Bear Bites Off Drunk's Hand

[GOPisEvil]

July 23, 2004
A man who had just woken up from a drunken stupor after falling asleep overnight in a zoo in Estonia tried to offer a polar bear a cookie - and had his hand bitten off.

His screams drew security personnel, who promptly called an ambulance which took the man off to hospital in the capital, Tallinn, the Baltic News Service reported.

The 31-year-old man had been passed out after consuming large amounts of alcohol with friends. He woke up early today, found the cookie in his pocket and offered it to the bear.

Tallinn Zoo manager Mati Kaal, who has worked more than 30 years at the zoo, said it was the 11th time he had heard of such accidents, although "this is the first hand. In other cases it's been the whole arm".

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/23/1090464828966.html?oneclick=true

[matcom]

1. DOH! I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!!

x(

[GOPisEvil]

2. I'm shocked to learn that alcohol was involved!

[JohnyCanuck]

5. On the other hand, I've NEVER heard

of peaople smoking up and poking their limbs into bear cages.

[Fenris]

3. "Awww. Who vants a coookie? Come on...don't be ARGGGGHH!"

[GOPisEvil]

4. Fucking ingrate bear!

[johnnie]

6. 11th time?

Is this an epidemic?

[yellowcanine]

7. Hand should have been easy to reattach - preserved in alcohol - or did the

bear eat it?

[bleedingheart]

8. The bear probably has gotten used to marinated hand based

on the article.

[XNASA]

9. Well then, he should consider himself lucky it wasn't his whole arm.

Guess he'll never play the banjo again.

[Blue-Jay]

"C'mere Bear! Zagnut!"

[mrboba1]

10. Yeah - that's what usually happens to me.

After I wake up drunk, I find a cookie in my pocket and give it to the largest land animal I can see...
:eyes:

[Bucky]

11. Ungrateful bear bites the hand that feeds him

Moral of this story: "Bears don't like cookies"