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Beer for Bears
2007 Darwin Award Nominee
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(19 August 2007, Serbia) It's well known that alcohol impairs judgement. It's well known that carnivorous wild animals and humans don't mix. What happens when we combine all three? One might expect men, beer, and bears to combine with lethal consequences. Such was the case for a 23-year old man who inadvertently fed himself to Masha and Misha at the Belgrade Zoo.

The Zoo director said of the incident,
"Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage."

The man's naked, mauled corpse was found inside the bear habitat, along with plenty of beer cans. His clothes were completely untouched, suggesting that he approached the bears bare-naked by choice. The bears, apparently fearing that his intentions were as dishonorable as they were ill-informed, meted out a summary justice.

Later, Masha and Misha "reacted angrily" when keepers tried to recover the man's corpse, but were eventually persuaded to give up their tasty prize. We await word on how many beers were bartered for the body.

Submissions: #1, #2, and 40 others.

Alternate titles:
"Man Mistakes Bear for Beer"
"A Real Bearwurst"
"Bear Fodder"
"Bear Naked"

What readers think:
"Guess the guy misunderstood when his friend said, 'Hey man, go git us a couple of dem beers.'" "I cannot bear this story." "Today's the day the teddy bears have their piiiiic-nic."

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Submitted by: Lyz, John V
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