Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the region’s governor said in a statement. The incident occurred earlier in August when someone used the booming, low-pitched horn, usually reserved for maritime warnings, aboard a vessel that had