Idiot.
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I blame the elephants. Clearly it was all for the 'gram and the elephants should have known and acted better.
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Looks like my old paper round that - no sweat :0)
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I swear this cyclist has a deathwish!! 
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Just watching made me dizzy
Could Sharknado become reality? 
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Without doubt, the best article you will read all week.
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Looks a bit like a game to the whales, to see who they can drench more
Absolute cruelty. When the guy who did this reincarnates into a wasp for his next life, he’ll maybe end up the same way.
Really don’t understand the mentality of this
A rare polar bear showed up on the shores of Iceland. Police shot it
Story by Brian Melley
A rare polar bear that was spotted outside a cottage in a remote village in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat, authorities said Friday.
The bear was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest of Iceland after police consulted the Environment Agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, Westfjords Police Chief Helgi Jensson told The Associated Press.
“It’s not something we like to do,” Jensson said. “In this case, as you can see in the picture, the bear was very close to a summer house. There was an old woman in there.”
The owner, who was alone, was frightened and locked herself upstairs as the bear rummaged through her garbage, Jensson said. She contacted her daughter in Reykjavik, the nation’s capital, by satellite link, and called for help.
“She stayed there,” Jensson said, adding that other summer residents in the area had gone home. “She knew the danger.”
Polar bears are not native to Iceland but occasionally come ashore after traveling on ice floes from Greenland, according to Anna Sveinsdóttir, director of scientific collections at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. Many icebergs have been spotted off the north coast in the last few weeks.
The bear shot on Thursday was the first one seen in the country since 2016. Sightings are relatively rare with only 600 recorded in Iceland since the ninth century.
While the bears are a protected species in Iceland and it’s forbidden to kill one at sea, they can be killed if they pose a threat to humans or livestock.
After two bears arrived in 2008, a debate over killing the threatened species led the environment minister to appoint a task force to study the issue, the institute said. The task force concluded that killing vagrant bears was the most appropriate response.
The group said the non-native species posed a threat to people and animals, and the cost of returning them to Greenland, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) away, was exorbitant. It also found there was a healthy bear population in east Greenland where any bear was likely to have come from.
The young bear, which weighed between 150 and 200 kilograms (300 to 400 pounds), will be taken to the institute to study. Scientists took samples from the bear Friday.
They will be checking for parasites and infections and evaluating its physical condition, such as the health of its organs and percentage of body fat, Sveinsdóttir said. The pelt and skull may be preserved for the institute’s collection.
A Coast Guard helicopter surveyed the area where the bear was found to look for others but didn’t find any, police said.
After the shot bear was taken away, the woman who reported it decided to stay longer in the village, Jensson said
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It might sound absolutely callous, but she decided to stay there, knowing the risks, and now a polar bear has to bear the consequences of her actions. Ridiculous.
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One of the things on my bucket list is to see aurora borealis in person - that’s just stunning.
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Photo from a friend in Huntsville, town quite distant from any major light pollution
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Come on, man, now you’re just showing off!
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