Zoo practises polar bear escape

Описание: (22 Feb 2002)

Ueno Zoo, Tokyo Japan
1. Children watching Penguins
2. Kids effecting evacuation drill
3. Real polar bear inside the barrier
4. Fake polar bear (one of the zoo's employees in costume) slipping out
5. Bear wandering around
6. Zoo employee on walkie-talkie
7. Bear running past frightened visitors
8. Bear knocking over visitors
9. Zoo staff with nets, pan to bear
10. Zoo staff in vehicle
11. Bear walking, UPSOUND Shot fired
12. Zoo employee holding stun gun
13. Bear falls over
14. Bear's face
15. Zoo employees approach with shields
16. Various bear is lifted onto stretcher

STORYLINE:

Tokyo's residents are used to carrying out earthquake drills, but on Friday, there was a drill with a difference.

An employee at a Tokyo zoo dressed up as a polar bear and effected a fake escape.

It seems one of the worries about earthquakes is that they could lead to dangerous and wild animals escaping from their damaged pens and roaming Tokyo.

So the zoo wanted to practice for this eventuality - but without the danger of using a real bear.

The pretend 'bear' was eventually overpowered by tranquilisers, but not before he managed to knock over a couple of the zoo's visitors.

Keyword: Wacky

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