That’s What I Call Hockey!
This story is a bit old, and I don’t know how I missed it. But a bear, trained to skate and play hockey during half-time shows, mauled both its trainers. Cops had to show up and kill the hockey playing bear. What, no 5 minutes in the pentalty box?
From the BBC here:
An ice-skating bear with a touring Russian circus has killed a circus manager and seriously injured a trainer in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.
The bear turned on the manager, 25-year-old Dmitry Potapov, dragging him across the ice and leaving him with fatal injuries during a rehearsal. The bear, who had skates on at the time, severely mauled another circus worker who tried to rescue the manager.
Russian circus workers dragged the two men away from the bear and closed the arena’s exits until the police arrived. Kyrgyz police shot and killed the bear when they arrived on the scene. It is not clear what caused the attack.
Here, for your viewing pleasure is a bear playing hockey. Now imagine the guys in stipes mauled and dead, and that’s pretty much what happened. How much are those tickets?
Good for the bear! I wish he’d killed ’em both. I’m no animal rights nut but, come on! When humans put wild animals in situations like this or the stupid circus…these animals are bound to flip out at some point and when they do…I delight in reading about it. I’m looking forward with breathless anticipation, to the next “Crazed elephant tramples clowns at Ringling Bro’s show” story. What do we think wild animals are going to do?