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Polar bear swims 300km, police shoot it
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by sweet east pearl | June 4, 2008 at 04:11 pm
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GRAPHIC footage of the first polar bear seen in Iceland in 20 years being shot dead by police has been posted on the internet.
The bear, an adult male weighing around 250kg, was presumed to have swum some 300km from Greenland or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice to Skagafjordur in northern Iceland.
It was planned to sedate the animal and move it back to Greenland but the police decided it was safest to kill the bear immediately.
"There was fog up in the hills and we took the decision to kill the bear before it could disappear into the fog”, said police spokesman Petur Bjornsson
see the video: http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2008/06/03/einmana_og_villtur_hvitabjorn/
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at 16:39 on June 4th, 2008
It was very pethatic.... The bear shouldn't have been killed. It could be captured alive with drugs shoot.
at 16:49 on June 4th, 2008
This is so sad - I can't believe the only solution was to shoot it. Aren't they endangered enough already!?
at 04:20 on June 6th, 2008
The only solution was to shoot it. We don't have enough drugs here to
capture him and they are all over the country the drugs we have. Th
police was loosing the bear into a heavy fog and anyone that looks at a
picture in a computer doesn't realize the size and power of this bear,
it can run in a speed of about 60 km/h and it is huge. We are not
very use to having bears here so we didn't have a plan or people to
capture him alive. The last time a bear came here was in 1974...
at 09:42 on June 11th, 2008
Flugukarlinn!! Please get your facts straight! Doctors had the drugs, polar bears can run to about 40km/h for about 10-20 seconds, and the last bear Iceland saw was in 1993, and 1988 before that! So please dont talk bullshit