Person Fined More than $5,000 for Intentionally Waking Sleeping Polar Bear
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It is forbidden to disturb, attract or pursue the largest land robber in the world in the Norwegian archipelago for no reason.
On Spitsbergen, a man awakened a sleeping polar bear with the fog horn of a ship. For this he now has to pay about 4550 Euro penalty.
One Needless Honk Woke a Sleeping Polar Bear and Cost a Passenger $5,000
Wild animals resting in their habitats must be left undisturbed, and that means not making noise, and definitely not honking. However, one person learned the lesson the hard way after being fined NOK 50,000 (around $5,000) for sounding the horn from a boat they did not even own, instantly disturbing the polar bear. A report by Dexerto states that the incident occurred recently in a vessel that was passing through the Svalbard archipelago in Norw…
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