# Don't mess with Polar bears, they will throw rocks at you! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064 "2012-09-08T02:07:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/1 "2012-09-08T02:07:14Z")
[This is a pants crapping moment - Polar Bear Throws A Rock Breaking Window at the Zoo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IxcqLyDnk) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/2 "2012-09-08T02:12:18Z")
LOL - Holy Crap would that make me freak out! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/3 "2012-09-08T03:21:01Z")
From the video title, I thought: wow, the bear picked up a window and threw it at the zoo, breaking the rock!..? If bears are godless killing machines, then polar bears are the godlessest, killingest machines. I realize they live in frozen tundra, but there’s something scary about an animal that chooses to be stark white instead of RealTree camouflage or something. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/4 "2012-09-08T08:13:44Z")
Tosh, he just drops it. At 00.12 the polar bear picks up a rock then drops it. No attempt to throw. Then later he picks up the same rock but drops it again, from higher up and close to the glass. The rock is oblong and as it tumbles it happens to hit and crack the glass. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/5 "2012-09-08T11:17:54Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Tosh, he just drops it. At 00.12 the polar bear picks up a rock then drops it. No attempt to throw. Then later he picks up the same rock but drops it again, from higher up and close to the glass. The rock is oblong and as it tumbles it happens to hit and crack the glass. This naïveté is why you’ll be first to fall in the polar bear revolution. Just sayin. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/6 "2012-09-08T12:41:41Z")
Very interesting. I wonder if a rock-throwing polar bear could beat a lion in a fight? ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/7 "2012-09-08T13:35:06Z")
The think that kills me about this is that the cameraman is still filming after it’s obvious what had happened. That tank could shatter at any moment, and this moron’s still thinking, “Hot damn, I can put this on Youtube!” ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/8 "2012-09-08T13:45:00Z")
I told you guys to watch it:dubious:… and for the lion thing, at this time in the election cycle it seems fitting to say: _Yes we can!_🆒:D. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/9 "2012-09-08T14:44:46Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > The think that kills me about this is that the cameraman is still filming after it’s obvious what had happened. That tank could shatter at any moment, and this moron’s still thinking, “Hot damn, I can put this on Youtube!” Unless that’s the world steadiest human being, the camera is clearly resting on something. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/10 "2012-09-08T15:11:48Z")
Btw, this is at Blijdorp in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and the first thing the guy says after it happens is ‘Jezus, let’s get out of here’ in a very posh accent; we are a leftist lot, us polar bears. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/11 "2012-09-08T17:37:11Z")
Is this zoo near a quarry? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-polar-bears-they-will-throw-rocks-at-you/634064/12 "2012-09-08T17:46:02Z")
I’m a little surprised the glass broke. I’d have to think that the polar bear had collided with it harder than that rock hit at some point. I guess maybe there was a sharp edge that caught it just right or something, though.