57 Replies to “How Many Deaths Is Walt Disney Responsible For Worldwide?”

  2. PETA should be outraged. To put food within such close proximity and then thwart their instinct to eat is cruelty to the extreme.

  4. Wonder if there is a sniper hiding in the trees just in case the glass breaks and the children suddenly go from being tourists to appetizers?

  5. The big surprise is that this limey article does not mention global warming or melting ice…
    …If only polar bears had scales instead of white fur and slithered like a snake all this nonsense would probably not exist…
    …Yep, mankind’s deadliest of predators…Don’t even think of rolling in the fetal position and play dead like you would with a black bear; a polar bears will be happy he did not have to run after you before his teeth starts piercing your skull open as your screaming your last breath…
    But they are so cute with the penguins in those Coke commercials…Aaaah!

  7. Disney has never done anything this reckless, that I know of. By conditioning people to believe it’s safe to be that close, it’s entirely likely that someone will try it without the glass. My only hope is it will be a European greenie, and not a child. The video of him being eaten would make a good safety training video.

  8. I don’t have enough faith in plexi-glass to do that, let alone to have allowed my own children.
    Pissing off large carnivores runs contrary to my survival instincts.

  9. “Both children and bears are actually very safely taking part in an amazing initiative by the owners of Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat, in Ontario, Canada, in a attempt to promote awareness about the amazing animals.”
    It’ll be a Torontonian greenie, coach. But yeah, the video will be instructive.

  11. “By conditioning people to believe it’s safe to be that close, it’s entirely likely that someone will try it without the glass.”
    Right. And skydiving companies, by conditioning people to believe that jumping from planes is safe, almost ensure that someone will try it without a parachute. What a horrible bunch of bastards.

  14. Anyone seen that documentary about the American idiot who went into the wild to be friends and ‘talk’ to the grizzlies?
    BEWARE, MOVIE SPOILER!:
    Anyway, at the end he does not come back…They found his video camera which recorded the last moments when he was screaming for his life and the sound of the bear crunching his bones…This audio was so chilling and disturbing, the guy who first listened to it had to seek help for his nerves…They never played it back in the movie either.
    Stick with peanuts and bread crumbs on the park bench, stupid!

  15. Alex
    I just knew someone was gonna toss out a skydiving metaphor and of course it’s you.
    Specious Alex, specious..and I bet you know why.

  16. Alex- Skyjumping might not encourage people to jump without parachutes, but it HAS encouraged lots of kids to jump off the barn roof with a tablecloth.
    If anyone has seen the video “Faces of Death”, there’s one segment on a guy who tries to hand a sandwich to a grizzly bear. What happens next kept me awake for a good many nights. That kind of thing happens all the time, and watching crap like this has to be an influence. Lots of people glance at this, and don’t bother to read the part about the glass divider. Luckily, most will never have the opportunity to swim in the Arctic Ocean.

  19. My first thought was ,”that HAS to be photoshopped”. Then I read the article and realized there was 10″ thick plexiglass between the kids and the bears.
    As I always say on these threads,the bears of British Columbia have all been Disney-fied,and it’s perfectly all right to approach them at any time. Feed them or play with the cute little cubs while Mother watches in amusement,it’s all safe in “Super,Natural” B.C.!
    The reason I carry a hunting rifle whenever I go hiking in bear country is due to the unfortunate fact that we didn’t have television in my home town when I was in my formative years,so I still carry that old fashioned paranoia about bears.
    So, come to S-N B.C., where the bears will love to have you over for dinner.

  20. “Specious Alex, specious..and I bet you know why.”
    Yeah – because you can’t think of an actual response, but are too proud of your ignorance to back down.

  21. Saw the stupidity at Delaronde last fall. As mama bear and three cubs worked their way through the campground a young couple and their two little girls approached with in 30 feet and the mama bear stopped her charge and roar….luckily, for the Disneyfied urbanites!!

  22. Alex
    Specious on many levels. I will outline a few examples and with all due respect to Kate then stand down or take this elsewhere.
    1. The German woman that jumped in with the Poley bears at a Munich zoo would seem to prove Kate’s premise in the tittle.
    2. In skydiving one is tempting a predictable force as in gravity. Maximum velocity is defined and the engineering of parachutes reflect this reality. Safety redundancy is both engineered and behaviorally trained.
    3. Parachutes are rarely personified.

  23. The suggestion that curling up and playing dead is what one should do with Black bears will result in being eaten, so never follow this kind of advice.
    As for the stupidity of people, it never ceases to amaze even without Disney. It is much worse with urbanites who are totally disconnected from nature, even as to how their food is produced. They seem to think that nature, oh sorry Mother Nature, is kind and caring in the human sense. The reality is that nature is raw, tooth and claw along with volcanos erupting, earthquakes et cetera.

  24. A few years ago while I was visiting my parents in Toronto we met a young couple at church who had recently moved to Toronto from Venezuela. My parents invited them over over lunch. They were in their early thirties, well educated (an architect & an engineer), and spoke excellent English. When I had mentioned that I was visiting from Manitoba, they went on to tell me how much they were hoping to visit Churchill some day so they could play with the polar bears. They were completely serious.

