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Tue 20 Jun, 2006 09:15 am
It must have been "just right".
Woman found bear eating porridge
A Canadian woman arrived home to find a bear eating porridge in her kitchen.
"It sounds like a nursery rhyme, doesn't it?" Sgt Paul Skelton of West Vancouver Police told the Toronto Star.
"At least we have a health-conscious bear on our hands."
Sgt Skelton added: "It appeared to be a one to two-year-old bear - a juvenile - within the kitchen enjoying some oatmeal it had obtained by breaking a ceramic food container. When she saw it, she did the right thing. She vacated the area and called us."
But the bear refused to budge despite the best efforts of three police officers.
"The bear didn't appear to be aggressive and wasn't destroying the house, so they just let it do what it was doing and eventually the bear decided to make its way out of the residence and down toward a forested gully," Sgt Skelton said.
They should have tazered or pepper sprayed the bear. That would have made things interesting.
Does that sort of thing even work properly on a bear? Maybe if it's a young one like this.
Probably not. I just thought it would have turned the whole situation into a great training exercise for the police. :wink: If they can handle a pissed off bear, they can handle anyone.
This is in my neck of the woods, by the way. About a 1 1/2 hour drive away.
Good. Next time this happens, wait for the police to show up, then head over with some pepper spray or a tazer, let fly with one (or both!), and let the fun happen.
Then expect to spend the rest of your life in jail.
June and the first half of July are Black Bear Mating system. Black Bears are amorous for about six weeks every year. For the other forty-six weeks they are solitary creatures, except for the sow and her cubs.
The cub's mama probably sent him off on his own so that she could canoodle in privacy. One of the local papers this morning had a story about another 18 month old cub running through suburbia.
Yeah, West and North Vancouver are right up against a mountain with lots of forest.
It must have been reading FOOD IS THE BEST MEDICINE in which porrige is highly recommended. Or possibly Henry Miller who suggested that it inhibits constipation.
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