After perching on a wall above the pit, a 25-year-old man jumped in, seemingly about to endure a horrendous death in front of visitors enjoying a day out at Switzerland's Bern Bear Park.

As cool as Bern is, we were all eager to get into the ... It sounds like quite the spectacle! We walked to the bear pit, or Bärengraben, on the edge of the old city and waited a few minutes ...