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Woman bitten by polar bear after jumping into enclosure

AP

Friday, 10 April 2009

Knut, the world's most famous polar bear, is kept at Berlin Zoo, but it was one of the older bears who attacked the woman

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Knut, the world's most famous polar bear, is kept at Berlin Zoo, but it was one of the older bears who attacked the woman

Police say a woman jumped into a polar bear enclosure at Berlin Zoo and was bitten several times on her arms and legs.

The woman was bitten Friday by one of the four older polar bears in the enclosure and not by the famous Knut, who took Germany by storm as a cub after he was hand-raised by a keeper.

Heiner Kloes, a zoo spokesman, said keepers pushed the bear away and pulled the woman out from the enclosure, which is surrounded by a fence, a line of prickly hedges and a wall.

The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment. Her condition was not immediately known. Police did not say why she jumped in with the bear.

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[info]nstpaulmn wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 02:57 am (UTC)
What was this women thinking. I don't feel bad at all for her. What a nut! Thats like putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger not knowing if its loaded or not.
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[info]kw9751 wrote:
Sunday, 12 April 2009 at 09:06 am (UTC)
Should have left her in there and save on the food bill for the day.
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[info]trinitycris wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 06:57 am (UTC)
The woman jumped in the enclosure, because she lost her 1 Euro job, and she lived from social help, that is about 500 Euros, which unfortunately was not enough to feed her daugther. She was desperate and she did not know what to do. It was in her wiev the only possibility to show the world what is she going through. I hope, somtthing like that we'll never happen to you :-(
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ohh people people why are you so bad
[info]trinitycris wrote:
Monday, 13 April 2009 at 06:55 am (UTC)
The woman jumped in the enclosure, because she lost her 1 Euro job, and she lived from social help, that is about 500 Euros, which unfortunately was not enough to feed her daugther. She was desperate and she did not know what to do. It was in her wiev the only possibility to show the world what is she going through. I hope, somtthing like that we'll never happen to you :-(
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