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Nut jobs abound!

Apparently the Japanese aren't the only ones silly enough to jump into the bear enclosures at a zoo; "lonely Germans" do it as well.

A self-described 'lonely' man jumped into the enclosure of the Berlin's zoo's famed polar bear Knut.

German police say zoo workers were able to keep the 200-kilogram bear away from the intruder by distracting him with a leg of beef. The 37-year-old man, whose name has not been released, jumped over a fence into a water-filled ditch at the edge of the bear's enclosure Monday morning.

Okay so you're probably asking yourself WTF was this guy thinking?

Police said the man initially ignored instructions to leave the enclosure, but was eventually led away unharmed.

Before being let go, the man told them that he felt lonely and the bear appeared lonely, too.

More like he was hungry and waiting for dinner. From my own experiances, I know Polars may look slow and dumb but they sure aren't. I had a memory from years ago "pop" back into my head after reading this.

In the 80's, I lived up in Canada's far north. The furthest south I saw in 6 years was Churchill, Manitoba. For those of you who don't know - Churchill is the "Polar Bear Capital of the Wortld"

I am sure it was in 1982 when a German tourist lost his arm after bopping a bear on the nose. One of the locals used to take tourists out to photograph the bears in a specially built vehicle. If I remember this correctly - the tourist in mind was hanging out the window and wanted the bear to look upwards at him so - he bopped the bear on the nose.

The rest is history and so is his arm.

I spent more than 8 years in the artic and not once did I ever think a polar was lonely. Maybe that comes from watching them bat sea lions out of the water with a single swipe of a paw.

Carleton University Students Association voted Monday night overwhelmingly in favour of choosing a new charity to support during its orientation week in September, in lieu of Shinerama, which raises money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Okay - so you're thinking, so what. Here's the thing about this piece of stupidity their reason. According to these university students, you know the type that should have a brain, Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that affects only white males and it isn't inclusive enough.

Umm last time I looked CF affected people from all corners of the globe, usually youth, males tend to live longer than affectd females, but this disease does not discriminate. Apparently these brainiacs couldn't look it up for themselves.

Only one student councillor there seems to have a brain. Nick Bergamini was the only student councillor to vote against the motion.

I think that it's political correctness gone horribly, horribly wrong. They're playing not just politics with this, but they're playing racial politics, and I think it's entirely inappropriate.

One a single student councillor got it right - that doesn't leave much hope for their generation. It's no wonder that Carleton is better known as "Last Chance U".

CBC Story Now the student union is back pedalling contradicting themselves all over the radio.

If you are looking for something to watch that requires absolutely no thinking at all then "Meet The Spartans" is for you.

Normally I like spoofs of other movies, for example "Scary Movie" and "Epic Movie"; this one however ...is about as brain dead as you can get. A take off on "300", another brain dead movie, this is about as bad as you can get and still somehow manage to get people to rent the thing.

The story line is pretty much nonexistant, the acting overdone, even the gags repeat themselves to the point where you start to wonder if anyone had an original idea. Just how many times do you want to see exploding boils, zits and humps?

The only saving grace to this film is that I didn't have to pay for it and didn't miss much getting up and going outside to watch the grass grow. Shame on you Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Andromeda) for even getting involved in this major turkey.

Final words of wisdom, don't even rent the thing.