[barend]

Killer teddy bear behind deaths of 2,500 fish
Stuffed animal was dropped into trout pool, clogged the flow of oxygen

MILFORD, N.H. - A teddy bear has been implicated in 2,500 deaths. Of trout, that is. State officials say a teddy bear dropped into a pool at a Fish and Game Department hatchery earlier this month clogged a drain. The clog blocked the flow of oxygen to the pool and suffocated the fish.

Hatcheries supervisor Robert Fawcett said the bear — a Paddington Bear dressed in yellow raincoat and hat — is believed to be the first stuffed bear to cause fatalities at the facility.

"We've had pipes get clogged, but it's usually with more naturally occurring things like a frog or even a dead muskrat," he said. "This one turned out to be a teddy bear, and we don't know how it got there."

The deaths prompted Fawcett to release a written warning: "RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into the fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED."

He said it's not known who dropped the bear, but urged anyone whose bear ends up in a hatchery pool to find a worker to remove it. "They might save your teddy bear, and keep it from becoming a killer," he said.

"It's kind of a cute little teddy bear and people wouldn't think that a cute little teddy bear would be able to kill fish."


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Thanks to Zatoichi for this nugget-o-news

so the pecking order of ferocity now goes

3. grizzly bears
2. polar bears
1. teddy bears


We need a dorothy picture here please...

[Otal Nimrodi]

Indeed. Who else could draw killer teddies?

[Deepsycher]

I know a bear called Lennie but like this one he kills mice unintentionally.

Also do dolls count?

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 26 September 2006 - 08:06 PM

[Grinov]

Back in the forth grade I did a school report about the teddy bears picnic, I was the only one willing to say what those blessed bears in those "picnics", no one listened to me and about two years ago I heard the news that my fourth grade teacher committed "suicide" with a pink teddy bear ribbon.

[SimeSublime]

I know a bear called Lennie but like this one he kills mice unintentionally.

Of mice and men? That book was so boring. Waste of my time.

[Deepsycher]

I was forced to read it for an English course. Then I had to keep on changing my work to it endless amounts of times. The questions were not clear or I misunderstood. That is why I remember it.

"Curley got his fist stuck up the machine just as his wife got her head stuck up the machine."

[Spoon Poetic]

Am I the only one in the world that enjoyed that book? And I was so sad at the end... *sigh*

[Deepsycher]

Despite it being read for importance I enjoyed the beginning but not so much the end.
Like how the water snake was swimming at the beginning Mike had to be the Water Heron to Lennie at the end.

[Chyld]

It was a good book, but as with every book I've ever been forced to study, it suffered horribly from "being analysed by my former English teacher".

God damn her to hell.

[Deepsycher]

I found an interest from the beginning after my questions were asked. Then it took me a couple of hours to read it all but I remember it then for a long time. I was interested in the imagery of the story, good thing is that people had a choice of doing their own analysing.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 02 October 2006 - 07:06 AM

[Dorothy]

How in the name of all that is holy did this go on while I was gone...

Ok, well. Here.

"RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into the fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED."

I'm making this quote into a t-shirt. It's fantastic!

[mireaux7]

a teddy bear killer??.......



...oh ok,..you must have seen the teddy bear working undercover with these 2 cops.

[barend]

How in the name of all that is holy did this go on while I was gone...

Ok, well. Here.

ahhh.... that's better.

[Dorothy]

mireaux7: I hates the Teddy Ruxpin. He's always spooked me.