg, a regimental mascot from the city's Fort Garry Horse militia regiment. Instead of taking the mascot over into the trenches in WWI, they left him in London and donated him to the Regent Park zoo, where he was spotted by Milne and his son.
It's shit out here. Rainy and not at all summer-like. But one hell of a story from just outside of town - man slaughtered and decapitated on Greyhound bus last night. My brother went out to cover it at about 11PM last night - I'm morbidly anticipating his debrief.
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Antonio Gramsci wrote:But one hell of a story from just outside of town - man slaughtered and decapitated on Greyhound bus last night. My brother went out to cover it at about 11PM last night - I'm morbidly anticipating his debrief."It was pretty traumatic," he said, adding that some passengers said they have been unable to sleep or eat since it happened.
A guy stabs another passenger 50-60 times and then hacks off his head and "guts him up" and it's described by a witness as "pretty traumatic"!
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More on that story.
It's created a bit of a kerfuffle in Minnesota.
Apparently, the cops on hand simply didn't have a tranq gun, so when they say they couldn't tranquilize it, I think they mean they couldn't get close enough to it to put a syringe in it because it would have run away into the woods.
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That's true, but not so much in this case. Frazee, Minnesota is fairly rural, but there were a lot of people around celebrating "Turkey Days." I don't know what that's all about but I assume it is some sort of typical American rural fesitval devoted to the area's most popular agricultural product. Minnesota and North Carolina are by far the largest producers of turkeys in the US (fact fans!).
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http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=19853453&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id =624602&rfi=8
Our house backs on to the park with the ball fields mentioned in this article. No bear was harmed in the posting of this link.
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It must have been when he was shut in the bus by himself, before the police arrived (about ten minutes.)
This is all over the news here obviously. Most memorable quote: “I tried to lay down at 4 o'clock this morning and I was up 10 minutes later, because every time I close my eyes I see this man in the window with some guy's head I just smoked a cigarette with an hour before,”
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My favourite quotes involved the maritimer referring to the deceased as "buddy".
The attacker was on the bus alone for about four hours after the stabbing as police tried to negotiate with him. During that period, as I understand it, he was seen eating pieces of the corpse. Latest update here
My brother is the G&M bureau chief for Winnipeg. Although he is heading back to Toronto to be the national Aboriginal beat reporter in about two weeks.
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