Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That says you’re supposed to scare them off first. Shooting them is a last resort. Not the first resort. In Iceland they made it the first resort by law. That’s the issue.

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        2 months ago

        Got it. As long as the children have a way of scaring off the hungry polar bear when it gets to the school playground, no worries.

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            2 months ago

            I see, so post multiple guards around any place children might be just in case the rare polar bear makes landfall on Iceland so it can get scared away instead of mauling children.

            Very reasonable.

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              2 months ago

              How do the Scandinavians do recess? Surely they do and they don’t have a magic no polar bear fence. These are solved problems.

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                  2 months ago

                  Obviously there’s more to it than that. The literal government website you linked requires non lethal means to be carried.

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                    2 months ago

                    Yes. When they’re not near a settled area. This should be fucking obvious.

                    Still waiting for you to provide evidence that there were no other houses around. Or are you going to repeat “summer home” again as if it’s the Unabomber’s shack in the woods when the weather is warm?