Bear bites off woman’s fingers
The other day, I came across this link from the local paper in Manitowoc, Wisconsin:
An Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo bit off all or parts of four fingers from the hand of a 47-year-old woman Friday after she went past barriers and was trying to feed the animal, a Manitowoc police captain said. “It appears that she suffered loss of some fingers,” specifically, all of her thumb and forefinger and parts of her middle and ring fingers, said Capt. Scott Luchterhand.
Stories like this pop up every once in a while– a few years ago, I think some very foolhardy zoo visitor in Europe was killed by a polar bear when he swam the moat and entered its enclosure. But I find this one particularly funny, because I lived for a couple years in Oshkosh, just down the road from Manitowoc. I can see this happening to any number of the intellectually challenged individuals I had to deal with 0n a daily basis (I am really hoping she was that woman from the testing center at UWO– yeah you know who you are). The schadenfreude is delicious and irresistable.
And the kicker?
In a similar incident, a wolf at the zoo chewed off the right arm of Jared Mraz of Manitowoc, then 2, on Dec. 20, 1994.
What the hell is wrong with people in Wisconsin?