Post by grrraaahhh on Jul 5, 2011 6:28:57 GMT -9
Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, normally gets in trouble for what he does at dinner (a.k.a. "bunga bunga") parties. Over the weekend, however, a group of his political allies got in trouble for what they were going to eat - the meat from brown bears.
Armed officers stormed into a venue at Imer in the Italian Dolomites after being tipped off that the Northern League, a political coalition aligned with Berlusconi, had ordered and was readying to eat more than 100 pounds of bear meat, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The hunting of bears is illegal in Italy, so the Northern League said it had gotten the meat from nearby Slovenia, The Guardian reports. About 200 people had lined up to chomp down on grilled and stewed bear[....]
www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20076590-503543.html
Armed officers stormed into a venue at Imer in the Italian Dolomites after being tipped off that the Northern League, a political coalition aligned with Berlusconi, had ordered and was readying to eat more than 100 pounds of bear meat, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The hunting of bears is illegal in Italy, so the Northern League said it had gotten the meat from nearby Slovenia, The Guardian reports. About 200 people had lined up to chomp down on grilled and stewed bear[....]
www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20076590-503543.html