I was really irked to hear it myself. So he ate some sheep, what's the big deal? All the sheep I've met have been too stupid to live, and bad-tempered to boot.
 

He also ate bunnies, apparently.
 

Was he drunk?

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Seriously, aren't lamb and rabbit staples of cuisine in Bavaria?

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Well you know it's just one short step from eating sheep and bunnies to eating PEOPLE.
 

The headlines in the Bildzeitung this morning are great: apparently poor old Bruno was "gunned down" and his body "secretly" removed from the site of the "murder". And some people have, in return, threatened to kill the hunters involved. So at least we're managing to keep everything in perspective here. Or have the effects of the World Cup and the heat gone to everyone's head?
 

I recall a newspaper headline (Muenchner Abenzeitung?)a few weeks ago that announced something like: Now there's proof! The bear is Italian!

That probably explains it.