[sundarurfriend]

> the Dangerous Wildlife War between India and the home of the proper vikings.

Was there an other side to this war? The most dangerous animal you're likely to come across (realistically, without getting photoshop involved) in an average Indian street would be a monkey. I've also come across many varieties of snakes, from time to time, but they're generally chill and just want to be left alone. The monkeys are ruthless bastards though, not to be trifled with.

[eirikref]

Oh, absolutely not. They had no idea, and it wasn't really a thing outside of a few minutes of pranking one engineer visiting us + a bit of photoshopping for fun.

The only ones to ever get in touch about this whole thing was, 1) The Y! corporate blog who wanted us to make a lighthearted a fun write-up about the polar bears, which I cannot seem to find online anymore, and 2) a random local from Trondheim, Norway who sent me quite the angry e-mail telling me that I was single-handedly ruining the tourism business in town with that silly image.

[bborud]

I didn't know about the angry email. That makes the story even more fun.

[unmole]

Stray dogs are a much bigger problem on Indian streets. In 2020 ~6.8 million Indians were bitten by stray dogs and thousands of them die of rabies every year.