BS: Killer Teddy bear!

Subject: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:30 PM

Teddy bear is a killer
POSTED: 7:34 a.m. EDT, September 26, 2006

MILFORD, New Hampshire (AP) -- A teddy bear has been implicated in 2,500 deaths -- trout deaths, that is.

State officials say a teddy bear that fell into a pool at a Fish and Game Department hatchery earlier this month clogged a drain. The clog blocked the flow of oxygen to the pool and suffocated the fish.

Hatcheries supervisor Robert Fawcett said the bear, dressed in yellow raincoat and hat, is believed to be the first stuffed toy to cause fatalities at the facility.

"We've had pipes get clogged, but it's usually with more naturally occurring things like a frog or even a dead muskrat," he said. "This one turned out to be a teddy bear and we don't know how it got there."

The deaths prompted Fawcett to release a written warning: "RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into the fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED."

He said it's not known who dropped the bear, but urged anyone whose bear ends up in a hatchery pool to find a worker to remove it. "They might save your teddy bear, and keep it from becoming a killer," he said.

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:40 PM

I looked at first to see if this was about a panda attack mentioned the other day; I saw just a glimpse of the coverage about that, so I don't know if it was fatal, or how severe the injury was.

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:46 PM

BEIJING, China (AP) -- 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, state media said Wednesday. Zhang Xinyan had drunk four pitchers of beer at a restaurant before "stumbling to the zoo" nearby and stopping off at the pen holding a sleeping 6-year-old male panda, Gu Gu, on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.

"He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand" and jumped over a waist-high railing down into the enclosure, the newspaper said. "When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it."

Startled, Gu Gu bit Zhang in the right leg, it said. Zhang, a 35-year-old migrant laborer from central Henan province, got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said.


Not a killer. though.

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:52 PM

"You put your right leg in, you put your right leg out.."

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: alanabit
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 05:22 PM

Do that with most bears and you would not get your leg back again...

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 06:21 PM

The difference is because a panda is not a bear.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: pdq
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 06:28 PM

Sorry to tell you this, Dave, but the panda is a bear.

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: bobad
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 07:00 PM

"The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a member of the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, and the family Ursidae, which includes most bears, the order Carnivora (website). The giant panda's closest relatives include the spectacled bear, sloth bear, and Asiatic black bear. The giant panda appears to have been one of the oldest members of the Ursidae family, emerging about 15-25 million years ago (Talbot and Shields, 1996)."

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/y/j/yjw101/taxonomy.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 09:09 PM

Shame, shame, shame for hijacking this thread before it gathered some momentum. You pandering Mudcatters should start your own thread!

Surely the killer Teddy Bear deserves more comment, and maybe even a commemorative song.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 09:27 PM

Both stories relate to the unexpected appearance of "critters" where they are not expected don't they.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 10:42 PM

Shades of the Velveteen Rabbit.

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: gnu
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:44 PM

Just natural for a bear to go after fish, innit?

Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear!
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 27 Sep 06 - 06:19 PM

TEDDY BUNDY BEAR