  25. If people want to teach children about nature, teach them that nature is often ugly and dangerous. It’s not fear; it’s a healthy respect. There is a divide between the species and people aren’t doing children any favours by ignoring it.

  26. Timmy Treadwell couldn’t be reached for comment
    -burton
    Hey, that is what I came to say!

  29. One of my most cherished memories of parenthood was at the Calgary zoo. My oldest daughter was about 3 or 4 at the time, and we we at one of the indoor displays, and it was very dark except for the lighting in the Plexiglas fronted cages.
    Anyways, my daughter walked-up to what I think she perceived as an empty cage and stood in front of what appeared to be a giant lump of brown fur. Her proximity to the static fur ball was similar to the pics of the kids with the bears.
    Anyways, this was not an inanimate lump of fur, but was in fact, to my daughters chagrin an extremely large gorilla(perhaps ape). The gorilla sprung to life, and I can only say I wish I had the camera ready for the look on my daughters face. Priceless!
    BTW, I think the polar bear public pool is neat.

  31. Only deranged leftwingers would think swimming with polar bears was totally safe. And they’re unfortunately not an endangered species. Yet. So let’s let nature take its course.

  32. Where’s Ontario, Canada?
    (The article mentions the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat which probably means this fun park’s in Cochrane, so why not say it?)
    The Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat has a “Nanook’s Snack Shack.” Hmmmm …
    http://www.polarbearhabitat.ca/

  37. Yeah, but if the polar bears just had laser beams on their heads they could still whack the kids!

  38. From the comments – “Hold on – my understanding is bears dont usually attack people unless they are disturbed or are hungry. I’m sure its the same for polar bears. they don’t attack unless they’re hungry or provoked, or both. I dont think the children would be at risk with minimal contact.
    – Joseph Felts, London, England, 08/2/2011 20:48”

    I’ll bet that this guy doesn’t have children,or ever will. What a maroon.
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354786/Children-swim-inches-monster-polar-bears.html#ixzz1DPMT9cIM

  39. I recall seeing a brochure for this place years ago and thinking “How totally awesome, i’d love to do that.” For cryin’ out loud people, this is no more dangerous than watching the swimming polar bears through the underwater windows at the Toronto Zoo. As for the woman who jumped into the polar bear enclosure in that zoo in Germany, she was certifiably insane. So give me a break.

  40. Lets see the liberal thinking on this: Monkey bars dangerous to Children. Potato chips a child’s mortal enemy but Polar bears are our “friends in fur” to be inclusive.
    You know Most Fairy tails are grim with bad endings. They usually consist of military knowledge combined with solutions.(Three pigs) What constitutes immoral behavior. Who are the “good” as opposed the the evil ones. The reason one must fight evil, & the dire consequences of not be wary with strangers or bargains with the “other”. They where teaching tools.
    Turned into cotton candy with sugary sweet endings. Portraying animals as more lovable than human characters has, in part lead to real deaths, but more disturbing is parental paranoiac mania overprotection ,since they have always been brought up with a Happy Ending themselves. People today can’t see a bad ending.
    Walt Disney severed the bonds of reality while distorting our pool of collective wisdom in these childewns tales into real fantasy with no soulful nutrition. Only Candy bars & rice Krispie puffs if not misdirection.
    Mindless beasts when hungry have no morals.

  41. I agree with Alex. God it’s creepy. A stopped clock etc.
    Jessica Watson, a 16 year old American girl, nearly succeeded in sailing around the globe solo. I admire her and her parents. Obviously that’s not an exact parallel, but total danger avoidance – shunning even the anodyne thrill of fake danger, like swimming with polar bears seperated by bulletproof glass – is too coddled for my taste. A better analogy would be cage diving with Great Whites, something I intend to try if I ever make it back to Oz.
    Of course, it’s the anthropomorphizing that’s dangerous; to whit: http://retardnews.com/2008/03/03/cuddly-polar-bear-knut-tries-to-eat-3-year-old-boy/

  43. I got to thinking about the way everyone piled onto poor Steve Irwin for holding his kid while approaching a crocodile. That was a completely different scenario. The child would learn from the dad’s body language that crocs are dangerous.
    It’s not all that different from farm kids learning not to mess with a bull, or a ram, or a boar. Anyone who ever lived on a farm, and had someone visit from the city, can tell stories of tricking those kids into something slightly dangerous.

  47. “I agree with Alex. God it’s creepy. A stopped clock etc.”
    If the automatic reaction of 99% of SDA readers/commenters wasn’t to deride and insult anyone who dares to disagree with the general narrative, you’d find we agree on more than we disagree. Unfortunately, the tribal instincts are strong amongst this bunch. Civilized discussion and honest curiosity seem to be a foreign concept.

  48. Syncho said: “2. In skydiving one is tempting a predictable force as in gravity. Maximum velocity is defined and the engineering of parachutes reflect this reality. Safety redundancy is both engineered and behaviorally trained.”
    Yeah. They also look you in the eye and warn you its frickin’ dangerous ahead of time, a lot. And they don’t -make- you jump out of the plane.
    Mamba, keep your protruding bits inside the cage eh? Two rules I live by, 1) if its sticking out it stays sticking out, and 2) no new holes.

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