Man in bear suit - Far Side?

[TriPolar]

Can you read this storyand not think ofthis?

[j666]

More this one.

[kayaker]

It wasn’t immediately known what the man was trying to accomplish.

I love that sentence.

I can just see police detectives sifting through the evidence, brainstorming, trying to arrive at a logical motive. Searching the VICAP database for similar crimes. Generating wanted posters based on witness sketches.

[not_what_you_d_expect]

I’ve never seen either of those cartoons before, but what a strange story. I’m so curious about why this person felt the need to do that.

[j666]

@kayaker

I love that sentence.

I can just see police detectives sifting through the evidence, brainstorming, trying to arrive at a logical motive. Searching the VICAP database for similar crimes. Generating wanted posters based on witness sketches.

THAT sounds like a Larson cartoon.

[YogSothoth]

Maybe it was Nicolas Cage doing some method acting for his next movie, The Wicker Man 2: The Revenge

[running_coach]

This caught my eye.

Alaska Fish and Game technician Lou Cenicola moved the sow out the way for the man’s safety and then tried to talk to the man, which Sogge said is a little outside Cenicola’s normal duties.

How the hell do you do that? Or is it the sight of his giant balls that persuades a sow with two cubs to move?

[Gatopescado]

Obviously a suicide attempt. He just couldn’t bear living any more.

[G0sp3l]

and had momma bear gone all “momma bear” on the @$$hole, she would have been the one being destroyed. What a world.

[Walken_After_Midnight]

Obligatory link to Nicholas Cage in a bear suit.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

I wonder what the poor bears are doing this season?

[Johnny_L.A]

I can’t think of The Far Side and bears without thinking of this one.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

Or this one.

[Jophiel]

The should have called in that Project Grizzly dude from years back. See how well bear-man drives off with a face full of bear mace!

[Clothahump]

All I could think of was this.

[Fotheringay-Phipps]

I’ve speculated about the practical advantage of robbing a bank while dressed in a gorilla suit.

On the one hand, you would attract a lot of notice on your way in, and it would be hard to just mingle with the crowd on the way out. But on the other hand, the bank’s cameras would be useless in identifying you. If you had a gorilla suit that you could easily and quickly put on and take off, I can see it being an advantage.

The visual is compelling, in any event. A bunch of people waiting on line for the teller, including one guy dressed in a gorilla suit. Then he pulls out a gun when he gets to the front.

Somebody needs to try this.

[TriPolar]

@Fotheringay-Phipps

I’ve speculated about the practical advantage of robbing a bank while dressed in a gorilla suit.

On the one hand, you would attract a lot of notice on your way in, and it would be hard to just mingle with the crowd on the way out. But on the other hand, the bank’s cameras would be useless in identifying you. If you had a gorilla suit that you could easily and quickly put on and take off, I can see it being an advantage.

The visual is compelling, in any event. A bunch of people waiting on line for the teller, including one guy dressed in a gorilla suit. Then he pulls out a gun when he gets to the front.

Somebody needs to try this.

If you get a bunch of people to toss a basketball around while you rob the bank in a gorilla suit then no one will see you at all.

[leftfield6]

@Fotheringay-Phipps

I’ve speculated about the practical advantage of robbing a bank while dressed in a gorilla suit.

On the one hand, you would attract a lot of notice on your way in, and it would be hard to just mingle with the crowd on the way out. But on the other hand, the bank’s cameras would be useless in identifying you. If you had a gorilla suit that you could easily and quickly put on and take off, I can see it being an advantage.

The visual is compelling, in any event. A bunch of people waiting on line for the teller, including one guy dressed in a gorilla suit. Then he pulls out a gun when he gets to the front.

Somebody needs to try this.

Yawn. Google “gorilla suit robbery” and you will see that nothing is so zany that it hasn’t been tried. And almost certainly tried in Florida specifically.

[carnivorousplant]

One is reminded of Timothy Treadwell.

[Malthus]

@Gatopescado

Obviously a suicide attempt. He just couldn’t bear living any more.

On the contrary - it’s clear he intended to grin and bear it.