It's clearer than that
there were cages - that Sawyer and Kate were kept in - that dispensed fish-flavoured biscuits. These were where the polar bears escaped from not that that explains why they were kept there or anything...
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Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Tue 25 May 2010, 10:20,
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Or how the polar bear skull with the dharma badge got to tunisia
ARGHHHH
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Victor Meldrew,
Tue 25 May 2010, 10:34,
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