Source: A 23-year-old man was taken into custody this week after he was filmed trying to drown an elderly bear at a newly reopened zoo. The disturbing incident reportedly took place at the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, just a day after the country lifted its coronavirus lockdown.
The now-viral footage, shared by The Sun, shows an allegedly intoxicated man standing in the bear exhibit before the large animal charges at him. He then jumps into the moat in an effort to get away, but the bear follows him into the water moments later and a tussle ensues. The man is then seen pushing the bear’s head under water and using his weight to keep the animal down. After a minute of struggling, the bear retreats and swims away, allowing the man to jump out of the water and make a run for it.
Zoo spokesperson Ann Karczewska told The Sun the man was fortunate the bear, named Sabina, was the only animal in the enclosure at the time of his stunt.
“Although in good shape for her age, [Sabina] is not such an efficient bear,” Karczewska said. “Sabina, an old bear who was attacked by an adult man, physically came out of this event unscathed, but she is very stressed. She used to belong to a circus and is accustomed to the presence of people, but she absolutely did not expect a human attack. After the event, she sat in the water growling nervously until her carers came to look after her.”
Another day, another dumbass in this classic “man bites dog story”. If there were ever a place where a man attacking and trying to drown an elderly bear would happen I’d say a former eastern bloc nation like Poland seems about right.
Let’s get right into the analysis. We’ll call this still unnamed 23 year old pitiful excuse for a man “Aleksander”, or Aleks for short. Apparently things are not going great for Aleks. Dude is drunk and alone at midday wandering around a zoo. None of those things are great on their own, but combine them and you have a recipe for a bear wrasslin’ cluster f.
I feel like the zoo and Aleks both contributed to this foolishness. Hey Polish animal jailers zookeepers, how about putting up some fencing to keep dumbasses like Aleks away from the animals? They already have it hard enough considering you ripped them from their natural habitat, stuffed them into a concrete habitrail surrounded by a dirty brown moat, and charged people money to come gawk at their suffering. And hey drunk losers like Aleks, can we at least agree that going forward we’ll keep elderly animals out of these situations and only go after those that have a fighting chance? I mean, I assume the whole point of wrestling a bear is to gloat about it later to your friends, right? I know what you were thinking. You were trying to channel the former Soviet Unions’s bad boy Vladimir Putin by wrestling a bear so you could proudly tell your buddies, “Damn it feels good to be a gangster“, but you done messed up! Now that the whole world knows you wrestled the bruin equivalent of a wheelchair bound 90 year old grandmother suffering from dementia (and it was a stalemate) any clout you hoped to gain has evaporated. At least take on a bear like Blowey who can fight back.
I’m just glad Harambe wasn’t alive to witness this brutal attack. Speaking of Harambe, you know what to do. Pull your motherfuckin’ dicks out…