File under "Darwin at work." Washington University (in St Louis, Missouri) brought in a petting zoo to relieve student stress during exam week. So far so good.
Problem was Boo-Boo the bear cub, who managed to nip as in bite hard enough to break the skin eighteen people before anyone thought that maybe Boo-Boo wasn't the best choice for handling.
If you thought "rabies," you are not alone.
As the Worms and Germs blog put it:
You'd think someone would clue into there being an issue after, say, a few bites. Once it hit a dozen, I would have thought anyone with common sense would get concerned. But 18??? Did they even pull Boo Boo out of the petting zoo by then, or did he just get tired of biting people?
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Boo-Boo The Bear: Stress Relief Without Rabies
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(Score: 3, Funny) by AnonTechie on Sunday May 11 2014, @06:47AM
A committee needed to be appointed to review whether the bear was really dangerous and to confirm the conditions under which the bear bit his handlers. All this research takes time and effort. Test conditions need to be defined and double blind tests are required before publishing the story. Come on guys, 18 times is not that many !!
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday May 11 2014, @12:14PM
More realistically we'd have to suffer thru endless "check your non-rabies privilege" and "should have worn protection" lectures, with a side dose of a critique lecture of "looking at what she was wearing, she was asking for it". Finally a long, yet meaningless discussion of statistical analysis of racial and gender quotas, it'll be "OK" if an unusually large number of white men get rabies, but if it statistically skews higher for minority women then, and only then, will it be considered a tragedy. Death by rabies might be considered the least unpleasant alternative, looking at the above. The infected may actually be the lucky ones, given what we're likely to put the survivors thru.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday May 11 2014, @06:59AM
You'd think they'd consider a safer bear variety [bearnutscomic.com]. But this is what happens when you go with discount bears.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 11 2014, @07:05AM
Is this samzenpus?
(Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Sunday May 11 2014, @03:44PM
Only my stylist knows for sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 11 2014, @07:28AM
As a college student I know campuses are filled to the brim with drooling idiots. People concerned about the bear should definitely NOT contact PETA, which would happily have the bear put down to put it "out of it's misery of living amongst humans."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 11 2014, @06:12PM
PETA, which would happily have the bear put down
Actually, it sounds like you're describing the Department of Natural Resources SWAT team. [alternet.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by mendax on Sunday May 11 2014, @08:48AM
I learned this lesson about my evil black cat years ago. Simply put, to most people she can seem quite feral. She attacked a friend of mine recently by biting a finger and latching onto a forearm with her teeth and all four claws. But this psychotic nature is part of her charm.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday May 11 2014, @12:31PM
I always wondered what happened to her, I figured she decided to bless someone else with her 'charms.' You're treating her well I trust?
P.S. I did find sacrificing a child to her about every six months helped to keep her calmer. Glad to hear she found a new home......
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