UPDATE: Cutest Bear Cub On Earth Bit Some Students At Washington U And Gets To LIVE
UPDATE: Boo Boo gets to live. Fuck yeah.
I bring saddening news out of St. Louis via the ever-breaking news source, Twitter.
Washington University administrators brought a leashed bear cub to campus for students to interact with in order to uplift their spirits for final exams. The Bear is the Washington University mascot. This particular bear cub’s name is Boo Boo. As you can see above, Boo Boo is cute as shit. In my opinion, he’s the cutest bear cub on the planet.
Boo Boo got a little excited to be around the Wash U students and nipped some of them with his little bear cub teeth, because, you know, he’s a baby bear. Baby bears, by the way, naturally mature to be blood-thirsty killing machines in the wild. It’s what they do. They depend on hunting for survival. They’re bears.
Because it was unknown whether Boo Boo had rabies–something that seems unimaginable since he was chosen to interact with real human beings–the students who were bitten may have to see a physician to receive their rabies vaccinations.
Oh yeah, and they decided to kill poor Boo Boo.
Shame on @WUSTL for exploiting a bear for entertainment & leading to euthanization bc he bit students. Help @peta pic.twitter.com/ZK1hMZLheU
— Madeleine L Parker (@madeleineliesel) May 2, 2014
1. Wash. U. brings bear cub to campus for student entertainment.
2. Student gets bitten by said bear cub.
3. Bear cub is killed.
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— ANDY (@andykoh_) May 1, 2014
Aight Wash U is deeefinitely regretting that bear right now
— SFein (@SUN_burned) May 1, 2014
SMH @ wash u for bringing a bear cub to campus and now everyone who was "nipped" is at risk for rabies
— DEUCE (@anniepudvah) April 30, 2014
Apparently, an animal can’t be tested for rabies unless it is dead–something about having to cut its head off to test it. I’m sad for poor Boo Boo. Thoughts go out to Boo Boo’s bear family.
Man, someone really screwed this thing up.
Student that got bit deserves to be euthanized. Dumbass.
11 years ago at 9:56 pmYeah, they should put those students down.
11 years ago at 10:00 pm…shut up Dorn
11 years ago at 10:13 pmLuckily they won’t have to euthanize him.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-02/news/sns-rt-us-usa-missouri-bear-20140502_1_rabies-threat-bear-cub-missouri-college
11 years ago at 9:13 pmNoooo
11 years ago at 9:57 pmWhat in the literal fuck? I just shed a man tear for that cub…
11 years ago at 9:58 pmThis story is unbearable.
11 years ago at 9:58 pmSomething was done here
11 years ago at 11:13 pmBear puns for days.
11 years ago at 11:24 pmThat comment will never get old… Thank you for pointing that out to us.
11 years ago at 12:25 am
11 years ago at 2:17 amThey could have just gotten the $200 rabies shot instead
11 years ago at 9:59 pmThe moment that cub is killed, the terrorists win!
11 years ago at 10:00 pmHere’s what pisses me off: this bear was doing exactly what he’s meant to do. If you went up to a bear and asked him what he did for a living, assuming he could talk, there’s a 90% he’d say, “Oh. I maul the fuck out of shit for a living.” There’s a 10% chance he’d say, “I wear a really small hat and perform in a circus.” That’s pretty much all bears can do. This bear wasn’t wearing a small hat, so it’s pretty clear what he wanted to do when grew up. Idiots, man.
11 years ago at 10:00 pmAll he wanted was to get in a couple girl’s picnic baskets. RIP.
11 years ago at 10:00 pmI’ll allow the animal rights club to come out of the woodwork on this one.
11 years ago at 10:00 pmWas just going to say. Shitty incidents like this are the few times hippies are actually useful.
11 years ago at 12:50 pmEvery time Dorn posts a column at 10 pm, a baby cub gets murdered.
11 years ago at 10:03 pm