There is something rotten in Finland

**Watchman** · 11-03-2006, 17:05

Nope, although it's a popular joke. Which is kind of the point of the joke above methinks.

We do have the type of brown-ish bear you find all across the world on the northern coniferous belt, though. But those are honourable fighters; they only ever seem to attack armed hunters.

**Fragony** · 11-03-2006, 17:22

Originally Posted by Watchman

Nope, although it's a popular joke. Which is kind of the point of the joke above methinks.

We do have the type of brown-ish bear you find all across the world on the northern coniferous belt, though. But those are honourable fighters; they only ever seem to attack armed hunters.

Yaya I got the joke

That is bloody awesome that you still have wild bears over there, here we only get to run from wasps. We should build some nature here as well.

**lars573** · 11-03-2006, 18:07

Nations that have a low people/km^2 ratio and high urbanization tend to have a lot more large animal species. Predatory ones especially. For example I wouldn't be surprised if our favorite tree killing mod has to keep his waste containers behind iron bars to keep bears out of them.

In Churchill Manitoba they have a bear patrol. Due to the fact that actual polar bears (which are about the size of a large european car and 10x as dangerous) migrate through the town every spring. There is also bear patrols in Whistler BC, smaller black bears raid the resort towns hotel dumpsters. And houses if stupid residents feed them. Bears are smart and black bears can crawl through the average north american windows (screens don't stop them) and open you fridge an cupboards. Then they eat everything.