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submitted 21 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Police have shot and killed a polar bear that came ashore in northwestern Iceland, the first sighting of a polar bear there since 2016. It might have hitched a ride from Greenland on a floating iceberg.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago

Presumably that's the responsibility of adults.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I see, so post multiple guards around any place children might be just in case the rare polar bear makes landfall on Iceland so it can get scared away instead of mauling children.

Very reasonable.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago

How do the Scandinavians do recess? Surely they do and they don't have a magic no polar bear fence. These are solved problems.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Yes. They solve it by shooting the polar bears.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Obviously there's more to it than that. The literal government website you linked requires non lethal means to be carried.

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