Polar Bears

[Captain Gordon Whittaker]

Teenageer killed by Polar Bear.

When will these stupid people ever learn that sleeping in Polar Bear territory is sheer madness? They are not the cuddly creatures to be coo'd over, but voracious predators who need slightly more than a malfunctioning tripwire system and a fragile tent to protect trusting kids, with zero knowledge of wild life. They did not even bother to appoint a night watchman, which every Merchant ship had. Gross negligence and lack of awareness, in my opinion. If you are going to feed the bears, at least let it be the Teachers' tent that is unprotected!

[John Pruden]

who thinks up these trips? would you send your kids on one.john

[Graham Evans]

Send the ex- P... Pot walloper, former "deputy Prime Minister. " on one of these trips he wil soonl be eaten, unless he has managed to hide away or diguise himself as a yokohama fender!

[happy daze john in oz]

Why did they kill the bear? He was in his own territory doing what Polar Bears do, when will man learn to live with the animals, not kill them?

[Gulliver]

It's very tragic.of course it is.
I read this morning they removed some of it's teeth from the skull of one of the survivors.

I think the problem today,the kids and their teachers always want to be interactive with their leisure activities- feel a polar bear's breath on your face,sleep overnight in a snakepit,walk on the wing of an aeroplane...you get the picture. It's got to be the ultimate.Then sadly when something goes wrong,they've got to blame someone or something.

My trips in the sixties were to Chester Zoo-where I was mauled by school sex siren Sonia Chognaki(pronounced HOY-NAT-SKI) behind the monkey cage,and Hadrians Wall,where I broke off a bit of stone from 122 AD, and hid it in my backpack.

Living with polar bears?...never,not even in my wildest dreams.
And we didn't have Elf and Safety back then....but we and our teachers had a lot of commonsense as well.

Gulliver

[Captain Kong]

I cannot critisize too much, I was chased by a Bull Elephant Seal two years ago in the Antarctic.
These guys weigh up to five tons, stand at seven feet tall and can run faster than a man but for only short periods, fortunately.
I got too close to his harem to get some photos of him and his women. the stench was bloody awful. I would not like to wake up in a morning and find him sat on my face.
He gave out a roar and charged, I legged it and managed to climb a pile of ice covered rocks and fell head first down a crevass and broke both collar bones, clavicles, and tore the clavicular ligaments out of my shoulder. The expedition leader and a couple of other guys pulled me out. Fortunately the Bull had gone back to his harem. I went to hospital when I got home 35 days later and had an operation to sew it together again.
I signed myself out of hospital because of the diabollical treatment by the Nurses and waliking home, I live close by, I got hit by a car and twenty minutes later I was back in the same ward as these evil nurses and having another operation on my leg.
Cie la vie.
All part of lifes little adventures.
Cheers
Brian.

PS . I wish I had been savaged by Sonia Chognaki instead. Lucky man.

[Albert Bishop]

Well, we now know who pinched that bit of our wall don't we. Sonias phone number, or I shop you. Albi

[Captain Kong]

Yeah, me too Albi.
come on give it to us.

[Captain Gordon Whittaker]

Were you, perchance copying the antics of the cage inhabitants? Hormones out of control? Our school "Sex Siren", in Wrexham, 1956, was also Polish, by the name of Danuta Laganowska.( By the way, masculine names end in "i", feminine in "a".)

[Gulliver]

Were you, perchance copying the antics of the cage inhabitants? Hormones out of control? Our school "Sex Siren", in Wrexham, 1956, was also Polish, by the name of Danuta Laganowska.( By the way, masculine names end in "i", feminine in "a".)

Fascinating,Gordon.Yes,and my story was in 1964 ,not long after you,when ,as you will know,the only Polish people in Britain were usually well-deserved asylum seekers of whom many had served in our forces in WW11.

Unlike the thousands upon thousands of Polish E.U. nationals now in our country-but on the bright side-one can always find a plumber-or a bus driver.


Oh,and Sonia's surname name was /is definitely CHOGNACKI, with an 'I' at the end(pron. HOY NAT SKEE)-as she went to great lengths to correct us,in between pubescent fumbles at the bottom of the playing fields at lunchtime.....
Perhaps Sonia was using 'daddy's' surname then?




All the Best
Gulliver