The international Panda plot

Panda Bears may look all cute and cuddly, but I've long suspected that the Red Chinese, who seem all too happy to lend them to American zoos, are training them to kill us. Sure, you all scoffed at me and pointed and called me crazy behind my back. Well, who's laughing now?

A panda cub bit off part of the thumb of an American visitor who was feeding it at a reserve in southwest China, state media said Thursday.

The 50-year-old woman, identified only as Lisa, had registered in the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan province as a volunteer, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

She was wearing gloves and feeding the panda bamboo on Tuesday morning when "suddenly, the panda bit into her thumb," Xinhua said.

"When she cried out, the cub became excited and gripped more tightly,"it said. "Lisa finally managed to wrench herself free."

About 20 percent of the thumb had been bitten off, Xinhua said.

A man who answered the telephone at the center's administrative office said it had no comment.

Of course they had no comment. You think they're going to just blab all their nefarious killer Panda plans?

Besides, it's not like this hasn't happened before.