Bro forced a little old lady to lock her doors and got himself shot.
You gotta love the AP headline.
Those mean police, shooting that absolute monster of a killing machine!
The bear was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest of Iceland after police consulted the Environment Agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, Westfjords Police Chief Helgi Jensson told The Associated Press.
'It's not something we like to do,' Jensson said. 'In this case, as you can see in the picture, the bear was very close to a summer house. There was an old woman in there.'
The owner, who was alone, was frightened and locked herself upstairs as the bear rummaged through her garbage, Jensson said. She contacted her daughter in Reykjavik, the nation's capital, by satellite link, and called for help.
Polar bears aren't native to Iceland, but they sometimes float there on the ice.
Ásthildur Gunnarsdóttir, the 83-year-old woman from Höfðaströnd (don't make me pronounce that), had just returned to her summer cabin and noticed the bear about 10 feet outside her window, sniffing her laundry.
After she called her daughter, who called the police, a boat and a helicopter was sent to her house.
Authorities didn't have the means to properly tranquilize and relocate the bear, however, so they put it down.
According to Þorvaldur Þór Björnsson (again, no idea how to say that), a taxidermist at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, the bear was an older cub that may have gotten separated from its mother.
'I've disconnected my phone at night because all kinds of people are calling, upset about the shooting of the animals,' Þorvaldur remarked, who is now focused on investigating the Höfðaströnd cub.
I know, I know, we all love polar bears. There's something about the murder machines that have captured our hearts.
And I get it. All those videos in the '90s with Al Gore crying over skinny polar bears trying to navigate the melting ice caps really did a number on us.
But don't fear: Even according to the uber-woke "Global Warming Policy Foundation," polar bears aren't at risk of disappearing. In fact, their numbers have tripled over the past 50 years to more than 32,000.
Consider just this study from Canada:
Since 2004 we have been told that polar bear numbers in Western Hudson Bay have been steadily declining, but a new study made public in 2023 reveals that this isn't actually true.
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A survey of Southern Hudson Bay polar bears in 2021 showed an astonishing 30% increase over five years, which adds another 223 bears to the global total.
A concurrent survey of Western Hudson Bay polar bears in 2021 showed that numbers had not declined since 2011, which also means they have not declined since 2004.
Arctic summer sea ice has been stable since 2007, the polar bears are thriving, and an 83-year-old women didn't get mauled.
Not a bad deal overall.
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