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ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS IN Bulgaria said they were considering fining adventurer Bear Grylls over an episode of his Running Wild series in which he killed a frog and boiled it on a camping stove.
In the episode filmed in Bulgaria’s Rila mountains in 2017, Grylls and US Latin and ballroom dancer Derek Hough were shown killing, gutting and cooking the frog before swimming across a lake.
“It is evident from the film material that during the shooting there were breaches to the regulations and rules of conduct in protected areas: entering and swimming in the water basin of the Karakashevo lake, lighting a fire, and catching and killing an animal,” the environment ministry said in a statement.
The series’ production company faces a possible fine of between €500 and €5,000 while Grylls and Hough could receive fines of between €250 and €2,500.
The Rila national park in southwestern Bulgaria is the country’s largest.
It is a protected area and the ministry said the crew had been briefed on what they could and could not do during the shoot.
The ministry added that it would also investigate possible failings on the part of park authority officials who accompanied the crew.
Grylls served with the British armed forces’ elite Special Air Service (SAS) before finding fame with a string of adventure TV shows in the UK and the US in which he demonstrates survival techniques in inhospitable climates.
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Kermit the crime then you gotta pay the fine.
@Mysterion: has to get comment of the week.
@Mysterion: Nobody can top that one. Give up now lads.
@Mysterion: hahahaha brilliant
@Michael Cawley: Sorry lads. Comment of the week has already gone to Martin Morris for his “Switches be trippin’” comment on the story about people getting stuck on a Seaworld ride after “a gust of wind tripped a circuit breaker”.
@Mysterion: how ever many likes this gets..it won’t be enough. Tip of hat sir.
@Mysterion: well done…
@Mysterion: Good pun but I didn’t find it ribbitting.
Like when he gutted is sheep and wore the fur during the episode in Ireland. Sure if he walked over the hill he would have found a supermacs.
@Michael Cawley: I saw a meme of him which said ‘Ooohhh a dead seal, much better than the jacket I was wearing’
@Michael Cawley: climbed up a cliff in Galway and came out top in Donegal. Nice editing. Now put down the sheep and stamp out that bonfire and let’s book into the hotel for the night.
He managed to annoy me by being on TV
@Motherofthree: the man is a living legend
remember that time he was supposedly in the west of ireland, but turned out he was running around someones back garden and about 5 mins from the closest village! legend
I know, I reddit!
@John O’Neill: remember the time he broke his back in a parachute accident and went on to climb Everest and have a ridiculously successful TV career afterwards!
As they swam across the lake to the 5 star Ritz Carlton.
@EdmundOrlando: very cynical. And also untrue. Apart from series 1 over 10 years ago.
Well thank God it was Bulgaria and not France
Hope it doesn’t spawn another TV series.
The headline should have more accurately read, “Bear Gryllis may be fined for breaching environmentally protected zone.”
I’m just about taking in this story, now that I’ve “reddit, reddit”.
I doubt he annoyed most of bulgaria by boiling a frog.
I think bulgarians are probably more worried about their families, money, health, their job, social lives etc etc
@Paul Donaghy: Ye could say the same about the Irish
@Pixie McMullen:
The Irish are more worried about their next pint
@Paul Donaghy: If worse comes to worst, just give the Mayor of Dublin a shout. He’s got a rake of pints at his gaf.
Wait until they see him drink his own piss….
Be lucky that’s all he ate.
Dave will be on soon to defend his beloved Bulgaria
@Patrick Nolan: I reckon that €5K could build a state of the art hospital in the centre of Sofia.
@Patrick Nolan: Do you personally have anything against Bulgaria?
Camera man is the real hero …..
Can we strip him if his Irish citizenship for this?
Fine too small for all those violations in a national park.
Up the RA
He should have done that in France
RIPpit
Tit.
He’s been stung again!
Oh my frog
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