And you think you're having a tulip week.

[DaveB]

Five get stranded in the snow - and polar bears are closing in - BBC Three

Five Russian scientists are currently stranded in a small wooden shack in the Arctic, surrounded by a family of hungry bears. After two weeks, they've run out of flares to scare off the bears. And it gets worse. It'll be a month before anyone can reach them to help. It's like a horror story, but this time... it's real.

[MaryPoppins]

On R4 on Weds I'm sure they said that they'd been rescued and were all fine now (bears included).

[BlasterBates]

Polar bears are nearly extinct so they must have been very unlucky indeed to have encountered them.

[IL Cattivo]

Hollywood will be all over this like flies to turd!

I am however somewhat suspicious about its legitimacy though... Seems the BBC have rather a lot of info there!

[WTFH]

Hollywood will be all over this like flies to turd!

I am however somewhat suspicious about its legitimacy though... Seems the BBC have rather a lot of info there!

Is the Torygraph more to sir's liking:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...-bears-who-at/

(As Ms Poppins says, the story has a happy ending)

Here's the more up-to-date BBC offering:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37359430

[woohoo]

On R4 on Weds I'm sure they said that they'd been rescued and were all fine now (bears included).

damn, and I've always wanted to know who would win in a fight, a polar bear or a drunken Russian scientist.

[missinggreenfields]

Five get stranded in the snow - and polar bears are closing in - BBC Three

"Five get stranded in the snow", one of Enid Blyton's less successful works.

[barrydidit]

"Five get stranded in the snow", one of Enid Blyton's less successful works.

Is that the one where Timmy the dog was eaten after it turned out he was a tulip husky?

[IL Cattivo]

Is the Torygraph more to sir's liking:
Russian scientists besieged by pack of Arctic polar bears who ate their dog and slept under hut's windows

(As Ms Poppins says, the story has a happy ending)

Depends from which perspective you look at it.! Those bears must have felt pretty aggrieved to have only come away with one measly dog from that potential bounty!

[BrilloPad]

And I thought polar bears only ate penguins. Are the scientists wearing penguin suits?