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The polar bear which attacked a group of British campers on Friday and was shot by one of the group members, is examined by experts in Longyearbyen August 6, 2011
Monday, Aug. 08, 2011

Open quoteYou said if the polar bear had glasses, it would have gone for me because I was the chubbiest!Close quote

  • PATRICK FLINDERS,
  • a British teenager who survived a polar bear attack in Norway, making light of his father's reaction to his ordeal; he had some of the animal's teeth removed from his skull during emergency surgery
Photo: Lars Erik Alfheim / Reuters / District governor of Spitsbergens office / Scanpix Norway | Source: Guardian