There are so many reasons to get naked (or, as we bloggers call it, "in dress uniform"). One is to avoid polar bear attacks.
Polar bears are dangerous, aggressive predators that view humans as food. That's why, in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, carrying a gun is not only allowed, but mandatory. It's why people in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada leave their car doors unlocked and have built a polar bear jail.
There's something else that you can do: strip. The New York Post reports:
“Polar bears are very curious,” Sarah Woodall, a tourism destination manager for Visit South Greenland told me during my first trip to the country in 2015. To that end, if you should come face-to-face with one, back away (slowly at first), while peeling off your clothes one item at a time. The bears are very curious so they should stop, sniff, and perhaps play with each item as they come across it, leaving you free to run somewhere across the Arctic buck naked.
Suddenly taking your clothes off can also shorten the line at store cashier lines or the DMV.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Anita Ritenour
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I duno, just seems like your making the meal easier to catch. And you'll freeze to death if you don't get to shelter soon. If I were a polar bear and I saw my meal getting naked ready to be eaten...
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Unfortunately, the article of clothing that gets soiled when coming face-to-face with a polar bear is the one that takes the longest to get to. It's also the one that will probably make the polar bear leave after sniffing it.
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Reminds me of the lizards that break off their tails to get away.
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I've used this technique very effectively to outrun confused park rangers as well.
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