Man unhurt after sneaking into bear exhibit at zoo

[AsahinaKimi]

Source: CNN

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A man snuck into the grizzly bear exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo Saturday but was rescued immediately afterward without incident, authorities said.

A zoo visitor alerted the facility's staff about the 27-year-old man's presence inside the enclosure, said spokeswoman Gwendolyn Tornatore.

Staffers fired a warning shot to keep the two bears away from the man, before securing them inside their dens, Tornatore said in a statement.

The man, who was not identified, was conscious but unresponsive when he was rescued. He did not show any apparent signs of injury, Tornatore said.

It was not clear how the man got inside the enclosure, or what prompted him.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/27/zoo.intruder/index.html

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What is it with these people? Did he not know about the Tiger attack a few years ago? Was he thinking
this was a teddy bear?

[Treo]

1. Timothy Treadwell Rides again NT

[truthisfreedom]

2. He was "conscious but unresponsive when he was rescued"? Sounds like he was ill, drugged, drunk, or

insane.

[hankthecrank]

3. chance of good out come big goose egg

[shadowknows69]

4. Apparently the bear didn't like the taste of stupid.

[Bette Noir]

5. That's the same zoo where the tiger killed those kids a couple of years ago.

It sounds to me like the zoo has a serious security problem. They're not protecting the animals against the predations of stoopid young men.

[chatnoir]

6. As if the unnatural stone and concrete

enclosures at the SF Zoo weren't depressing enough, you get drunk and/or high yahoos climbing in to taunt.

Only been there once and swore never again. Polar bears kept in dingy concrete enclosures - no snow, no water, nothing but yellow fur and stone.

All those sad bears looked like they would have committed suicide if possible.

[earcandle]

7. We taped some radio banter in the zoo. Those animals looked drugged. The Rhino

was flat up against the wall on the floor and sprawled.  It
was absurd.