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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 09:41 AM
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Some days, you get the Bear. Some days, the Bear gets you.
Edited on Tue Nov-03-09 09:54 AM by formercia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8339549.stm
Bear kills militants in Kashmir
By Altaf Hussain
BBC News, Srinagar



A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.

Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.

The militants were armed with AK-46s but were taken by surprise - police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.

It is thought to be the first such incident since Muslim separatists took up arms against Indian rule in 1989.

--snip--

Those AK 46s again. Only for High Party Officials. Special price, only for you.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 09:49 AM
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1. Well, to be fair . . .the AK-46 DOES exist, it was the predecessor to the AK-47
I don't think it ever went into wide use though :).

As you might guess, it was invented in 1946:

http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/models/ka30.html
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 10:03 AM
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4. I know, I was looking at that
...and trying to get a "this one goes to 11" joke together, but I couldn't get there from here. :D
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 09:53 AM
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2. The bears are smarter! I was watching a program on Hudson
yesterday and the presenter said that on one voyage, his men were hungry and tried to catch a bear for dinner but the bears were smarter than they were. :)
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 10:02 AM
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3. I know the feeling
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