Polar Bear Scare

The bomb squad responded to call about a suspicious package yesterday near the Columbia Heights Metro station in Washington, DC. Citizens had observed a polar bear rummaging in a trash can. They said he had been there for hours. The Metro station and the surrounding area were evacuated. Ambulances and fire trucks were on hand to respond.
Onlookers watched a bomb technician in a blast suit walk slowly toward the bear, then pounce and cut it open. He pulled out wads of newspaper until the big, white head flopped over.

The bear was a mannikin mannequin. Was it street art, a political statement, or both? Link

The DCist believes that the artist is Mark Jenkins. Link -via Arbroath

It was street art of course! And it conveyed a very alarming message, that polar bears are loosing their homes due to the melting of the arctic ice. Sad stuff really.
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I live in DC and that was in DC (you can see the Washington Examiner for the article on it as well). I actually find it quiet amusing that we are all so scared of the littlist things. A polar bear mannequin??? I wonder if the artisit or whomever put it there, did it just for that purpose. To make us realize that we over analyize and think everything is terrorist related....which actually the stuff we freak out about more often than not, is nothing at all.
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haha, this just goes to show then mentality of the people of the USA
"a bomb technician in a blast suit walk slowly toward the bear, then pounce and cut it open. "
That is so violent!
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