Horrible. If this bear weren’t thin and extremely hungry it would have likely never even gotten within camera range. What a tragic waste of energy for a knuckleheaded camera op. Gross.
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Probably not the coolest promo image for this story.
As it could be misinterpreted as showing the body of the filmmaker that is being devoured by the polar bear. I know, we’ve all been desensitized by Game of Thrones, but think of the children.
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That really is “getting more than you’ve bargained for”.
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At the beginning of the video I was thinking it would go in a totally different direction.
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As others said, what a bunch os bullshit for some crappy footage.
And another knuchleheaded white dude that just. cannot. shut. the. fuck. up.
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I don’t know, this video kept up the tension to the end.
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This is me in a video game where I come across a room that has a bunch of loot visible, but no way to get in.
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I believe the word is actually nooooop.
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How do you know this bear is thin? I can’t tell from the footage.
As I understand it, a black bear will avoid humans as a habit whereas the brownies are much more capricious and you can’t be sure what one will do. A brown bear may maul you as a matter of form or it may just ignore you. But a polar bear will always try to eat anything it thinks is edible, because that’s the environment it lives in.
I think guy is kind of an a-hole, but the idea that the bear only went after him out of some sort of unusual desperation doesn’t ring true to me.
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I’m sure a good jolt by the bear could drive an exposed screw right through his skull. And all of a sudden the screw loose in this guy’s head is no longer his biggest problem.
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Given the trouble the BBC goes to over these shows, I expect that they threw the bear some food after to refuel it. Having said that, I gave up on nature shows long ago; for the same reason I don’t watch torture porn like Hostel and Saw.
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Everything about this thread is bait.
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It would have been cool if, after trying claws and jaws, the bear had pulled out a socket set…only to get frustrated because the bear only has metric, and the BBC crew built the cage with SAE.
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The bear holds up its index claw, “Wait here, I’ll be right back.” Turning to the snowy wasteland, “Hey, Larry, can I borrow your adjustable spanner?!”
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One oddity: Whitworth bolts are measured by the diameter of the shank, not the distance between opposite faces of the bolt head (as is done in both SAE and metric), and fine-thread bolts have a different head size relative to the shank than coarse-thread bolts. So, on a British socket set, you’ll see each socket marked with both coarse- and fine-thread sizes.
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Seeing the footage of the bear was interesting, not so much the ugly mug of of the presenter who seemed to think he was the centre of attraction.
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He’s no David Attenborough. More like BBC Nature’s Geraldo. Ugh.
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It reminds me of roller coasters: they look and feel scary but are heavily over-engineered; large safety factors and all that. I wouldn’t mind a more hefty latch on the thing though. And by the way, don’t worry too much about the bear: I’m sure the BBC know exactly what they are doing to get a bear in the right place at the right time. Not as natural as it might appear.
