From Fun Reports, but not particularly fun for those involved:
There is nothing funny about work in Arctic. And a group of Russians at an Arctic weather station felt it on their own back. They spent two nerve-wracking days hiding in an attic while waiting for permission from Moscow to shoot a hungry polar bear rampaging through their house.
The meteorologists and two gamekeepers were among the latest in Russia's far north-eastern Chukotka region to encounter polar bears stranded by melting ice while following their winter migration routes across the Arctic.
The hungry bear broke into the weather station, tore apart two dogs and went in to find food in the house," the Izvestia daily reported Thursday. The inhabitants "hid in the attic, where they sat two days. They waited until they got permission to shoot the animal, which was given by the environmental ministry in Moscow."
The newspaper reported that about 170 polar bears, which are a protected species, have been stranded along Russia's Arctic shore during
unseasonally warm temperatures.
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This is what many of our politicians here in the US seem to think, as well as many clueless people. OK, let's pump TONS of toxic fumes from TONS of factories into the air, let's have TONS of people using cars as well ... it won't do a thing to the enviroment, no way .. *rolls eyes*