The Polar Bear Attack Email

Some people seem to have nothing better to do than unthinkingly forward emails that add nothing to the quest for improvement.

Case in point: The email, with graphic pictures, that starts out:


Polar Bear Attack in the High Arctic
This is from up in the Yukon, this chap is lucky to be alive. The guy survived the bear attack. The bear jumped on him while he was sleeping in his tent and he managed to get it off of him and shoot it
One tough camper!

As Snopes' Urban Legends Reference Pages points out, at least one of the pictures doesn't match the story.


That little technicality aside, my response to the email:


So the person was a hunter, not a mere "camper". Looks like it was almost a fair hunt, for once.

What was the human hunting for? Survival? Or fun?

I don't recall anything in the Bible, or any other religious work, saying that animals were put on this planet for the killing pleasure of humans.

Given what humans have done to this planet, vs. what bears have done, I'm cheering for the bears.

If there is justice, the bear's extended family will avenge his loss.

The recently deceased bear just saw an idiot who needed his head examined, and the bear just thought he'd help. Some gratitude...

TLC