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Red Corner: Shooting Plastered Bears
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Sometimes people travel to kill things. For those that enjoy doing so, one of the most attractive creatures to dispatch is a bear.
And so, when Juan Carlos, the King of Spain visited Russia recently, that is exactly what he wanted to do. The Russians, however, were concerned that the foreign dignitary might travel all the way to Russia and fail to score a kill. This would be an affront to his manhood and bad PR for Russia's bear shooting industry.
So, the Russians decided to help King Carlos in his quest. In the old days, the Soviets would have put a dissident in a bear suit and gave him a 2-minute head start. But this is the new and improved Russia. Local officials allegedly took a caged bear (perhaps from a zoo? This is unclear) and fed him a roofie: a load of honey spiked with copious amounts of vodka.
Mitrofan (yes, the bear even had a name) was then flushed from his cage and into the gun sights of King Carlos, who proudly dropped him with a single shot.
Aw yes, the thrill of the hunt! Doesn't it just make your heart pound with excitement?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Howard Oct 23rd 2006 2:57PM
Excitements with such bear cannot be!
K T Cat Oct 24th 2006 12:15PM
Ridiculous and sick, isn't it? I blogged about it, too.
John Blake Nov 16th 2006 1:37PM
That's not hunting! Where's the thrill in that? Poor Bear. Was too wasted to even to know what was going on. But I guess that's a good thing. At least he didn't
have to feel fear before dying. And I hope he was drunk enough to not feel the pain. As for the King of Spain, you want thrill? You should've just wrestled the bear.
May the best creature win.