This movie is on DVD? Time to check eBay for The Adventures of Milo and Otis againSo I realize that I should be serving as a conduit for news that falls through the cracks of the so called MSM, but fuck it, I'm just going to link to a story on CNN's front page. It seems that over the weekend, some joker at a beer festival in Belgrade managed to get all tore up and fall into the bear pit at the zoo. The bears, as bears are wont to do, ate his ass.
Some observations:
Some observations:
- The verbatim response of Belgrade Zoo director Vuk Bojovic to the news: "There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage." Now, imagine if this happened at, say, the Bronx Zoo. What do you think the zoo director would say? Probably something along the lines of "This is a sad and tragic day for every member of the Bronx Zoo family. We will be reviewing the safety precautions at all of our enclosures for the protection of both the animals and our guests, and we strongly encourage other institutions to do likewise." Mr. Bojovic was like, "Fuck that guy. Also, he didn't fall in - he jumped." Also, note that in Belgrade they keep the bears in cages. Not habitats, or enclosures, or paddocks or whatever: cages.
- The bears are named Masha and Misha. Now, for those of you who aren't in the know, Misha the Bear was the official mascot of the 1980 summer Olympics, held in Moscow and boycotted by the United States. What a cute widdle commie bastard. One wonders if the directive went out from the Kremlin before the games that every bear held in captivity throughout the Eastern Bloc had to be named Misha or Masha (which I believe is the name's female equivalent). (Alright, I realize that Yugoslavia was non-aligned during the Cold War, but still, maybe they were throwing Brezhnev a bone or something.)
- Being a zoo animal in a former Communist nation really sucks. Not only are you stuck in an actual cage, but people are apparently throwing their cell phones at you. I kid you not: cell phones. Who throws their cell phone at a bear? Serbs, evidently.
