Polar Bear Alert!
-2 degrees, sunny with cloud
Nuuk, Greenland – Nuuk was in an absolute panic this afternoon. Someone had reported a polar bear sighting in Nuussuaq, one of Nuuk’s residential neighbourhoods. And did word ever get around quick.
Locals were buzzing about the bear and local journalists were running all over town to find it. We were doing a TV interview on the beach with the ICC’s Lene Kielsen Holm and a passerby yelled down from the street above to give us the news.
The problem was, there never really was a bear, it was just some kind of hoax run rampant. No one is sure exactly how the rumour got started. But apparently, there HAD been a polar bear in one of the towns south of Nuuk in recent days. Presumably, it had floated down on some sea ice. The theory is the Nuuk polar bear alert had actually just been an unfortunate case of broken telephone.
Only in Greenland!
