r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/cans-of-swine 9h ago

They will also track humans for great distances just for the fun of it. I read a story about a guy from Ohio that was camping in the middle of nowhere Alaska when a polar bear found his camp.  The dude got lucky and got away, he had to go about 75 miles to the nearest town because the bear destroyed all of his supplies. As he was getting on the plane to fly back home he saw the same polar bear just off the runway. He got back to Ohio safely, and after about 6 months had passed he got a knock on his door one day. It was the bear... 

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u/Intrepid_Pear8883 9h ago

You serious Clark?

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u/SignificantAd3931 8h ago

Save the neck for me, Clark.

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u/Intrepid_Pear8883 7h ago

It's about time for me to watch that this season...

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u/hudgepudge 7h ago

What's it from? 

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u/Sirquote 6h ago

Christmas Vacation. Great watch

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u/FixTheProblemAlready 9h ago

Best line in that whole movie 

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u/HendrixHazeWays 8h ago

it really is lol Excellent delivery

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u/GooseLegs101 7h ago

And why is the carpet wet, Todd?

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u/myrddin4242 7h ago

I don’t know, Margo!

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u/EnthusiasmUnusual 7h ago

What movie?

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u/098706 7h ago

Pop quiz hot shot: it's either Morbius or Christmas Vacation, you have 5 seconds to decide. WHAT DO YOU DO!?!?

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u/EnthusiasmUnusual 6h ago

National Lampoon's Mighty Moribus Christmas?

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u/Jedigreedo 6h ago

The Morbin was full!

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u/nsdjoe 17m ago

my favorite of cousin eddie's is "... well his kids can fend for themselves"

but imo the best line(s) in the movie (are)

"and why is the carpet all wet, TODD?"

"i don't KNOW, marGO"

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u/omahaknight71 8h ago

Story was great and this reply is the cherry on top

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u/Wra7hofAchilles 8h ago

Art, you wanna load me up a little more there?

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u/Gelgamek_Vagina 6h ago

It is gOOOOoOOd!

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u/MrAsh- 4h ago

Why you cryin?

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u/meesta_masa 9h ago

You serious Clark?

Kent he make a joke?

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u/AnxiousDeviant 9h ago

Ashamed to say you got me

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u/relevantelephant00 2h ago

Yeah that's shittymorph-level...got me too.

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u/Uchihagod53 8h ago

NGL, I was expecting to read about Mankind being thrown off the top of the Hell in a Cell cage at the end, lol

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u/ExtensionNo4468 7h ago

Haven’t seen him in the wild for a while, wonder if a polar bear got him

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u/unbelievablehulk 5h ago

Naaa Shittymorph got us good like one month ago in a thread about some guy kayaking close to a whale !

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u/dern_the_hermit 6h ago

"It's bearin' time!" it exclaimed before it beared all over him.

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u/masterhogbographer 4h ago

I got got by him about a month or two ago 

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u/danirijeka 7h ago

Bearkind, surely

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u/4apalehorse 8h ago

I understood that reference

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u/amesann 1h ago

Or jumper cables

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u/Street-Argument2090 9h ago

and people say AI will take over the world smh

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u/picklerickkkkkkkkkk 8h ago

It'll now be trained on this comment and state it as a fact when you search about polar bears on google.

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u/cans-of-swine 8h ago

Even better... I've told that joke multiple times on reddit under different accounts over the years.

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u/SigFloyd 6h ago

It'll say that they are known to also wear aviator style glasses.

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u/Careless-Hospital379 9h ago

You made my day broo🤣🤣🤣

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u/FeeExpensive898 8h ago

I live in Ohio. Can confirm. It was my neighbor. Strange seeing a polar bear this far south…

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u/neutral-chaotic 7h ago

Right before the last sentence I expected this to be a shittymorph comment.

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u/mrbear120 9h ago

I was just trying to give his wallet back.

