Ralph and Ben Story of Larkspur, Colo., have the story of the day. It involves an unlocked car, a peanut butter sandwich, a hungry black bear and a middle-of-the-night joy ride at 6,669 feet above sea level .Take it away, Ralph:
"So this bear opened the door on his own. Somehow the door closed behind him. He panicked and started thrashing around, hit the shifter and put the car, took it out of park. It rolled back, down over the hill, and down into here, and stopped. The four way flashers were on. It's like he knew what was going on, and kept hitting the horn."
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A neighbor finally got tired of hearing the horn for 45 minutes and called the police. Cops used a long rope to open the door and let the bear go free. The car was trashed. Ben and Ralph are teenagers. I guess that explains it all. It made me laugh and I'm glad they had a camera.
A neighbor finally got tired of hearing the horn for 45 minutes and called the police. Cops used a long rope to open the door and let the bear go free. The car was trashed. Ben and Ralph are teenagers. I guess that explains it all. It made me laugh and I'm glad they had a camera.
9 comments:
I guess he's smarter than the average bear :)
I hope you're feeling better, how are you fairing with the weather? The humidity feels so oppressive, it's hard to breathe :( We've had over 12 inches of rain in the last 36 hours and my garden is swimming.
Nasty month, next month will be worse. I have the air on all the time now. I only go out in the yard after dark.
It's a toss up as to what is worse. The heat and humidity during the day or the goddamn bugs at night.
i look at that pix and i just keep thinking that if that bear took a dump or piss in that car, they'll never get the smell out!
Miss Tia,
If I was in that car and it was rolling backwards down a hill with no one controlling it, I would have taken a dump and a piss, and I doubt my smell of fear would have remained behind!
should read ..and I have no doubt that my smell of fear....
I can't believe the neighbor listened to the horn that long before calling the cops. What if someone was in the car having a heart attack? I would have been bitching at someone after 5 minutes of the damn horn.
Caught the interview on Today this morning.
The teen who owned the car said the bear left a big steaming pile of poo in the driver's seat before escaping back into the woods.
The interview really was funny - everyone involved had a good sense of humor.
Isn't it Russia where some of the bears have learned to knock on doors to get into houses in their search for food? Animals are more intelligent than we give them credit for, and in something like a bear, that is damn scary.
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