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26 Sep 06 - 04:30 PM (#1844016) Subject: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: beardedbruce 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. |
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26 Sep 06 - 04:40 PM (#1844020) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: frogprince 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. |
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26 Sep 06 - 04:46 PM (#1844025) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: beardedbruce 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. |
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26 Sep 06 - 04:52 PM (#1844028) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: frogprince "You put your right leg in, you put your right leg out.." |
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26 Sep 06 - 05:22 PM (#1844037) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: alanabit Do that with most bears and you would not get your leg back again... |
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26 Sep 06 - 06:21 PM (#1844074) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: Uncle_DaveO The difference is because a panda is not a bear. Dave Oesterreich |
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26 Sep 06 - 06:28 PM (#1844076) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: pdq Sorry to tell you this, Dave, but the panda is a bear. |
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26 Sep 06 - 07:00 PM (#1844092) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: bobad "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 |
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26 Sep 06 - 09:09 PM (#1844155) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: Charley Noble 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 |
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26 Sep 06 - 09:27 PM (#1844161) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: JohnInKansas Both stories relate to the unexpected appearance of "critters" where they are not expected don't they. John |
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26 Sep 06 - 10:42 PM (#1844176) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: SINSULL Shades of the Velveteen Rabbit. |
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27 Sep 06 - 04:44 PM (#1844434) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: gnu Just natural for a bear to go after fish, innit? |
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27 Sep 06 - 06:19 PM (#1844525) Subject: RE: BS: Killer Teddy bear! From: GUEST,IBO TEDDY BUNDY BEAR |
