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July 23, 2010
A bear. In a car.
Bear in Car, originally uploaded by KB35.
I think somebody could start an entire blog about bears and the various shenanigans they get themselves involved in. Today, I've learned about a bear in Colorado that smelled a sandwich, went to investigate, and got himself stuck in a car. Classic.
"At 3:28 this morning a neighbor called in a suspicious vehicle because a horn had been honking for 45 minutes. Deputies responded and discovered a bear in the car," said Deputy Michelle Rademacher.
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Ben's father, Ralph, said the bear hit the shifter and the car rolled backward about 125 feet, off the driveway, down an embankment and into some trees on Eagle Road near Tenderfoot Drive.
"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," Ralph said. "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."
Ben told 7NEWS he had left a sandwich in the car and that may have attracted the big bear.
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"When the cop came up to the car, he thought it was a bunch of kids goofing around. He put a flashlight on it. And he saw this bear turn around, in the driver's seat, and he turned around and looked at him. And when the cop saw that he said he never ran so fast in his life," Ralph said.
Ralph said sheriff's deputies eventually got the bear out of the car by tying a long rope to the door handle to open it. Eventually the bear wandered off back into the woods around 5 a.m.
Man, when I leave food in the car, all I have to worry about is the stench if it stays in there too long. I wouldn't last one second in Colorado. Or anywhere there's bears, like New Jersey. Well, I wouldn't last in New Jersey either, but for other reasons.
entry no. 1490
Posted at July 23, 2010 12:40 PM