If you visit Bern, Switzerland, you’re likely to find a pit at the end of town that contains a few friendly-looking bears:
However, Switzerland is a zoo… especially during tourist season. And do you know what happens in a zoo?
Inappropriate feeding:

Here’s a closer look at the same image. Notice the parent and child in the upper right.
As the sign often says, “Do not feed the bears.” But if you must feed them, please remember that your kid is not appropriate for a bear’s dinner. The bear may enjoy him, but you’re inviting a lot of trouble on yourself.
The quiet ain’t worth it.
oh my gosh. Insults my intelligence, too. Guess they want to have something to tell the kids when they get older…..(shaking my head in disbelief).
Or maybe they’re just supporting their hometown pediatric psychiatrist…
Someone fed themselves to these bears in 2009 and survived- maybe he wasn’t tasty enough…………
That could be. Tourists often have bad taste.
(sorry for the bad pun)
All I can say is Darwin awards. The gene pool needs some chlorine!
Yeah. That kid should be resisting a little more.
That poor kid must be scared to death.
Leslie
Unless he thinks bears are friendly…
People are idiots. And that is the most depressing-looking bear pit I’ve ever seen – even more than Riga Zoo! 🙂
But, as you like to put it, I bet the Latvians speak Bear better than anyone else.
Of course! They do EVERYTHING better than everyone else 😉
The whole scene is disturbing.
Fortunately, they don’t make the bears do tricks, though…
It just needs a little sign that says child snacks are not permitted in the bear den.
The obligatory stick figure drawing to accompany that would be fascinating.
I bet there is one somewhere. 🙂
Sometimes it is good when the bears eat the stupid people… or their offspring… that is called ‘natural selection’… we should be pushing the stupid people to the outside of the herd.
Um… Art… aren’t you the one who keeps calling yourself stupid?
shhh… don’t use my own quotes to hoist me by my own petard!
Especially when he’s got your car keys in his pocket.
The bear’s not too fond of that possibility, either.
no…. they’d get caught in his teeth.. I empathize. 😀
Unbelievable!!
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