car trashed by bear because peanut butter sandwhich left in car

[Liberal_in_LA]

see pic of trashed car at link

Colo. bear toots horn, takes car on short joyride

DENVER -- A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said. Seventeen-year-old Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, when the bear managed to open the unlocked door of his 2008 Toyota Corolla early Friday and climbed inside.

A peanut butter sandwich left on the back seat is probably what attracted the bear, Story said.

It's not unusual for bears to open unlocked doors to cars and houses in search of food, said Tyler Baskfield, a spokesman for the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

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Neighbors had called 911, and deputies freed the bear by opening the door with a rope from a distance. It then ran into the woods.

Story said he'll need a new car because the bear trashed the interior while apparently trying to find a way out.


The bear also left what Story called "a present" on the driver's seat.

Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2010/07/23/1264538/colo-bear-toots-horn-takes-car.html#ixzz0udFskCRx

[Oregone]

1. Good thing they didn't have Twinkies instead

The thing would of been ripped apart by munchie suffering potheads.

[Cleita]

2. When I lived in the woods, I heard stories of this.

When I was a campground host, we were very strict about visitors leaving food lying around. I had to reprimand many campers about picking up their trash and putting it into the bear locker trash cans and making sure that uneaten food was locked in the trunk of their cars. However, one thing that happened was so funny. We who were hosts were living there in trailers, which means we had kitchens and food in the frig. Since most of us never locked our trailers when we were working, one enterprising bear entered one of the host's trailer, opened the frig and I guess feasted, leaving the food all over the floor that he didn't eat. He left no real damage other than a mess. The reason they knew it was a bear was that he left some forensic evidence behind like paw prints, claw marks on the frig, and some fur that got caught on the door jam. It was the funniest thing because he knew how to open the doors and didn't have to rip anything. I wonder how many home invasions in the cabins around the woods there had been done by this bear?

:rofl:

[pipi_k]

8. I live in a rural area, and during the summer months

I get real concerned about leaving anything out on my counters or wherever that a bear could smell.

One morning (about 4 AM) I awoke to some security lights on in the yard. I went into the kitchen and looked out the big bay window to see a medium sized black bear up on the roof of the dog "patio" attached to the house, not three feet away from the window.

Whenever a bear decides to pay us a visit, Mr Pip grabs his shotgun and fires off a huge (blank) blast, scaring the critter off into the woods.

Feeding the bears...intentionally or not, can often be a death sentence for them.

:(

[Cleita]

11. Some states like Montana will kill any bear that has

had any human contact. This occurred in North Eastern Washington state. The Forest Service was a little more tolerant and didn't kill a bear for these kind of infractions unless they considered them a potential danger. The worst that happened is that we permanent campers were more vigilant about keeping our food and our trailers under lock and key. We had some apple trees in the campground that were planted decades ago. More than once I saw a bear up in the tree early in the morning eating apples when I was doing my rounds. I never said anything to the campers because the bear usually took off into the woods the minute she saw me and I was at a distance. She knew it was time to go home.

[pipi_k]

16. That's what makes me sad about human/wild animal contact...

Sometimes even human/domestic animal contact as well...

the animal acts like an animal and ends up paying the price... :(



I have a bunch of blueberry bushes in my yard that mature mid-August. Not once in the 14 years I've been here have I ever seen a bear down there eating them. Sort of weird, really. I was always under the impression that bears loved (or at least would eat) blueberries.

[northernlights]

12. the best America'sFunniest Home Video I ever saw

was taken in the middle of the night in somebody's kitchen. One of their two dogs -- or so they thought -- was getting into the refrigerator in the middle of the night, helping himself to various food items and leaving a mess. So they set up a video to figure out which dog it was.

Surprise, surprise. A racoon lets himself into the kitchen through the dog door, opens the fridge, pulls out a carton of milk, sits back and guzzles it down, drops the carton, starts rummaging around the fridge again picking out various items, a nibble of this and tosses it aside, a nibble of that and tosses that aside... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: too freakin' cute!

[pipi_k]

17. The two funniest ones I ever saw involved dogs...

One was about a dog that neighbors said was running around the neighborhood making a pest of himself. Not vicious, just being a pest, rummaging through garbage, etc. The neighbors told the owner, who did not believe it. So they set up a camera, and sure enough, when everyone left for school and work, the dog let himself out the front door, ravaged the neighborhood, then let himself back in the house again. Busted!!! :7




The other involved a kid's birthday party. Birthday boy is sitting with his friends at a table with a sheet cake and there are balloons all over the place and he's getting ready to blow out the candles when about three...maybe four...little Boston Terriers jump up on the table and start leaping around trying to get the balloons. Only trouble is, they're also bouncing around in the cake, and the kid is crying and the dogs are having a blast not even paying attention. First time I saw that one, I nearly killed myself laughing. :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. hee!

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. lol. the dogs were vindicated!

[FirstLight]

3. Not uncommon...

they KNOW what packaging looks like too. When working for Cal State parks here in tahoe, the bear had a specific route he followed, and knew even what wrappers looked like and would bust open cars to chek inside even if there was a empty potato chip bag on the seat.

I myself have had the bear climb into MY car, I'd left the window open and he had found a can of slim-fast...he tried vanilla and chocolate, liked the chocolate better and ate it while smearing his pawsprints all over the upholstery...he even left a nose print on the rearview mirror!

he was pretty happy though because he didn't claw up the inside of the car ;)

[marmar]

4. Wanted, dead or alive......

[LiberalFighter]

5. Can we instruct Republicans to smear PB in their ??? when they go hiking?

[cayanne]

6. Oh My

Bear pop stinks to high heaven. GAG!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[pipi_k]

9. So does

their meat.

One of my exes was given some bear meat one time and he cooked it in the broiler.

Absolutely disgusting smell.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. If I was stuck in a car heading for an accident, I would leave a "present" too

God, how do some people survive. I don't even live in bear country and I know better than that.

[hlthe2b]

10. Heck my dog can (& does) open peanut butter jars for her fix....

So, somehow, i am not surprised. That's why we have those fancy schmancy bear-proof garbage and food containers, guys? That car was just too easy.

[Snarkoleptic]

13. In a seemingly related story, republiclowns trash economy to get last dime from middle class pocket.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. This then answers the age old question. Bears don't only shit in the woods.

:rofl:

[tavalon]

15. In the Zoo,

they call that enrichment!:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

18. Colbert was right. Nothing but a menace.