From The Daily Mail:
A man and woman were killed in a bizarre motorway accident when an airborne 21stone black bear smashed through their windscreen and exited through the back window.
Their car was travelling east on Highway 148 just outside Quebec, Canada, at around 10.30pm on Monday night. A vehicle travelling in the opposite direction hit the bear, sending it flying into the air across the other lane.
It was then struck by the second car, killing the 25-year-old female driver and her friend Steven Leon, 40, who was sat in the back seat.
Sort of like bear ping-pong with fatalities.
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Good Lord!
Remember the Oz camel attack from way back ? http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2009/11/shock-and-awe.html
This'll teach 'em. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/farting_carbon_camels/ All in a sustainable, ecomentalist cause of course.
"Steven Leon, 40, who was sat in the back seat": eh? I understand why one might sit a four yeat old in a back seat, but why a forty year old? Couldn't he be allowed to sit down all by himself?
DP, who said that?
VFTS, ta, in the FT it said they would be sending in helipcopter gunships again, but they promised the animals would be killed "humanely". Yeah right. Machine gunning them humanely.
There was another good one on elephant attacks in today's DM.
D, maybe he thought he would be safer on the back seat in case a bear smashed through the windshield? That's that theory debunked.
I believe this sort of thing happens a bit in Upside Down Land, only with Kangaroos not bears . The Roo-bars on the front of your Ute do protect your vehicle if you hit one. However they merely elevate the expiring marsupial to windscreen height for oncoming cars.
It is only lack of planning on the Kangaroo's part and the fact that only six people live in Australia that there are not more fatalities.
Grizzly.
Unbearable.
Elephants:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13697179
Look on the bright side, the bear was both a) dead and b) flung out of the car. Good luck surviving that if it'd been alive and injured and had stayed IN the car...
The elephant story had some gems too: "One man, a 55-year-old security guard from the Bamboo Bazaar district, was trampled to death after he came out of his house to see what was going on."
SNORK!
"Officials ordered residents to stay indoors and urged them not to throw stones at the raging elephants for fear of provoking them further."
I seem to recall that was the reaction of these oxygen-thieves when a leopard strolled into the town (and was shot while it - completely understandably - mauled a stone-thrower). What the hell possesses them?
If Godzilla ever comes to Delhi, there's going to be trouble...
Once you seen two people killed by a flying bear ursine it all
*groan*
Why does it matter if the bear was black? Story seems a little racist to me.
TF, I think that "black bear" is the type of bear, (as opposed to "grizzly bear" or "brown bear") rather than the colour of the bear itself, so it's not actually racist.
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