T_J you would end up wearing it as a jacket, because there wouldn't be enough people to "appreciate" it if it stayed in your house. You could wear it to Rockets games you'd have the mad Bling Bling.
I bet those guys BEAR-ly escaped! ....um....wait... I bet those guys couldn't BEAR it!... ....um...crud... how about... I bet those sailors were em-BEAR-assed! ...i give up, none of those are good
You guys are funny, but the Great Polar Bear War is no laughing matter. If they ever learn to shave the lower latitudes will be crawling with them.
The Polar bears gain the final piece to their "Triple B Axis of Evil"---Bears, Boars, and Badgers. Five hurt in badger rampage LONDON (Reuters) - An angry domesticated badger has savaged five people, leaving one man so seriously injured he needed skin grafts, and chased away pursuing police officers during a 48-hour rampage through a quiet town. One-year old Boris launched what experts described as unprecedented attacks after finding himself hungry, alone and frightened after being stolen or released from a wildlife visitor centre where he had been hand-reared and hand-fed. "I have been involved with badgers for 24 years and I have never heard of anything like this, nor has anyone I have spoken to," Mike Weaver, chairman of the Worcestershire Badger Society told Reuters on Tuesday. Weaver was brought in by police to catch Boris, who had bitten the five victims' arms and legs after getting loose near Evesham, Worcestershire. The officers themselves had been chased onto the bonnet of their car as they tried to round up Boris, who was later put down. Weaver said badgers were notoriously powerful animals and the incident showed the folly of trying to turn wild animals into pets.
Yeah, I think that this thread has been pretty relaxed. Not quite sure that bears attacking subs is a debate discussion.
Typical pro-war crap...Get a clue, idiot...try thinking before you post... ...you're wrong, and that's a fact, whether you like it or not... .......better?
Maybe this did belong in the D&D after all----i'm sure PETA will be getting involved shortly. A funny update: In a strange twist, to be filed under "It Could Only Happen in America", the USS Connecticut and its crew may end up with legal problems over the run-in with the bear. The US Marine Mammal Protection Act makes it illegal to cause disruption to any animal's normal marine behaviour. And this includes interrupting their feeding patterns. Because the sub didn't immediately return below the surface, its actions could be determined to be "disruptive". Bear snacks on US sub By Scott Jenkins May 29, 2003 IT'S not often a submariner would see a polar bear in his periscope, but that's exactly what happened recently in Prudehoe Bay off the northern coast of Alaska. During training exercises near the North Pole, the submarine USS Connecticut poked its sail and fin through the ice. An officer turned on the scope's camera and this bizarre image of a bear trying to eat the sub's rear fin was the result. The bear played with the fin for half an hour, thinking the giant object was food. After realising his find was inedible, he decided to do the natural bear thing and attack. But the assault lasted only a few minutes and the damage to the sub's fin was described as being minor. The structure wasn't designed as a polar bear snack, but life's like that sometimes. More than 20,000 polar bears live in Arctic waters. They normally reside on pack ice or ice floes and usually prey on seals. But this curious fellow couldn't believe his luck when the rudder made its appearance. US and Russian subs have been operating under the Arctic for more than half a century. In 1958, the USS Nautilus passed under the Pole for the first time, and in 1962 two nuclear subs surfaced there. All of this activity was designed to prove that ballistic missiles could be launched from the Pole. The subs have also measured the thickness of the Arctic crust using sonar technology, and the ever-decreasing thickness has caused major problems for the bear population. Some of them have been forced to come ashore earlier because of the Arctic's longer warm season. The USS Connecticut is one of newest US submarines and it's unlikely that encounters with polar bears were included in the operations manual. Submariners have seen polar bears in the past, but this is probably the first time the bear saw the sub first and mistook it for a huge chunk of bear food. In a strange twist, to be filed under "It Could Only Happen in America", the USS Connecticut and its crew may end up with legal problems over the run-in with the bear. The US Marine Mammal Protection Act makes it illegal to cause disruption to any animal's normal marine behaviour. And this includes interrupting their feeding patterns. Because the sub didn't immediately return below the surface, its actions could be determined to be "disruptive". The Daily Telegraph