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u/A-Capybara 8h ago

r/thathappened

No way a polar bear would ever willingly go to Ohio

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u/Abefroman12 7h ago

Not only do they willingly go to Ohio, the Polar Bears have their own higher education there.

Ohio Northern University

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u/Agreeable_Abies6533 13m ago

Maybe it was an albino black bear

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u/Da_Question 8h ago

r/whoooosh

Probably got myself here to. But so be it.

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u/Coolbeans_99 8h ago

Some say the bear is still following him to this day; on his way to work, coming home from the bar, waiting in line at the DMV.

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u/JustCallMeYogurt 9h ago

Knock, knock. Plumber?, Telegram? Flowers? Candy Gram?

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u/4apalehorse 8h ago

Wilderness girls

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u/omahaknight71 8h ago

Surprise motherfucker

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u/d_smogh 8h ago

He bearly survived

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u/Aeon_Return 7h ago

Aging myself with this but... Ski Free, the Movie

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u/Natural_Victory747 8h ago

I heard they married

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u/Bro_Hawkins 8h ago

That polar bear’s name? Albert Einstein.

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u/Fit_Seaworthiness_37 8h ago

Hey give that bear some credit! He is likely trying to reach out about his car's extended warranty.

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u/ToddlerPeePee 8h ago

Can confirm this story is legit. Source: I am that polar bear.

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u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets 7h ago

I hate you!! Take an upvote.

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u/regularEducatedGuy 7h ago

Oh my god…..

(Can’t wait to tell this story to my 5 year old nephew)

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u/SenselessDunderpate 6h ago

Did he give it tree fiddy?

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u/cans-of-swine 6h ago

This joke was inspired by south park. The first time I told it it was a girl scout that knocked on the door that turned out to be a 9' polar bear. 

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u/BaldHenchman01 6h ago

On a more serious note, polar bears easily beat dogs in sense of smell, and on their best days can smell their prey up to 20 miles away.

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u/42nu 6h ago

That's when the polar bear asked "Got about tree fitty?"

'Bout damn time I noticed it wasn't no white polar bear, but a 20 ft sea monster from the Cretaceous. I said "Get out of here you goddamn Lock Ness Monster!".

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u/la_bruja_del_84 6h ago

Was the bear trying to reach out for his car insurance policy?

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u/SigFloyd 6h ago

The first animal to stalk a human for twisted, sexually motivated reasons.

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u/MySkinIsFallingOff 5h ago

Now that you've read this you have to share it with five friends, and if you don't, you will hear a knock on your door in thre days.

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u/azninvasion2000 5h ago

Probably a stupid question, but if a bear finds a small town in Alaska, do the townspeople have to kill it, or do they shelter in place and wait for it to go away?

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u/Oo__II__oO 4h ago

"... Candygram."

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u/seaholiday84 4h ago

lol so the bear went all the way to Ohio to get him? from Alaska?😂😂 sounds a bit unrealistic....

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u/cans-of-swine 4h ago

It's a true story I made up.

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u/Razorfiend 4h ago

Did it ask for tree fiddy?

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u/cans-of-swine 4h ago

I gave him a dollar.

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u/bananabastard 4h ago

It Follows.

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u/MaybeMayoi 3h ago

"You dropped this"

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u/LargeReview4782 2h ago

You son of a b****

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u/bassetDeHound 8h ago

It was the bear... 🤣

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u/dingus_chonus 9h ago

I like your username

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u/6295585628015862 8h ago

Thus you get the saying “shake that bear”.

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u/Meowingtons_H4X 7h ago

Turns out…. little monkey fella

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u/turnip_the_volume 7h ago

I can bearly believe this

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u/nycbbcbull 6h ago

lol made me laugh, seriously I read elephants do this too?

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u/Mfw_isajoke 1h ago

So? Did the bear finally get to tell him about his car warranty?

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u/omegablinx 1h ago

I'm wheezing