Jun 8, 2012
Polar bear in a zoo throws a rock underwater, breaks enclosure’s glass
Recently a polar bear by the name of Vicks was playing with a rock in his pool at the Rotterdam Zoo. He threw it down, swam and got it, and then threw it again…into the window that people watch him through.
Fortunately, the glass is designed to spiderweb instead of shatter. Also, it’s 7 cm thick and there are several panes…
(via Ever So Strange, Hardware Zone)
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Fight the power!
“Kaput!”
“Das kaput.”
“De ruit is kapot gegaan” (the window has been broken) — it’s Dutch, not German, though very close :-)
“I have a good idea – let’s give a polar bear a giant rock to play with. What could possibly go wrong?”